Jimmy Piersall, famous broadcaster with the White Sox and well-known for saying that he was “sane and had paper to prove it,” on hitting his 100th home run and running the bases backward: “That way I can see where I have been. I always know where I’m going.”
Pete Rose on the fastball of rookie Don Gullett, “Gullett’s the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.” And, speaking to Tony Perez, famous teammate of Rose’s, “How can anyone as slow as you pull a muscle?”