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 * I'm not a big guy and hopefully kids could look at me and see that I'm not muscular and not physically imposing, that I'm just a regular guy. So if somebody with a regular body can get into the record books, kids can look at that. That would make me happy. &mdash; Seattle Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki (right), on his having, in the 2004 Major League Baseball season, displaced Saint Louis Browns first baseman George Sisler atop the enumeration of Major League players by most hits in a single season despite his measuring just 69 inches (1.75 metres) and weighing just 160 pounds (72.57 kilograms), and on the distinction betwixt his physique and those of others accused of doping
 * People say I don't have great tools. They say that I can't throw like Ellis Valentine or run like Tim Raines or hit with power like Mike Schmidt. Who can? I make up for it in other ways, by putting out a little bit more. That's my theory, to go through life hustling. In the big leagues, hustle usually means being in the right place at the right time. It means backing up a base. It means backing up your teammate. It means taking that headfirst slide. It means doing everything you can do to win a baseball game. &mdash; Cincinnati Reds second baseman Pete Rose, on his explanation for his professional success
 * The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws. &mdash; St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Rick Wise, on the 1973 implementation by the American League of Major League Baseball of a rule permitting another player to bat in place of a pitcher