Sandy Koufax Quotes

Some great players, like Ted Williams and Stan Musial, had one more great hitting season left around the age of 40.

I had some great role models along the way. My on-field heroes were the great Ernie Banks, Billy Williams, and Willie Mays. I wanted to be like them on the field, and I am so damn proud to join them in the Hall of Fame.

Nothing extraordinary happens to a cricketer if you time his career - which is very short.

It would mean a lot to me to get into the Hall of Fame, to be grouped with some of the greatest players in history.

You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.

It's an honor to play on the same team as some of the best players in the history of the game.

You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game.

Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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.

You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.

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

I think a great athlete transcends eras.

They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion.

If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.

I knew that I wasn't a first-ballot Hall-of-Fame inductee.

I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson.

I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a great team, one of the greatest ever organized.

The difference between the good players and the great is how long they stay in their prime.

I'm not going to sit here and dwell on whether or not I am going to the Hall of Fame.

I think about all the time how I'll be able to say that during my career, I played with the greatest players of my era. Hopefully, I'll be able to say I won championships with those players.

I always found it a great challenge playing against Michael Jordan, to play against Magic Johnson, to play against Larry Bird, to play against all those good players because it's something that you can take away from it.

It is a very humbling honor to be selected as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.

The three-peat has never been attempted, ever, and for me, I think it will add to my legendary status. I want to become one of the greatest athletes ever to have competed in any sport, so for me, that's what it means.

Number 7 is a legendary number, many great players who have worn it. I hope I could do credit in the field with this number.