Eddie Mathews Quotes

I was a big sports fan, and I had been closely monitoring Hank Aaron's home run totals since I was a kid playing on the sandlot adjacent to the Foundry and Machine Company in Batavia, Illinois.

I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.

Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another.

I think that baseball as a whole, I am a huge romantic when it comes to the history and the stats and the numbers the stories behind it, so I would consider myself a pretty big fan.

Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

Cleveland is my hometown, and the Indians have a narrow but rich history.

That is where I got my childhood memories, watching the Home Run Derby as a kid. Maybe some kids are watching me. I would like to return that.

Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past.

Baseball is better with tradition, with history. Baseball is better with fans who care.

I don't really know football from the Seventies and Eighties. It's all myths and legends to me.

The greatest thing I ever saw was Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record.

I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.

I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.

Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

Baseball needs more superstars.

In 2007, I hit 50 home runs. That was pretty cool. I never thought I'd be able to do that. At the time, I didn't even think it was that big of a deal for some reason. But now, looking back, I realize it was pretty cool.

Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!

Then the Angels came in 1961, and I fell in love with them.

At a book festival in Fort Lauderdale, I met David Eisenhower, Ike's grandson, who was promoting his book 'Going Home to Glory: A Memoir of Life with Dwight D. Eisenhower,' in which he describes attending the Yankees' 154th game in 1961. The whole family had been following Mantle and Maris chase Babe Ruth's home run record across the country.

Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.

I hit a home run in my first game, and they told me to go into the stands and pass my cap around. I made six dollars in nickels, dimes, and quarters.

I went to my first game May 30, 1956, and Mantle was in the beginnings of his Triple Crown season. And he was drop-dead handsome.