“Sammy and I have been really close since 1986, when he was 16 years old. He didn't make the Rookie League team so I took him to extended spring. This kid ... if there was ever a young kid that age who had the fire and attitude and confidence, it was Sammy. He always worked hard and he always believed he was going to be a big-league player. That's why he was able to do the things he did in baseball. He's a good man, and I hate to see him retire.”
Rudy Jaramillo
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.”
W.B. Yeats
“I know Sammy, so I was playing with him a little bit. But when you see that situation like that (one-on-one coverage by a backup cornerback), that just tells you that obviously they must really think that I can't play football. You're making a big mistake in that coverage.”
Keyshawn Johnson
“My hero when I was a boy was Sammy Baugh, who was in the pros already, but he came from a little town near where I grew up.”
Bob Lilly
“[Neither Dusty Baker or Sammy Sosa would comment on their closed-door meeting, prompted by Baker's earlier statement that Sosa was] sensitive ... you just can't lose him psychologically and spiritually.”
Sammy Sosa
“I am not the reincarnation of Sammy Davis Jr.”
Nancy Cartwright
“`That's rather a sudden pull up, ain't it, Sammy?' inquired Mr Weller. `Not a bit on it,' said Sam; `she'll vish there wos more, and that's the great art o' letter writin'.'”
Charles Dickens
