Baseball Quotes

[cardinalcollector]

But there are tips that you pick up when the Braves were going to release me. It is a tough time for a manager, for your family, for the player to be told that you're never going to play the game again. And I can remember walking in the clubhouse that day, and Luman Harris, who was the Braves' manager, came up to me and said there were no visitors allowed. So again, I knew I might be moving on.-Bob Uecker

[deadballfreaK]

More of a story than a quote, but Mike Shannon told this about Uecker yesterday. He said Uecker would sit at the back of the team bus and make everyone laugh so hard that their ribs hurt and they wanted the trip to end. One day Bob was impersonating and mocking the Cardinal GM who was in the front of the bus and could hear every word. Apparently he didn't appreciate it. Not long after the Cards and the Phillies agreed to a blockbuster trade. Dick Groat and Bill White for Dick Allen, Art Mahaffey, and Pat Corrales. All was agreed to and the Cardinal GM said, "I'll throw in Uecker for nothing".
Phils GM, "We don't want Uecker".
Cards GM, "You'll take him or the deals off!"

[T206Fan]

Mike Shannon during a cardinals game in the eighties at Pittsburgh "folks there is a beautiful full moon in Pittsburgh tonight I wish all you folks back in Saint Louis could see it"

[Rob D.]

Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand. -- Leo Durocher

[RCMcKenzie]

A rookie Oakland A's player in spring training boarded the bus to go to the split-squad game and sat down in the second row. After the bus loaded the manager climbed on, saw the rookie sitting there, and said, "Only players with tenure are allowed to sit in the front."

Ricky Henderson yelled from the back, "H___, I got fifteenure, and I'm still sitting back here!"
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Yogi- "You guys better get here quick. There's a fire."

Fire Dept- "How do we get there?"

Yogi- "Don't you guys still have those big red trucks?"

[deadballfreaK]

Once Jack Buck and Mike Shannon had a guest in the booth. She was representing some organization and had the official title of "Miss Cheesecake". After giving her spiel she left Jack and Mike a delicious looking cheesecake.
Buck says to Shannon "Well, Mike what do think of Miss Cheesecake?" Only trouble was Shannon heard "THIS Cheesecake".

Mike Shannon,: "Man, I'd like to have a piece of THAT!"

[whitehse]

One of my favorites and I even have this up at my desk at work.

"Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching, who throws strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing outfield and who's always thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll do to baffle the other team. Any manager would want a guy like that playing for him. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer and come down out of the stands and do those things."

Danny Murtaugh