I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it’s never at the expense of the other guy.
BOB UECKERYou know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year… unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.
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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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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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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Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship – and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.
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I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.
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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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In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
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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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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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I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.
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When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.
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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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After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.
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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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