Quotes - S

"The only good thing about playing in Cleveland is you don't have to make road trips there." - Richard Scheinblum, of the Cleveland Indians

"I'm never satisfied. I can't stand satisifaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection." - Mike Schmidt

"Good is not good when better is expected." - Vin Scully, LA announcer

"My elbow feels better after they gave me a chromosome shot." - Gary Serum, Minnesota Twins pitcher

"The wind has shifted 360 degrees." - Mike Shannon, broadcaster

"There's a full moon over Busch Stadium tonight. We hope there's a full moon where you are, too." - Mike Shannon

"There's a woman protecting herself from the sun with a carousel." - Mike Shannon

"Whenever I think of Milwaukee, I think of the American League. Hmm, Boston, Atlanta, weren't they the Browns, too?" - Mike Shannon

"Warming up for the Brewers is that lefthander they got from the Mets, Bill Pulitzer." - Mike Shannon

"Did they tell me how to pitch to (Ted) Williams? Sure they did. It was great advice, very encouraging. They said he had no weakness, won't swing at a bad ball, has the best eyes in the business, and can kill you with one swing; he won't hit at anything bad, but don't give him anything good." - Bobby Shantz, Philadelphia Athletics, on Ted Williams

"A baseball player never stops missing baseball. He just stops playing it." - Glenn Sheely, writer

"Tradition in St. Louis is Stan Musial coming into the clubhouse and making the rounds. Tradition in San Diego is Nate Colbert coming into the clubhouse and trying to sell you a used car." - pitcher Bob Shirley

"He'd go into the vault to get a nickel change." - St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Enos "Country" Slaughter, on general manager Branch Rickey, 1934

"The last time I saw anything like this I was playing for Tastee Freeze in the Little League." - Houston Astros pitcher Dave Smigh, after his team fell behind the Cincinnati Reds by 14 runs -- in the first inning.

"We've got a lot of new players on this team. But I don't think they're the right ones." - Ozzie Smith, then San Diego shortstop

"Baseball is dull only to dull minds." - Red Smith, columnist

"Today's game is always different from yesterday's game." - Red Smith, columnist

"Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection." - Red Smith, columnist

"For the first 60 feet it was a hell of a pitch." - Warren Spahn (Boston Braves pitcher), on Willie May's first home run.

"Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing." - Warren Spahn

"Ruth made a grave mistake when he gave up pitching. Working once a week, he might have lasted a long time and become a great star." - Tris Speaker, Cleveland Indians

"If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others. The American boy starts swinging a bat as soon as he can lift one." - Tris Speaker

"The Yankees Win! Thhhheeeee Yankees Win!" - John Sterling (radio announcer), on the New York Yankees winning game four of the 1998 World Series. Sterling ended each of the 125 Yankee wins that season with this line.

"They're probably making me look a whole lot smarter than I am." - Dave Stewart (San Diego Padres pitching coach), on the Padres pitching staff midway through the 1998 playoffs. The staff had allowed just nine runs in six playoff games.

"You want to be that guy. You want to be the pitcher who closes it down. You want to put your foot in their neck. I guess it would almost be like an assassin's mentality. Trevor has it for sure." - Dave Stewart (Padres' pitching coach), on closer Trevor Hoffman

"With most great players on other teams, you notice how great they are. But when they become teammates and you see them everyday, you notice the flaws. It is exactly the opposite with George Brett." - Jim Sundberg

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

"They give you a round bat, and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square." - Willie Stargell, on hitting

"If there is one thing that I can say about myself, it's that I was able to realize my potential in the game of baseball and hopefully also as a person. If through this scholarship, we can help even one young person realize his or her potential, then we have succeeded tremendously. It is a great honor to be associated with such a worthy and needy cause and I applaud this year's recipients for their achievements." - Willie Stargell, HOF'er, on awarding the first Willie Stargell Scholarship, April 22, 1998

"Trying to hit him (Sandy Koufax) was like trying to drink coffee with a fork." - Willie Stargell

"He's the leader on this team, I know when Baltimore let us have him, they thought they were giving us a problem. I'll take problems like that anytime." - George Steinbrenner (New York Yankees owner), on David Wells, after winning Game 5 in the 1998 ALCS series against the Indians.

"Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next." - George Steinbrenner

"He transcends any game and any team. Just as Jesse Owens was to track and field and Michael Jordan is to basketball, Mickey Mantle is to baseball. Great athletes like Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio transcend the game. They are heroes to every fan. Mickey Mantle certainly is one." - George Steinbrenner, Yankees owner, on Mickey Mantle

"Errors are part of my image. One night in Pittsburgh, thirty thousand fans gave me a standing ovation when I caught a hot dog wrapper on the fly." - Dick "Stonefingers" Stuart, First Baseman for the Phillies, Pirates, Mets, Dodgers, Angels and Red Sox in the sixties, on himself

"I am the most loyal player money can buy." - Don Sutton, Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics and California Angels

"Not true at all. Vaseline is manufactured right here in the United States." - Don Sutton, about the rumors that he uses a foreign substance on the ball

"I picked Casey Stengel on the strength of his freckles and blond hair." - Larry Sutton, the man who originally scouted Stengel

"I knew it would ruin my arm, but one year of 25-7 is worth five of 15-15." - Steve Stone

"What can you tell me I don't know? I know the bases are loaded. I know we are leading by one run. I know I have two balls on the batter. I know I have to throw a strike. I know I have to try." - Don Stanhouse, to Oriole pitching coach Ray Miller to cut short a 1984 mound visit.

"If we lost, I'd be eating my heart out. But since we won, I'll only eat one ventricle." - Ron Swoboda, on the 1969 Mets

Asked if he wanted a shrimp cocktail, Stone replied: "No thanks. I don't drink." - Jeff Stone