“I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning.

I think about it all day and I dream about it at night.

The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it”

- Carl Yastrzemski

Hall of Famer, AL MVP, Triple Crown, 18-time All-Star and AS MVP, 7-time Gold Glove, and 3,000 Hit Club.

“You always get a special kick on opening day,

no matter how many you go through.

You think something wonderful is going to happen”

- Joe DiMaggio

Hall of Famer, 3-time MVP, 9-time World Series Champion, 13-time All-Star, and record 56-game hitting streak.

“The two most important things in my life:

good friends and a strong bullpen”

- Bob Gibson

Hall of Famer, 2-time World Series Champion and WS MVP, 9-time All Star, NL MVP, 2 Cy Young's and 9 Gold Gloves. 

“Players have two things to do.

Play and keep their mouths shut.”

- Sparky Anderson

Hall of Famer, 3-time Manager World Series Champion (both Leagues), 2-time AL Manager of the Year and 2,194 career Wins (MLB Rank #6).

“Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa”

- Casey Stengel

Hall of Famer, Manager-Player, 8-time World Series Champion, and 1,905 Wins (MLB Rank #11). 

“Every day is a new opportunity.

You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again.

That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is”

- Bob Feller

Hall of Famer, World Series Champion, 8-time All Star, Triple Crown, 6-time leader in Wins and 7-time in Strikeouts, 3 No-hitters. 

“The good thing about Opening Day,

at the end of the day, it counts.

It's in the record”

- Jimmy Rollins

NL MVP, 3-time All-Star, World Series Champion, 4-time Gold Glove, and 20-20-20-20 Club.

“The only bad thing about winning the pennant,

is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year.

I'd rather go fishing for three days.”

- Whitey Herzog

Hall of Famer, World Series Champion, and Manager of the Year.