I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.
BOB UECKERI did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.
More Bob Uecker Quotes
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The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.
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I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I’d put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band.
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When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.
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I was acting when I was playing baseball.
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I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.
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I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.
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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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Career highlights? I had two – I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.
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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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If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to?
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I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
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How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.
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I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.
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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 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.
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