Baltimore Orioles Quotes

Opening Day was a big thing. I came to a lot of Orioles games. I grew up a couple blocks from here, so I was always coming down to the stadium. I always made it down for Opening Day until I was a little bit older and I had ball. But when I was younger, I always missed school.

When I was with the Yankees in 1978, we were playing Baltimore at Yankee Stadium, and the score was 3 - 3 going into the bottom of the ninth inning. I led off against Tippy Martinez - a little left-hander who always gave me trouble - and the count went to three-and-oh.

I'll have a stamp on me forever. There will always be questions. I brought new fans to the Orioles' organization, and that's good.

Every time you put on an Oriole uniform, it's always a great blessing, and you always want that opportunity to put that on.

The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.

Enos Cabell started out here with the Astros, and before that he was with the Orioles.

I wanted to show Baltimore that they were getting a good ballplayer.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

In the glory days of Orioles, when I was a newbie baseball writer for the Post, the roster of talkers was as good as the everyday lineup. Singy - Ken Singleton - Flanny, and Cakes - the underwear spokesman Jim Palmer - were my go-to guys, occupying stalls along one wall of the shabby chic clubhouse.

I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.

I'm an everything Baltimore fan.

I remember, when I was growing up in Baltimore, we'd get on a streetcar and go down to see the Orioles, and for a couple of bucks, you could get a pretty good seat. Kids can't do that anymore. So I think that changes the whole nature of sports.

When I was covering games, and this is back in the '60s, you'd go into the manager's office. I can still visualize Earl Weaver from the Baltimore Orioles. I can just see Earl now in his underwear... with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other, holding court. And that was the way it was done then.

All of my buddies and I wanted to be Cal Ripken.

I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training.

I grew up in Baltimore.

I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he's a good guy.