Famers Quotes

The Bears could play in this game every year. We have the most hall-of-famers. - Mike Brown

It was good to see us bounce back... You look at them, a bunch of Hall of Famers and All-Stars, and they're phenomenal. We've been hearing about that all year, but you get into September, and we've got the same record as them. - Scott Hatteberg

It was all about doing things right. If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen. That's what I loved most about the game, how a ground out to second with a man on second and nobody out was a great thing. In my day, if a guy came to spring training 20 pounds heavier than what he left, he was considered out of shape and was probably in trouble. He'd be under a microscope and the first time he couldn't beat out a base hit or missed a fly ball, he was probably shipped out. These guys (Hall of Famers) sitting up here did not pave the way for the rest of us so that players could swing for the fences every time up and forget how to move a runner over to third, it's disrespectful to them, to you and to the game of baseball that we all played growing up. Respect. - Ryne Sandberg

I wanted to play quarterback because I wanted to be the guy who had the ball in his hands all the time. But growing up, I was well aware of all the great quarterbacks and the tradition of Western Pennsylvania, and it was important for me to try and become a part of that. ... By no means am I comparing myself to the Hall of Famers who won Super Bowls because I still have a long, long way to go. - Tyler Palko

I don't know what's going to happen with these guys down the road when they become eligible for the Hall of Fame, ... But I know a lot of Hall of Famers don't think what they did was right, and I'm one of them. - Carlton Fisk

Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. - Wade Boggs

Around here, though, people don't treat me any differently. That's to be expected. I don't mind at all, being in the shadow of three Hall of Famers. I just want to learn all I can from them. - Reggie Lewis

[So the trip to Springfield comes at a good time to escape the uncertainty at home. Former players will be all around to thank him. Hall of Famers will be there to welcome him.] I'll come back Sunday ready to do what I need to do to make this team as good as it can be, ... The problems will be there when I get back. - Jim Calhoun