Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball.
BOB UECKERWhen 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.
More Bob Uecker Quotes
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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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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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How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.
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I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.
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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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Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
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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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Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate.
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Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
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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 had slumps that lasted into the winter.
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On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.
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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 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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I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players’ equipment.
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