Baseball Player

🇺🇸Billy Crystal

Entertainment

b. 1948

"When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, "What's he doing hitting the government?"

🇺🇸George H. W. Bush

Politics

1924–2018

"I think there's a Trojan horse lurking in the weeds, ready to pull a fast one on the American people, and I simply am not going to let that happen."

🇺🇸Deion Sanders

Psychology

b. 1967

"You got a resident corner here... Shut-down corner. Now it's gotta be one or the other. If you ain't gotta tackle, you'd better cover. If you ain't gotta cover, you'd better tackle. THEY AIN'T DOIN' NOTHING"

🇺🇸John Kruk

Journalism

b. 1961

"No mascots on the field. Shoot anything that looked like it escaped from Sesame Street."

🇺🇸Tommy Lasorda

1927–2021

"Manny Mota and Vic Davalillo have 100 years between them. The average age of our bench is deceased."

🇺🇸Casey Stengel

Sports

1890–1975

"Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in."

🇺🇸Sandy Koufax

b. 1935

"I know I was faster 10 years ago. I think Jim Maloney, Bob Veale, Bob Gibson and perhaps one or two others throw faster. In my best days I don't think I threw faster than Ryne Duren. He was the fastest I ever saw."

🇺🇸Mario Cuomo

Politics

1932–2015

"Text Cuomo's Address at the University of Notre Dame - Religious Belief and Public Morality"

🇺🇸Lou Gehrig

Sports

1903–1941

"So I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for."

🇺🇸Zane Grey

Literature

1872–1939

"If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago."

🇺🇸Stephen Crane

Literature

Naturalism

1871–1900

"It was surprising that Nature had gone tranquilly on with her golden process in the midst of so much devilment."

🇺🇸Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Law

1866–1944

"Why should God wish to take a thoroughbred like Matty so soon, and leave some others down here that could well be spared?"

🇺🇸Billy Sunday

Literature

1862–1935

"Going to church don’t make anybody a Christian Any more than taking a wheelbarrow into a garage make it an automobile."

🇺🇸Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)

Journalism

b. 1949

"Because I think she's run by far-left elements in this country. I feel bad for the woman."

🇺🇸Bill Richardson

Politics

1947–2023

"Make no mistake, the point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message to business."

🇺🇸Lynn Compton

Law

1921–2012

"Secrets have power over us. Only when secrets are revealed can truth be known and freedom brought about."