Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.
BOB UECKERAfter getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.
More Bob Uecker Quotes
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Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
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When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.
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Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.
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People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me.
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I had slumps that lasted into the winter.
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I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.
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If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to?
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Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball.
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Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.
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After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.
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I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.
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Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
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Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
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You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year… unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.
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Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship – and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.
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