Alabama Quote by Monte Irvin

If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line…

— Mickey Mantle

Willie Mays was the best baseball player I ever saw. He could do anything.

— Doug Harvey

I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived.

— Monte Irvin

I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson.

— Monte Irvin

As much as I loved Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Junior Gilliam, and Don Newcombe, I loved watching Willie Mays play more than all of…

— Cheech Marin

You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen…

— Monte Irvin

Leo Durocher was our manager and he brought Willie up to me and said, 'This is Willie Mays and he's your new roommate.' You…

— Monte Irvin

I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.

— Jerry Coleman

[On Willie Mays] He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home…

— Warren Spahn

The Negro League had some of the best players in history. Satchel Paige was probably one of the best pitchers in the history of…

— Mark Kurlansky

Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head.…

— David Duchovny

“Vic Wertz once hit a ball rather famously that was later described as such: 'It would have been a home run in any other…

— Tucker Elliot