Baseball Quotes: They said it

“Do I feel like it should be stripped? I mean, yeah, I do. I feel like it should be, but that’s not for me to decide, you know?”

—The Dodgers’ Matt Kemp, who finished second to Ryan Braun in voting for National League most valuable player in 2011, on whether Braun deserves the prize after being suspended for the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

“Sandy Koufax teases me, or did one time. He said, ‘Why weren’t you smart enough to come up with that 10 years before and I think it could be called the Koufax operation?’ ”

—Surgeon Frank Jobe, who perfected the reconstructive elbow procedure known as Tommy John surgery that has saved hundreds of careers. His work was honored by the baseball Hall of Fame on Saturday.