Juan Pablo Galavis Quotes

Pete Rose may not make the Hall of Fame, but a statue of him is going to be erected outside the Cincinnati Reds ballpark.

Ted Williams is one of the best hitters ever to play the game, and I didn't get a chance to see him play, so all I could do was read books and look at pictures.

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

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

If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

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.

When there were just eight teams in each of the big leagues, I was always told, 'It's hard to come up, but it's just hard to stay in the big leagues.' That's because there's always somebody. The Cardinals had so many minor league clubs and had so many good ballplayers.

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.

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

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.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'

Baseball needs more superstars.

I was a huge fan of Bobby Cox, a huge fan of Chipper Jones and John Smoltz. And just those guys, I grew up watching those guys and often wondered early on in my career if I would ever have the chance to play for the Atlanta Braves, and there it was. God kind of answered my prayers.

Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship - and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.

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

Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.

Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.

I was a big Dave Winfield guy growing up.

The Oakland A's, I loved all my teammates there. I loved all the coaches. They gave me the opportunity to play in the big leagues. And for that, I thank them. I mean it was a dream come true for me.

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