I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.
BOB UECKERNot 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…
More Bob Uecker Quotes
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You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.
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I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.
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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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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 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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I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.
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I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
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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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Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
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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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If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to?
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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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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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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 hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.
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