Quotes of: Yogi Keyword

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

Tris Speaker

We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

Whitey Herzog

We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.

Whitey Herzog

What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.

Whitey Herzog

I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.

Walter Johnson

Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.

Willie McCovey

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

Warren Spahn

I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.

Willie Stargell

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

Willie Stargell

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

Willie Stargell

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.

Willie Stargell

We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.

Don Mattingly

All I like to do is work every day and have an idea what I want to do.

David Ortiz

I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

Pat Gillick

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

Rob Delaney

Dios no hace ciertamente distinción alguna entre lo "importante" y lo "no importante", no vaya a ser que, por falta de un alfiler, ¡El cosmos se derrumbre!

Autobiography of a Yogi

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

Beach Music

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

Beach Music

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.

My Losing Season: A Memoir

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

My Losing Season: A Memoir

Somewhere in the ocean, a shark was missing its cold eyes because this man had them.

The Lock Artist