"It's a feeling of complete despair. You're angry. You're scared. You're in shock. And you're pissed off. For years, people took it for granted we'd never have a tragedy of this magnitude on American soil. It's a completely sad day for the victims -- and everybody."

"It's ridiculous how somebody can do something like that. It's absolutely insane. There are a lot of people that should worry about what's going to happen from here. They say it's the biggest attack on United States soil since Pearl Harbor. That's scary. When there has never been a terrorist attack of this magnitude, you have to wonder how much the United States can take and what kind of actions it can take from here."

"It's very petty to even think about playing a baseball game at this point. ... Thousands of lives have been lost. I'd imagine we'll take swift action to find out who did this. I think everybody is focused on that and not something as unimportant as a few September baseball games."

"When it originally happened, around 10 o'clock in the morning, my brother told me papers from the World Trade Center were flying all over his neighborhood in Brooklyn. My brother said, 'Wake up. The baseball world is not the only thing going on. Things are burning everywhere.' It just didn't seem real. At this point, it still doesn't seem real. The Manhattan skyline will never be the same. No matter what they put up in its place, it will never be the same. Those were the buildings you always saw when you were growing up."

"It was scary, it was 10:45 (a.m.) and the hotel security knocked on my door and said the hotel was being evacuated. I was running down the stairs. My heart was racing. You're thinking all kinds of things really. Then you see the rest of the guys in the parking lot. It was real quiet. It's a very ugly situation ... the realm of baseball is very insignificant right now. Whether we play (last night or tonight) is the furthest thing from my mind. When you see people who don't know if their family is alive or dead, when you see what happened, you can't think of baseball."

"The country is in mourning, and we are the country's entertainment. I don't know if the country wants to be entertained right now."

"It's the most tragic thing I have ever seen. We were in New York a week ago and to see the Twin Towers all the time, it's unbelievable. It's scary. It's like the entire country is living in fear right now."

"There's no reason we should be playing baseball after all of this tragedy. Baseball should be the last thing on our minds. Even if I were to pitch, I don't know if I could have done it. I don't know if I could have concentrated."

"I (went) out to get coffee and walked out on 42nd Street. I could see the smoke and both towers were still up. I went another block or two and people were standing in the street, looking down there. And then you just heard, 'Oh, my goodness!' and all of a sudden the whole tower just collapsed. All those poor people. It was hard to watch."

"The whole world is shocked. It doesn't matter where you are. If this doesn't affect you, you don't have a heart."

"We aren't playing any baseball for a while. You can't think about baseball. Baseball is a game. This is life. This is serious. America is in shambles, but they'll get it together."

"This is unbelievable. The world is under attack. It's good to shut down baseball. There's no happiness in what's going on. Why play baseball or any other sport? Today is a day where you sit back and pray for the families who are losing family members to these wackos."

"There will still be people trapped in buildings when we're playing games. Where could police do the most good, guarding a football stadium, where you know security will be heightened, or sifting through rubble searching for survivors? Especially in New York."