Richie Ashburn Quotes

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

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

George Steinbrenner forever changed baseball and hopefully someday we will see him honored in baseball's Hall of Fame as one of the great figures in the history of sports.

To wind up in Cooperstown is surreal for me. To go into the Hall of Fame is one thing. When you think of all the other Yankees that are in here, it's pretty special. This is just a shrine. To visit it, much less be inducted, it's still sort of unbelievable to me.

I got snubbed about eight times for the Mid-Summer Classic, and I know what type of career I had, and I know that I'm a true All-Star. The selection process is not very accurate.

I know that there are no famous 'Doug Harvey plays.' And I'm proud of that.

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 will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?

I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.

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

I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.

The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.

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.

Tom Seaver was let loose twice by the Mets and pitched a no-hitter for the Reds and won his 300th game for the White Sox, but he wears a Mets cap in the Hall of Fame as homage to the 1969 championship.

And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.

To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

I'm not a sportswriter. I don't get to vote. I don't get the ballot in the mail, so it's out of my hands either way. I can say that in the history of the Hall of Fame, there are no suspicions about guys who are in the Hall of Fame.

When you think about a Hall of Fame player, you think about someone who impacted the game, someone you had to game plan for.

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

I hope by the time that I'm done in this game, I can have half the numbers Stan Musial had in his career.

I don't know why Roger (Maris) isn't in the hall of fame. To me, he was as good as there ever was.

I think that Jim Rice should be in the Hall of Fame. I think that Craig Nettles should be in the Hall of Fame and he didn't even get a sniff.