Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Quotations/Quotes by Hank Aaron (born February 5, 1934)

Babe Ruth never had to contend with anything like that when he was establishing his record.

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Can I smoke now without someone taking my picture?

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Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

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Discover Greatness: An Illustrated History of Negro Leagues Baseball,

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Does Pete (Rose) hustle? Before the All-Star game he came into the clubhouse and took off his shoes and they ran another mile without him.

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Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.

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I can't recall a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth.

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I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

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I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

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I don't want them to forget Ruth, I just want them to remember me!

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I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

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I hope that these kids are given an opportunity to play, because whatever happened before, they had nothing to do with it. I just hope they have an opportunity to compete. They really deserve to. They have some great ballplayers in Cuba.

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I hope those players in Cuba will have a chance to compete in it. I hope politics don't get involved in this thing like it does everything else.

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I knew his father very well. And yes, I think I would owe it not only to Barry. I owe it to his father to respect everything that this young man has accomplished.

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I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

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I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

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I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

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I think it's very much a distraction to the ball club, and that is a cancer, you just get done playing the best team in baseball, the team has been playing very well, despite everything ... it's just a distraction, and it is a cancer,

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I think of this award as being what we call 'The Year of the Complete Ballplayer,' ... The player that has done the most not only for his team, but has done most to help his team win baseball games. Not only for home runs, runs batted in and batting average, but also in the clubhouse.

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I think what the commissioner is trying to do is trying to put an end to all of this. I know people have said, 'Where is this investigation going, and what purpose?' But I think he's trying to put an end to it.

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I want to applaud the commissioner, and I also just want to make sure that whatever we do, we make sure that we clean up baseball.

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I'm here to support the commissioner and tougher drug penalties.

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I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him.

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I'm not thinking about Barry right now. I've answered those questions.

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In baseball, there is something electrifying about the big leagues. I had read so much about (Stan) Musial, (Ted) Williams and (Jackie) Robinson. I had put those guys on a pedestal. They were something special. I really thought they put their pants on different, rather than one leg at a time.

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It makes me feel good to walk through there and know that some of the things that Negro League players played for has been preserved, and people can go in there, and look at it.

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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

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Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.

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Leo, if I'm not calling you, everything's fine. If I'm calling you all the time, something isn't right.

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My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

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[Not only will he break Hank Aaron 's record of 755 career home runs, he will blow it away. No less an authority than Aaron himself called him] the greatest ballplayer that has ever played the game -- bar none. ... I'm serious about this. I've watched him play and, quite naturally, people are going to start assuming that he's doing certain things. Let's forget about that. This guy is in a world of his own. They try to compare Babe Ruth and say Babe Ruth was this. There's no comparison.

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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.

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Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

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That's going to be left up to the commissioner and the rules committee. They would probably have to go back and look at some of those things that happened.

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The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

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This is wonderful, no doubt about it. You can tell by the fans that it's catching on and is going to get better and better.

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To this day, I don't know how he withstood the things he did without lashing back. I've been through a lot in my time, and I consider myself to be a patient man, but I know I couldn't have done what Jackie did. I don't think anybody else could have done it. Somehow, though, Jackie had the strength to suppress his instincts, to sacrifice his pride for his people.

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We need to be concerned about young people . . . if we don't protect them, how are we going to protect this country?

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Yogi (Berra), I came up here to hit, not to read." 1958 World Series answer to Berra after being told to turn his bat around so he could 'read' the label and not break the bat.

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You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail.

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You got to play a hundred and fifty games a year, so pick your spots. You can miss two games a month; so pick the days you're gonna be hurt, or you're gonna rest or you're gonna have a drink or two. The rest of the time, be on that field.

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Quotes About Hank Aaron

"(Hank) Aaron's excellence was not expelled in blinding bursts of energy, but rather played out, patiently and inexorably, over a whole generation."

Quotations/Quotes to Hank Aaron by Lonnie Wheeler in I Had A Hammer

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"As far as I'm concerned, (Hank) 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."

Quotations/Quotes to Hank Aaron by Mickey Mantle

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"Henry Aaron is simply smarter than all the pitchers. He deceives pitchers. One of his secrets is his slow manner, he puts pitchers to sleep."

Quotations/Quotes to Hank Aaron by Ernie Johnson

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"I don't know where Hank Aaron will break (Babe) Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.

Quotations/Quotes to Hank Aaron by Eddie Mathews

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"I'm mad at Hank (Aaron) for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another."

Quotations/Quotes to Hank Aaron by Bill 'Spaceman' Lee

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"I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years. I only had four or five good years."

Quotations/Quotes to Hank Aaron by Sandy Koufax

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"More than anyone else, he's (Hank Aaron) made me wish I wasn't a manager."

Quotations/Quotes to Hank Aaron by Walter Alston

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"My boy has a chance to do it. He takes care of himself and nothing comes in front of baseball for Henry (Aaron). Nothing. On days when he is feeling good, it's just too bad for the pitchers."

Quotations/Quotes to Hank Aaron by Estella Aaron (Aaron's Mother)

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"Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing."

Quotations/Quotes to Hank Aaron by Roger Maris

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"(Babe Ruth) never played a night game, he never hit against fireball relief pitching, he never traveled cross-country for a night game and played a day game the next day, he never performed before millions of television viewers, he never had to run on artificial turf. It is the changes in the game, the modern factors that have made the game more difficult, that bring Babe (Ruth) in here as number three, behind (Willie) Mays and Hank (Aaron). His feats were heroic. So were theirs. They simply did them under tougher conditions."

Quotations/Quotes to Hank Aaron by Maury Allen

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"Trying to throw a fastball by Henry Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster."

Quotations/Quotes to Hank Aaron by Curt Simmons

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"When Henry (Aaron) came up, I heard fans yell, 'Hit that nigger. Hit that nigger.' Henry hit the ball up against the clock. The next time he came up, the said 'Walk him, walk him."

Quotations/Quotes to Hank Aaron by Herb Aaron (Aaron's Father)

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