John McGraw Player Quotations

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.

If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.

I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.