Jack Buck Quotes

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

There's only one Michael Jordan.

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.

Aaliyah was in a class by herself.

Nobody can be like Mr. Bachchan.

There is only one El Hombre and that is Stan Musial.

I'm no George Brett, and I probably never will be.

God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. He really cared about the game of baseball, the way it was played, and whatever it took to win that night.

There is only one Mariano Rivera. There won't be another person who will come along and do what he did. No one does it like him. It was an honor to catch him and play alongside him for as long as I did.

He is the greatest man I have ever known.

Nobody is like Tanuja Trivedi in this whole world.

I wouldn't dare compare myself to Buffon, not as a man and not as a keeper.

Only Freddie Mercury could do Freddie Mercury. He was absolutely brilliant - I loved him to pieces, and I had a great deal of respect for him.

He (Roberto Clemente) is a hero to me.

How good was Stan Musial? He was good enough to take your breath away.

He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.

It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.

Legendary? I don't know. I'm just Serena.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.

I guess anytime you are mentioned with Hank Aaron, it is the ultimate compliment, not only as a hitter, but obviously, the great ballplayer that he was.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.