Bill Dedman Quotes

I always tried to be Mark McGwire and hit homers like he did. I was kind of following his race, too, when he was trying to break the record.

Mark (McGwire) is the man.

God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.

There's only one Mark McGwire. The man walked over 160 times. Just think. If he walks 60 times, he might hit 100 homers.

Jackie Robinson is a true legend.

Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.

They said you'd really have to be something to be like Babe Ruth. But Babe Ruth was an American player. What we needed was a Puerto Rican player they could say that about, someone to look up to and try to equal.

There's absolutely no comparisons to me or anyone else to Willie Mays. Willie Mays, he's the greatest baseball player of all time.

Babe Ruth is an icon, in sports and in our society.

To this day, with all of these muscle-bound guys, nobody hit the ball further than Mickey Mantle, with his natural strength.

Pete Rose is baseball.

Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

When I was working on the unauthorized biography 'Stan Musial: An American Life,' which came out in 2011, old opponents recalled how Musial knew their names after they had been in the majors only a few days.

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

Love me or hate me, Scary Spice is back.

Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.

There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate.

I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.

Well, you know, Pudge Rodriguez, obviously is as good as it gets.