Sandy Koufax
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"Sanford "Sandy" Koufax" is a retired American baseball player. A left-handed pitcher, he played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the Los Angeles Dodgers/Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, from 1955 to 1966. He retired at the peak of his career, and in 1972 became the youngest player ever elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, aged 36 years and 20 days.

Koufax's career peaked with a run of six outstanding seasons from to , before arthritis in his left elbow ended his career prematurely at age 30. He was named the National League's MLB Most Valuable Player award/Most Valuable Player in . He also won the 1963, , and 1966 Cy Young Awards by unanimous votes, making him the first three-time Cy Young winner in baseball history and the only one to win three times when the award was for all of baseball, not just one league. In each of his Cy Young seasons, Koufax won the triple crown (baseball)/pitcher's triple crown by leading the NL in win (baseball)/wins, strikeouts, and earned run average. Koufax's totals would also have led the American League in those seasons.

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I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.