I was acting when I was playing baseball.
BOB UECKERLet’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.
More Bob Uecker Quotes
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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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I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.
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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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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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I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn’t have that kinda money to put out.
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Today you don’t have to do that, because catchers’ mitts are more like first baseman’s gloves.
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I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn’t appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.
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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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Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.
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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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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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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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I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
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