Alex Rodriguez Quotes

Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.

I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived.

I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.

When I was working on the unauthorized biography 'Stan Musial: An American Life,' which came out in 2011, old opponents recalled how Musial knew their names after they had been in the majors only a few days.

No player in baseball history worked harder, suffered more, or did it better than Andre Dawson. He's the best I've ever seen.

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

Whether or not anybody had invented the category in his lifetime, Babe Ruth was surely the Greatest Living Yankee almost immediately upon lofting home runs at the Polo Grounds, allowing the Yankees to build their own palace across the Harlem River.

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.

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

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

There will never be another Ronaldo 'Fenomeno.'

I want to be the LeBron James of baseball.

I've had an affinity for Michael Jordan. He's probably the greatest athlete in my generation.

Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some of the reasons kids would always say they want to grow up to be just like Derek Jeter.

I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.

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

Fans love McGwire for his powerful physique, for his on-field hugs of his son, the part-time bat boy. He is Big Mac, or Paul Bunyan in Cardinals red with a white-ash bat instead of an ax.

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

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

I did not choose necessarily on the basis of significance. If you have a vote for the most significant athlete, then you have Ali, then you have Babe Ruth, then you have Michael Jordan.

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.'

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'