I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn’t appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.
BOB UECKERI set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.
More Bob Uecker Quotes
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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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Today you don’t have to do that, because catchers’ mitts are more like first baseman’s gloves.
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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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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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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.
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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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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 make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it’s never at the expense of the other guy.
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Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television…
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I think I set a terrific example of ‘Don’t do this’ and ‘Don’t do that.’ And that’s one of the things that I’m most proud of.
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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 did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.
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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 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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