53 Quotes by Harmon Killebrew

It must be nice for today's hitters when you don't have to worry about being thrown at. It's a whole different deal. When I played, getting knocked down was an accepted part of the game.

I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.

In baseball, you pack your uniform in the clubhouse after a ball game, and you see it hanging up in your locker when you get to your next city.

Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.

The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.

I always tried to watch the pitcher and his complete windup from the moment he had the ball in his glove all the way through his motion, and tried to follow it all the way out of his hand, all the way to home plate.

I don't think we've been together for a long time. I can't remember the last time, ... Right up until that final out of the seventh game, we still had a chance to win. It was a great World Series.

I don't want anybody cheating to get there, that's for sure. It's a shame, any cloud that hangs over baseball, and this is certainly a big, big cloud. It needs to get cleaned up.

He might not have looked good in a baseball uniform, but he made that uniform look good on him.