“If a horse won’t eat it, I won’t play on it.” Dick Allen was known to be a strange angry, but talented team in the locker room. When asked about artificial turf, this is what he thought of it.
” Fifty years from now I’ll be just three inches of type in a record book.” Said by the a very humble Brooks Robinson in 1963. Well it’s 50 years later and he is still the best defensive player of all-time. He was wrong.
“I don’t want to win my 300th game while he’s still here. He’d take credit for it.” The Hall of Fame Oriole pitcher Palmer on his manager Earl Weaver, who emphasized heavenly on pitching to win. But, Palmer never got to 300 victories anyway.