Leon Day Quotes

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

The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind.

Yeah, I think about the Hall of Fame.

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

If you look at some of the people in the Hall of Fame, my numbers are compatible.

The Hall of Fame is pretty good at preparation and getting you ready for what to expect.

I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.

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

As a player you get to meet Hall of Fame members and now to have my name in the same sentence makes me speechless.

I'm trying to leave a legacy, man. I'm trying to get a gold jacket someday. That's my mindset.

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.

Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.

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.

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.

In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.

You have to retire before you can make the Hall of Fame.

I want to be a Hall of Famer, have an impact on my franchise, and you can do all of that by winning a championship.

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

Being in the Hall of Fame is where any player wants to be at the end of his career. It's somewhat of a last step for a player in terms of their career, and it's a place where you'll always be remembered for what you accomplished.

It feels so good to be the World Athlete of the Year.

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

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.

My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.

I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.