Quotes of: Jackie Keyword

There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn't make it with their natural talent, so they had to enhance themselves. It sucks.

David Wells

I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.

Earle Combs

You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.

Eddie Murray

I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.

Eddie Murray

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

Bob Feller

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

Bob Feller

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

Bob Gibson

Your biggest influences are the earliest ones. When I was young, I was very influenced by the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Brad Holland

What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.

Barry Larkin

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

Bill Russell

Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day.

Branch Rickey

Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shall steal and thou must.

Branch Rickey

Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

Branch Rickey

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

Branch Rickey

I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.

Barry Sheene

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