Quotes - C

"Pro sports are a tough business--whether you're in baseball, football, or something else. But when you're running around the bases after hitting a home run or jumping up and down after a touchdown, a little boy comes to the surface." - Roy Campanella

"Yankees tradition is Robert Merrill belting out the national anthem in full operatic voice. Padres tradition is Roseanne grabbing her crotch after singing the national anthem." - Steve Campbell (Albany Times Union reporter), comparing the history of the 1998 World Series participants.

"There's no person alive who got his money's worth better than my old man." - Skip Caray

"I did it for the wife and kids." - Eddie Cicotte, on his participation in the 1919 "Black Sox" World Series fix, Chicago White Sox pitcher

"I refuse to call a 52 year old man Sparky." - Al Clark, umpire, on Sparky Anderson

"With grace and steely determination, he pushed open a door that should never have been closed and held it open for the countless talented young men and women who followed him." - President Bill Clinton, on Jackie Robinson, April 15, 1997

"In Chicago, Harry was a larger-than-life symbol of baseball and like all Chicagoans, I valued him not only for his contributions to the game but also his love and zest for life. ... Nobody could sing 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game' like he could. And I hope he's doing a seventh-inning rendition in heaven." - First Lady Hillary Clinton, on Harry Caray, February 18, 1998

"Pro-rated at 500 at-bats per year, my 1,081 strike-outs would mean that for 2 years out of the 14 I played, I never touched the ball." - Norm Cash

"I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats." - Norm Cash, First Baseman for the White Sox and Tigers 1958-74

"I think a baseball field must be the most beatiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment." - Lowell Cohn in "The Temple of Baseball" (1981)

"I wasn't scared. I just told them to give me all that hockey equipment." - Roger Clemens, who wore Mo Vaughn's forearm pad and Kevin Mitchell's shinguard to get his first major-league hit, after a series of shifts put the DH in left field, forcing the Boston pitcher to bat.

"I thought I had it. I was twisting around like this. It grazed my glove, hit me on the head, and bounced over. I'll be on ESPN for about a month." - Jose Canseco

"Raise the urinals." - Darrel Chaney on how management could keep the Braves on their toes

"This boy throws so fast you can't see 'em and he knows where he is throwing, because if he didn't there would be dead bodies all over Idaho." - Joe Cantillion, on Walter Johnson before joining the Washington Senators

"I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps in the other direction. It goes right by his glove and I laugh." - Rod Carew

"If a Latin player or even an American Negro is sick, they say it is all in the head. Felipe Alou once went to his team doctor and the doctor said, 'You don't have anything.' So he went to a private doctor and the doctor said, 'You have a broken foot.'" - Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh Pirates OF

"I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give." - Roberto Clemente

"I have never slept under the same roof with a nigger, and I'm not going to start here in my own native state of Georgia." - Ty Cobb, on sleeping in the same hunting lodge as Babe Ruth, who Cobb believed to be part black.

"I think being able to play the infield, especially shortstop, is something you are born with. You can't learn it." - David Concepcion

"How do you say, "Adios" in Spanish?" - Clay Carrol, former Reds reliever

"If you're not having fun in baseball, you miss the point of everything." - Chris Chambliss

"At night time, you just try to keep him out of jail." - David Cone (New York Yankees pitcher), on teammate David "Boomer" Wells.

"The guys put their careers on the line. One pitch could have blown out their arms. You hear the rap people put on the modern-day player -- I, I, I and me, me, me -- well, this series (1995 Division playoffs between New York and Seattle) was anything but that. If this doesn't do a lot to diminish the greedy ballplayer image, I don't know what will." - David Cone, Yankees pitcher

"There are Opening Day pitchers and pitchers who start on Opening Day." - Roger Lee Craig, San Francisco Giants manager