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"There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'"
"You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die."
Joaquin Andujar
Anyone else have a favorite or two?
"You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die."
Joaquin Andujar
Anyone else have a favorite or two?
Where have you gone Dave Vargha
CU turns its lonely eyes to you
What's the you say, Mrs Robinson
Vargha bucks have left and gone away?
hey hey hey
hey hey hey
CU turns its lonely eyes to you
What's the you say, Mrs Robinson
Vargha bucks have left and gone away?
hey hey hey
hey hey hey
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--Pedro's attorney
"They can talk about me like they want to, but, um, I got my money ... so matter what you all say, Mike black, but Mike rich!"
--Michael Irvin
"When I'm dead, and my activities on Earth have passed, I hope they bury me upside down so my critics can kiss my ass."
--Bobby Knight
"Relax. We've been playing these guys for 80 years. They're never gonna beat us."
-- Yogi Berra to Bernie Williams during the 1999 ALCS
"That's what they get for building a stadium on the ocean."
-- Oil Can Boyd, after a game was fogged out in Cleveland
"Last time I checked, there weren't any W's and L's in my paycheck."
-- Former Celtic Curtis Rowe
"The only time I want to talk to a woman when I'm naked is if I'm on top of her or she's on top of me."
-- Former Tigers pitcher Jack Morris on female sportswriters
Former Brave Terry Haper
Patrick Ewing during the NBA strike 5 years ago
“[He] called me a ‘rapist’ and a ‘recluse.’ I’m not a recluse.”
"I'm just a dark guy from a den of iniquity. A dark shadowy figure from the bowels of iniquity. I wish I could be Mike who gets an endorsement deal. But you can't make a lie and a truth go together. This country wasn't built on moral fiber. This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime."
"I really dig Hannibal. Hannibal had real guts. He rode elephants into Cartilage."
"I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating."
"I just want to conquer people and their souls."
"I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian."
"Most everybody knows me by my face."
On malaprops:
"I really didn't say everything I said."
On baseball:
"Ninety per cent of the game is half mental."
On golf:
"Ninety per cent of the putts that fall short don't go in."
On the pennant race:
"It's not over 'til it's over."
On reoccurrences:
"It's deja vu all over again."
On declining attendance:
"If people don't want to come to the ball park, how are you gonna stop them?"
On Little League:
"It keeps the kids out of the house."
On losing:
"We made too many wrong mistakes."
On managing:
"You observe a lot by watching."
On outfield shadows:
"It gets late early out there."
On RBIs:
"Every time I came to bat, there were men on base."
On seasoning:
"Bill Dickey is learning me all his experience."
On umpires:
"Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood & a ball hitting concrete must be blind."
On "Yogi Berra Night":
"I want to thank all those who made this night necessary."
On shrines:
"When you're a great enough person, you get to be a place."
On emulation:
"If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."
On sweaters:
"The only colour I don't have is navy brown."
On tardiness:
"Well, why did you wait so long to go now?"
On aftenoon naps:
"I usually sleep two hours, from one o'clock to four."
On Bo Derek:
"Well, I haven't seen him."
On Joe Altobelli:
"Now you're an old Italian scallion."
On Steve McQueen:
"He made that picture before he died."
On his Montclair home:
"Wotta house. Nothin' but rooms."
On a popular restaurant:
"Nobody goes there any more. It's too crowded."
On pricey hotel breakfasts:
"That's because they have to import those English muffins."
Groucho Marx
"Writers like to say thy've seen a lot of players come and go. I've seen a lot of writers come and go."
- Nolan Ryan in his 25th season
"I found out that it's not good to talk about my troubles. 80% of the people who hear them don't care, and the other 20% are glad your having trouble"
- Tommy Lasorda
"Hey, you are only young once. But you can be immature forever"
- Larry Andersen
"Run it out, you piece of crud"
- Carlton Fisk to Deion Sanders
"I don't read the stories about myself. I just look at the pictures
- Shaq
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"I didn't begin cheating until late in my career, when I needed something to help me survive. I didn't cheat when I won the twenty-five games in 1961. I don't want anybody to get any ideas and take my Cy Young Award away. And I didn't cheat in 1963 when I won twenty-four games. Well, maybe a little." -- Whitey Ford
"I'd rather him (Grover Alexander) pitch a crucial game for me drunk, then anyone I've ever known sober. He was that good." -- Rogers Hornsby
"I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in." -- Rogers Hornsby
"I've posed with some real major leaguers, not bush leaguers like he (Roger Maris) is. He couldn't carry my bat. He didn't hit in two years what I hit in one." in Spring Training -- Rogers Hornsby
"One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second." -- Satchell Paige
"They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying." -- Cool Papa Bell
CU turns its lonely eyes to you
What's the you say, Mrs Robinson
Vargha bucks have left and gone away?
hey hey hey
hey hey hey
My goals this season are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone. -- Mickey Rivers
CU turns its lonely eyes to you
What's the you say, Mrs Robinson
Vargha bucks have left and gone away?
hey hey hey
hey hey hey
"The sun will rise, the sun will set, and I'll have lunch."
"If I saw myself in clothes like those I'd have to kick my own a$$." Happy Gilmore
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1998 SA-GE Red Autographs 8/50 16%
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Always looking for PSA 5-8 of these!
"It was so hot in Texas the dogs were chasing the cats and they were both walking."
Reggie Jackson - "My IQ's 175." Mickey Rivers - "Out of what, buck, 1000?."
Reggie Jackson - "Why I am bothering to argue with somebody who cannot read or write." Mickey Rivers - "You ought to stop reading and writing and start hitting."
Here are a couple of dialogues:
Stewardess: "Mr. Ali, please fasten your seat belt."
Ali."Superman don't need no seat belt."
Stewardess: "Superman don't need no airplane, either."
Here is one of my favourites,
Dick Williams being interviewed after walking Bake McBride intentionally to get to Mike Schmidt - who than hit a game winning single.
Williams."I don't care if Jesus Christ was coming up, I was going to walk McBride."
Reporter: "What if Babe Ruth was coming up?"
Williams: After a pause, "I don't know about Babe Ruth."
"It's really great being Magic Johnson the basketball player for eight months and than just plain Earvin for the other three."
-Magic Johnson
"Winfield robbed Armas of at least a homerun."
-Announcer Bill White
"He slides into secondbase with a stand-up double."
Jerry Coleman announcer
“We were mighty short on infielders in those days."
"Lets face it. I'm not a headline guy. I always knew that as long as I was following Babe to the plate I could have gone up there and stood on my head. No one would have noticed the difference. When the Babe was through swinging, whether he hit one or fanned, nobody paid any attention to the next hitter. They all were talking about what the Babe had done."
"I might have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for."
Quotes About Lou Gehrig
"I would not have traded two minutes of the joy and the grief with that man for two decades of anything with another."
...Lou Gehrig's wife, Eleanor
“Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer."
...baseball player Gil Hodges
"He was a symbol of indestructibility – a Gibraltar in cleats."
...columnist Jim Murray
Ken
- Slowly (Very Slowly) Working On A 1952 Topps Raw Set (Lower Grade)
"He's at the 30, the 40, the 50, the 40, look at that sumbit-ch go."
"F@!k you, Jo Boo, I do myself"
"They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there. "
From my namesake, of course.
Don Drysdale talking about throwing at a batter. He said something to the effect.
"I would always throw at him twice, so he knows the 1st one wasn't a mistake"
From the book Sandy Koufax "a lefty's legacy"
"Trying to hit Koufax was like, trying to drink coffee with a fork" - Willie Stargell
"New Guinea, I'd thought I'd see a lot of Italians there"
Phil Rizzuto's Hall Of Fame induction speech on being in the Navy in WW II
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Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.
I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?
It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?
Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.
Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss?
Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat.
The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.
"Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter."
"Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move."
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."
"I never had a job. I always played baseball."
"Mother always told me, if you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to no one else."
and my two favorite...
"I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I would toss one that ain’t never been seen by this generation."
"My pitching philosophy is simple; you gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat."
1953 Topps in PSA 8
1941 Playball in PSA 8.
1952-1955 Red Man cards in 7 and 8
1950 Bowman in PSA 8
..........."I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf."
Darrel Chaney on how management could keep the Braves on their toes
............"Raise the urinals."
Mike Greenwell
"I'm a 4-wheel-drive pickup type of guy...... So is my wife."
Mickey Rivers, on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin
"Me and George and Billy are two of a kind."
Eddie Eichorn, White Sox owner
"I told [GM] Roland Hemond to go out and get me a big name pitcher. He said, 'Terwilliger's got 12 letters. Is that a big enough name for you ?'"
Jerry Rice
"I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that."
Jason Kidd
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
Floyd Patterson
"Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death."
Pat Glenn - Weightlifting commentator
"This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria....I saw her snatch this morning and it was amazing."
What's my opinion of Kingman's performance!? What the BLEEP do you think is my opinion of it? I think it was BLEEPING BLEEP. Put that in, I don't BLEEP. Opinion of his performance!!? BLEEP, he beat us with three BLEEPING home runs! What the BLEEP do you mean, "What is my opinion of his performance?" How could you ask me a question like that, "What is my opinion of his performance?" BLEEP, he hit three home runs! BLEEP. I'm BLEEPING pissed off to lose that BLEEPING game. And you ask me my opinion of his performance! BLEEP. That's a tough question to ask me, isn't it? "What is my opinion of his performance?"
Nick
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What Casey said about being given the greatest living manager award. "I want to thank all my players for giving me the honor of being what I
was."
"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those
who are still undecided."
On his dismissal as Yankee Mgr.- "I'll never make the mistake of turning 70 again"
"I made my mind up but I made it up both ways."
"Okay everybody line up alphabetically according to your height!!"
"There comes a time in every man's life, and Ive had plenty of them."
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-Dizzy Dean on September 21, 1934, after his brother Paul had no-hit the Dodgers in the second game of a doubleheader. Dizzy had tossed a three-hit shutout in the first game.
"it took you five years to get this far- and now you want to spoil everything."
-Yankees third base coach Art Fletcher, to poor-hitting pitcher Lefty Gomez. Gomez had reached third base and asked Fletcher if he should try to steal home.
"I found that it's not good to talk about my problems. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don't care and the other 20 percent are glad [I'm] having trouble.
- Hall of Fame manager Tommy Lasorda
1954
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My dad ordered a pizza, the pizza guy asked my dad if he would like that sliced in 4 or 8 pieces. My dad say's, "You better make it four, I don't think I can eat Eight."
Yogi Berra
"I know one thing. I was one of those guys who pitched without a cup. I wouldn't do it on this stuff."
Jimmy Piersall was once ejected from a game by an umpire with the same last name as an assassinated president . "They shot the wrong McKinley", he quipped.
"Playing middle linebacker is like walking through a tiger cage wearing a pork chop suit."
In one of the Yanks/Dodgers WS in the 70s, one Yankee (Munson, I think), in response to a question about whether they could beat the Dodgers, said,"I think we'll win if we can just keep them from hugging each other too much."
My signature line for a while was something out of a Harry S Truman biography:
Once when I was a young boy lying on a riverbank with a friend, he asked me what I'd like to be when I grew up. I said I wanted to be a real major league baseball player like Honus Wagner. He said he wanted to be President of the United States. In the end, neither of us got our wish.
My favorite may be either apocryphal or sarcastic, but its just pure comedy to me. Rickey Henderson, on seeing a player taking fielding practice with a batting helmet on, said something like,"What's that guy doing out there with a helmet on?" The player was John Olerud, who by that point had been Rickey's teammate on the Mets AND the Mariners.
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The one and only Lee Elia
"If we can just cut down on our mistakes and score more points than the other team in the 2nd half, we've got a really good chance at pulling this one out."
-Tanya Harding
Ahhh, being home-schooled in a double wide.....What a hottie and she is single!!!!!!
And a few from Mickey Rivers:
"What was the name of that dog on Rin Tin Tin?'"
"Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding"
"I might have to commute. You know, left field, DH, wherever."
"I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan."
Ripken, Brooks & Frank Robinson, Old Orioles, Sweet Spot Autos, older Redskins - Riggins, Sonny, Baugh etc and anything that catches my eye.
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- Mike Tyson
nettles on sparky lyle: "from cy young to sayonara"
"That's very impressive for Bobby and someday when I grow up I hope to be just like him"
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"I never knew my dad. Sadly, he died two years before I was born."
"It's terrible what happened in Yahtzee, Germany."
On cocaine use - "Look. I only inhaled the stuff. I never smoked it."
"I dread home games because I live in an apartment."
"It's not pitcher that hit people, it's the baseballs."
"If we win four games in the series, I like our chances."
"I'd rather be the worst fifth man in basketball than the best sixth man."
"Break the plane at the goal line. Break the plane at the goal line. I ain't never seen one single damn plane at the goal line."
"If Bonds is so good, why isn't he in the Hall of Fame?"
"...... was so stupid, we needed to give him a roadmap before he ran the bases."
"Dont shoot the messenger...unless he gives you a mail bomb."
"All this drug stuff is overblown."
"I used to just hate when they pitched me outside, but I probably should have kept my mouth shut about it in the press."
"Never shower next to your center if he giggles every time you take a snap."
"That was barely a knockout."
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<< <i>Speaking of classic tirades, this always brings me to tears of laughter ...
(edited to add - caution, profanity-laced tirade coming up ...)
The one and only Lee Elia >>
That was awesome!
who called UofM games from 1945 to 1981. He was a true "homer" but he
called games with a passion that was unmatched. He died in '81.
When Anthony Carter caught a 45-yard touchdown pass from John Wangler
with no time left to beat Indiana in 1979, Ufer nearly blew a gasket. An excerpt
of his call on WJR:
"Under center is Wangler at the 45. . . . He goes back, he's looking for a receiver,
he throws downfield to Carter, Carter has it . . . AGGHHHHH! Carter scores! . . .
Ufer is going out of his mind! I have never seen anything like this! . . . Bo
Schembechler is looking up at Fielding Yost in football's Valhalla, and Bo
Schembechler says, "Thank you, Fielding Yost! Thank you, Fielding Yost,
for that one!" . . . Carter went streaking down there like a penguin with
a hot herring in his cummerbund! . . . Carter had visions of sugarplums,
and he had visions of roses, because Carter's never been to Pasadena! . . .
They aren't even going to try the extra point! Who cares? Who gives a damn?!?
I've never been so happy in all my cotton-pickin' days!"
Ali and Cosell had some classic exchanges. Here's one of my fav's:
Muhammad Ali: Man, without me, you'd just be a mouth and a microphone.
Howard Cosell: And without me, you'd just be a mouth.
And finally, one from Ty Cobb regarding Walter Johnson:
"The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then
something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with
danger. We couldn't touch him....every one of us knew we'd met the most
powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park."
Not sure it's 100% accurate, but it's very close.
Gave me the chills when I first heard it...
Lou Gehrig in a note to his wife:
"The road may come to an end here.
Seems like my back is to the wall,
but there usually comes a way out.
Where & what I know not, but who can tell
that it might lead on to greater things."
Yogi Berra, with words to live by: "When you come to the fork in the road, take it."
Don Drysdale, on batters digging in: "Yeah, dig yourself a nice one, you'll be lying in it."
Big D, again, calling a fly ball to center from a batter going 0 for 17: "And if this one comes down, he'll be 0 for 18."
And, of course, the Bambino facing Walter Johnson on a darkening field, taking a called third strike: "I didn't see it either, but that one sounded outside."
"All evil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
"That guy could throw a baseball through a car wash without it getting wet".
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"I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius." -- Warren Spahn
"(Bruce) Benedict may not be hurt as much as he really is." -- Jerry Coleman
"And Kansas is at Chicago tonight or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas leads in the eighth four-to-four." -- Jerry Coleman
CU turns its lonely eyes to you
What's the you say, Mrs Robinson
Vargha bucks have left and gone away?
hey hey hey
hey hey hey
A very nice & personable guy. While talking to Johnny, he kinda grunted at me...jay
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Unfocused, impulsive collector of everything ...
"I look forward to coming to town just to see the games ... We plan absentee ownership. We're not going to pretend to be something we aren't. I'll stick to building ships"
one of the funniest i've ever heard was when i was watching a regional Fox Sports college football game. they were using 3rd or 4th rate announcers, and one of em remarked "he shucked him like an ear of corn!" when some Cornhusker juked a defender. i almost died laughing