Steve Garvey Quotes

When I came into baseball, I had one goal for my career - the Hall of Fame.

I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

It was much more fun playing with him than against him. If you wanted one pitcher to start the seventh game of the World Series, which he did in 1945, you'd pick Hal Newhouser.

I really want to have a possibility of going into the Hall of Fame one day. I think that's huge with a lot of baseball writers and old school guys. Of course, that's not the main goal - the main goal is winning a World Series. Hall of Fame is so far away. It's just something I've always thought about doing. I want to be as clean as I can.

I don't want to be one of those great players who never made it to the Series.

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

Baseball needs more superstars.

When I started playing the game of baseball, the more I played and the better numbers I got, the more I started thinking about the Hall of Fame. But I never thought I had a chance to be there.

Career highlights? I had two - I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.

I think all major league players dream of being named MVP.

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.

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

The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams.

I don't plan on writing biographies of great sports stars who are still playing ball. But I did write one on Jackie Robinson, who was playing ball in the 20th century.

I played with 11 Hall of Famers and played against 52 Hall of Famers, and I don't know any of them linked to steroids.

I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays.

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.

I'm proud of everything that I've accomplished since I was a little boy. That was my dream - to be a ballplayer. I didn't dream to win so many Gold Gloves, or Silver Bats or play in All-Star Games or World Series. I was just dreaming to play the game.

I was a big Dave Winfield guy growing up.