92 result(s) for Bob Uecker Quotes.
"I led the league in 'Go get 'em next time'"
"I asked Hank Aaron how he keeps hitting after all these years. He said, 'I just can't figure out how to retire"
"The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up"
"I'm a bit hurt, but I bought a new three-piece suit and I'm OK now"
"The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened to me when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud"
"I never realized how short I was until I sat in a dugout where everyone else was on a folding chair"
"Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products"
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"It was a totally different feeling playing on the old clay surface. It's so hard to explain. Time seems to pass differently. For instance, during one game, I went into second base and came out wearing knickers"
"He slides into second with a stand-up double"
"Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a road trip?"
"I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he didn't have that kind of dough. But he eventually scraped it up"
"One time, I got pulled over at four a.m. I was fined seventy-five dollars for being intoxicated and four-hundred for being with the Phillies"
"When I came down with the flu, the doctors put me on Fisher Grove"
"My buddies and I still play baseball on the weekends"
"I entered an Oreo cookie-eating contest. I had a glass of milk, I got dunking, I won"
"I knew when my career was over. In 1965, my baseball card came out with no picture"
"I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks during batting practice"
"I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope ninety percent of them don't even get printed"
"We go 'Back to you' like 'Oops'"
"Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the Cubs, with all the losing, the drinking, the traveling, the days when I never even thought I'd make it to the big leagues, was quite an accomplishment"
"Sports are my favorite sport."
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"I had an easy day's work every time I worked with that guy. They tell me he was a Hall of Famer. I know that."
"Baseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of Old Timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times."
"They got a plaque down at that Hall of Fame in Cooperstown with all the guys’ faces that are in there. All the old-timers there now with big mustaches. Mine’s hanging in the barber shop on a nail."
"I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender."
"You just can't beat the person who never gives up."
"I looked up Pete was as a role model in the mid-60's. That didn't work."
"I always thought it would be great if a pitch was put up high where you nearly had to scrape to swing at it. But then how could a man score runs?"
"He slides to second and comes up yelling I'm the greatest."
"I know that I'm a major league player. And I know there aren't too many of them out there."
"If a man starts with strong character, it can’t really go downhill. And if he starts with no character had you buy a Sears Motel in Omaha."
"I became a good hitter when I stopped trying to be a receptionist."
"I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase."
"I led the league in go get 'em next time."
"I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year."
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"They say the ballparks are getting smaller. But the players aren't."
"I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope, next year, they threaten to shave my head just to try."
"I had this terrible cold, and my wife didn't want to sleep in the same room with me. So she kicked me into the den. And you know what? That was the turning point."
"Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit."
"I owe I owe it's off to work I go."
"See, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."
"I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager, Herman Franks, came out to get him, he was bringing Franks with him."
"I think I threw one too many spitballs because I still see a lot of them in the air."
"The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up."
"Without question, the toughest four years of my life were those in the third grade."
"I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he didn't have that kind of dough. But he eventually scraped it up."
"After being traded by the Braves to the Phillies in '66, Philadelphia fans gave me a crash course in die-hard loyalty."
"I was a seventh-round draft choice by the Braves in 1958 and the scariest part of any of your stories should be that."
"I managed a seven-run third in an '86 game I broadcast for the Brewers. The guy scoring the game in New York almost had a heart attack. He sent the runs up as we batted around twice."
"I think at 3 in the morning, you don't really care where you go. You just want to go back to bed."
"The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were making signs for me to take him out. So I took him out...to eat."
"I led the league in 'Go get 'em next time'."
"I was traded to a bad team. That's bad preparation for a career."
"I had an awful first game. I personally accounted for the first three runs batted in."
"The way the ball streaked in the air from the pitcher's hand to the catcher's glove. God, we couldn't touch 'em with a 10-foot pole."
"When I came up to hit, I was the only guy that the infield was halfway, and the outfield was halfway. I was just stuck in the middle."
"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like 'What I'm going to be if I grow up.'"
"I loved Milwaukee and I loved Miller Park. I thought I'd go until 2005 and then maybe they'd try to find something different."
"Every time I look into the mirror, I want to thank my parents - for having me wear braces."
"Philadelphia's fans are the meanest in the league. Here's what happened with the Philly fans. They boo one of Santa's reindeer."
"I made sandlots everywhere I played."
"The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan."
"I had a terrible game once. It was a day game. When it was over, I was sitting in the clubhouse, feeling really bad - people who saw me kept talking to me, not about the game, but about how great my tan was."
"We've got the worst airport in America. I mean that's not just me talking. You can actually read that in Time magazine."
"When I woke up, my uniform was on. And when I got to the ballpark, I got sick and tired of the other guys and decided to stay."
"The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up."
"I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture."
"The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud."
"I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed."
"Boxing was much easier on my brain."
"In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs."
"I led the league in 'Go get 'em next time.'"
"I must be in the front row!"
"Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products."
"You can catch a lot of flies with honey, but you catch more honeys by being fly."
"I was traded to Milwaukee for a washing machine and a player to be named later."
"People don't know this but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came up with a scouting report that said they could win."
"The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago, we called it spring training."
"When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes."
"It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control."
"I had slumps that lasted into the winter."
"He is going to be around a long time. He is a perfect nice guy but he will not win in the major leagues. He just does not throw hard enough. Not to knock him, he does not throw hard enough."
"I tell ya, it didn't bother me. We were used to it. You never bother what you're used to... I'm used to it."
"Most of the other games are just transient - this is a game we'll take with us the rest of our lives."
"That little guy's the biggest guy they got."
"The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up."
"You know you're old when they have discontinued your blood type."
"The Brewers have a bright future. The Brewers are going young, and painful."
"I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I doubt most guys would even want them equaled!"
"We are getting a little thin in the bullpen. Ken Sanders is getting more work than he ever has."
"I had a lot of what you might call rubber check days along about the day I broke in... I remember one time I asked Casey Stengel if I could get a couple of bucks advance. He told me to go see a barber."
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