Quotes of: Jackie-robinson Keyword

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

Billy Sunday

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

Billy Sunday

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

Billy Sunday

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

Bruce Sutter

I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.

Barry Zito

Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

Goose Gossage

I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping.

Gaylord Perry

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Hank Aaron

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.

Hank Aaron

Never embarrass a student in front of others. Embarrass yourself often to relieve the tension, but do not paint them into a corner.

Harry Gilbert

The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.

Harmon Killebrew

I've kind of looked at my whole career as a spring training invite.

Jamie Moyer

I believe you learn social skills by mixing with people.

Joe Morgan

I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.

Joe Morgan

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.

John McGraw

You gotta take care of yourself; you can't do anything in excess.

Jorge Posada

We're not done. We're just going to continue playing and hoping to put some wins together again.

Johan Santana

Every place where I played or managed is special to me because of the memories and the friendships that each afforded me.

Joe Torre

Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.

Joe Torre

Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.

Joe Torre

By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief.

Joe Torre