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Known by the nickname \"the Ryan Express,\" he was selected as a Major League Baseball All-Star and earned The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Award among his professional honors. He also received a place on the Major League Baseball All-Century Team, a distinction that set him alongside the most recognized players in the sport's history.\n\nRyan retired from playing in 1993. In the years that followed, he did not step far from the game. He served as chief executive officer of the Texas Rangers and later as an executive advisor to the Houston Astros, extending his involvement in professional baseball into the front office after a long tenure on the field. Beyond baseball, Ryan pursued work as a banker and was recognized by institutions tied to his home state, receiving both the Texas Trail of Fame award and the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame award.\n\nHis Hall of Fame induction in 1999 came in the first year he was eligible for consideration — a relatively rare outcome that reflected the breadth of what he had accomplished across his 27 seasons. That induction, along with his placement on the All-Century Team, stands as the most concrete measure of how his career has been assessed by the sport's governing institutions. Born Lynn Nolan Ryan Jr., he remains a figure whose formal recognitions trace a career that stretched from the late 1960s through 1993 and continued, in a different form, well beyond his final game.","In 1999, on his first year of eligibility, Nolan Ryan was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum — a recognition that arrived as a kind of formal punctuation to a career that had already written its own terms across nearly three decades of professional baseball.","nolan-ryan",null,[14],{"tag_id":15,"tag_name":16,"tag_count":17},16239,"baseball",6,{"quotes":19,"pagination":81},[20,27,33,39,45,51,57,63,69,75],{"id":21,"quote_text":22,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":23,"author":24,"source":25,"quote_tag":26,"commentary":12},3319290,"I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I’d have to go home in the wintertime and get a job.",false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":28,"quote_text":29,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":23,"author":30,"source":31,"quote_tag":32,"commentary":12},3319289,"And then when I went to stay in ’68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":34,"quote_text":35,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":23,"author":36,"source":37,"quote_tag":38,"commentary":12},3319278,"I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. 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I felt like a nickel.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":46,"quote_text":47,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":23,"author":48,"source":49,"quote_tag":50,"commentary":12},3319264,"Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher’s target, the hitter and my perfect delivery.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":52,"quote_text":53,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":23,"author":54,"source":55,"quote_tag":56,"commentary":12},3319251,"And that’s what makes this a great game, is the support and the commitment that the fans give the game.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":58,"quote_text":59,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":23,"author":60,"source":61,"quote_tag":62,"commentary":12},3319237,"I’ve got a different perception now and it’s really enjoyable to be at this point in your life and be able to watch this.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":64,"quote_text":65,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":23,"author":66,"source":67,"quote_tag":68,"commentary":12},3319217,"When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn’t that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":70,"quote_text":71,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":23,"author":72,"source":73,"quote_tag":74,"commentary":12},3319190,"I can’t imagine Joe DiMaggio was a better all-around player than Dale Murphy.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":76,"quote_text":77,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":23,"author":78,"source":79,"quote_tag":80,"commentary":12},3319177,"Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there’s nothing surprising about lasting a long time.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"currentPage":82,"totalPages":83,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":84},1,7,10]