"I don't want to win my three-hundredth game while he's (Earl Weaver) still here. He'd take credit for it."

"I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training." Source: Late Innings (Roger Angell)

"I read where Roger Clemens said it was a goal of his. To me, that's like planning for the ninth inning when you're in the first. I don't know many players who have set out to make the Hall of Fame, and I've played with both Frank (Robinson) and Brooks Robinson. I remember talking to Brooks about it one time, and it was like it hadn't even occurred to him. If Brooks Robinson didn't have the right to think about it, who did?"

"Most pitchers are too smart to manage."

"The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it."

"There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether."

"Two weeks, maybe three. You never know with psychosomatic injuries You have to take your time with them."

"Cakes (Palmer) has won two-hundred forty games, but it took a picture of him standing in his underwear to get nationally known." - Mike Flanagan

"I don't know how to say this, but for a guy who's going to be in the Hall of Fame, your mechanics are awful." - University of Miami Coach Lazaro Collazo when helping Jim Palmer attempt a late comeback

"Jim (Palmer) knows how to rise to the occasion, plus Jim Palmer will be in the Hall of Fame, and it's hard to go wrong when you pitch a Hall of Famer." - Earl Weaver

"(Jim) Palmer is the greatest 'situation' pitcher I've ever seen. He makes them beat him on a single and one run at a time. Most of the homers he gives up are solos because he only works to their power when the bases are empty." - Ray Miller

"The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back' and 'The Year of the Elbow.' This year it's the 'Year of the Ulnar Nerve.' Someone once asked me if I had any physical incapacities of my own. 'Sure I do,' I said. 'One big one - Jim Palmer.' " - Earl Weaver