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BASEBALL QUOTES
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Dan Quisenberry: "Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself."
--- "Once I tried to drown myself with a shower nozzle after I gave up a homer in the ninth. I found out you can't."
--- "The batter still hits a grounder. But in this case the first bounce is 360 feet away." (On when his sinker stopped working)
--- "Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers."
--- "It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough."
--- On the best thing about baseball: "There's no homework."
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Bo Belinsky: "Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets, and the Liberty Bell."
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Moe Berg: "Good fielding and pitching, without hitting, or vice versa, is like Ben Franklin's half pair of scissors."
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Bill Bergen: "It was as if he was possessed. The ghosts got to him and never let him go."-on his late brother Marty shortly after he killed his family and them himself.
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Ping Bodie: I didn't room with him. I roomed with his suitcase. (On Babe Ruth)
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Bob Bowman: I'm not a villan...every pitcher in the league has been thanking me for hitting that son-of-a-bitch.-after Bowman beaned Joe Medwick.
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Eddie Cicotte: "I did it for the wife and kids." (On why he participated in the 1919 Scandle)
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Joe Dugan: "Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree."
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Jimmie Dykes: "The manager's toughest job is not calling the right play with the bases full and the score tied in an extra inning game. It's telling a ballplayer that he's through, done, finished."
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Dale Long: You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.
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Ron Luciano: "Throwing people out of a game is like learning to ride a bicycle--once you get the hang of it, it can be a lot of fun."
--- "No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family."
---"Umpire's Heaven is a place where he works third base every game. Home is where the heartache is."
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Billy Martin: "It seems to me the official rule book should be called the funny pages. It obviously doesn't mean anything. The rule book is only good for you when you go deer hunting and run out of toilet paper."
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Bobo Newsome: "He has a weakness for doubles" (Speaking About Joe DiMaggio during his 56 game hitting streak)
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Chico Ruiz: "Bench me or trade me."
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Eric Show: You can pitch a gem and lose, but you can't lose when you win.
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Jack Warhop: "I did and what are you going to do about it." (admitting to teammate Jim Curry that he had tied up his street clothes in knots, and moments before Curry knocked him out)
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Smokey Joe Wood: "I slept a real sleep last night for the first time in many a night. When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it."
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