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.
BOB UECKERThe 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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The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.
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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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When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.
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We were on for six years. We were in syndication for a while. It had its run. I still see the people from ‘Mr. Belvedere,’ too. We stay in touch.
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I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.
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Baseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.
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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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Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate.
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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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I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.
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I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.
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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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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 had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.
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