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.
BOB UECKERI 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.
More Bob Uecker Quotes
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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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I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.
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How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.
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I had slumps that lasted into the winter.
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Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
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I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
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Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
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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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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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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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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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Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball.
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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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He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
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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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