"Championship baseball teams are not founded on bats. They're built on a backbone of catching, pitching, a second-base combination and a center field."

"Carl Mays wasn't very popular, but when nobody else could win, he could. He was a great stopper." - Duffy Lewis

"No pitcher in the American League resorted to trickery more than Carl Mays in attempting to rough a ball, in order to get a break on it which would make it difficult to hit." — Umpires Billy Evans and Bill Dinneen in a written statement made after the beaning death of Cleveland Shortsop Ray Chapman

"Whatever criticism you may make about Mays, he has more guts than any pitcher I ever saw." - Everett Scott