Quotes of: Jackie Keyword

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

Dizzy Dean

If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

Don Drysdale

When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.

Don Drysdale

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.

Dennis Eckersley

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

Dwight Gooden

When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

Dale Murphy

I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

Dale Murphy

I think people found out I'm just like anybody else. I've got problems, too.

Dale Murphy

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.

John Elway

You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.

Jason Giambi

I know my swing is going to be there. I don't need 600 swings in the cage; I know where it's at.

Jason Giambi

I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.

Jason Giambi

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

John Kruk

Max Cherry: Is white guilt supposed to make me forget that I run a business?

Jackie Brown

My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.

Don Baylor

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

David Cone

Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw.

Dazzy Vance

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

Hank Aaron

Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.

Leon Day

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

Mike Schmidt

The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

Sparky Anderson