Baseball quotes.pdf - Baseball Excellence

"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else."
"Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded."
"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."
"I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house."
"Little League Baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the
streets."
"It gets late early out there."
"He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious."
"I don't know. They had bags over their heads." - when asked if the fans that ran
naked on the field were men or women
"I want to thank you for making this day necessary." - on Yogi Berra Appreciation
Day in St. Louis in 1947
"The other teams could make trouble for us if they win." - on the American League
situation
After receiving a check made out to "Bearer" for his appearance on Jack Buck's
pregame show in St. Louis: "How long have you known me, Jack? And you still
don't know how to spell my name."
Asked if first baseman Don Mattingly had exceeded his expectations this season: "I'd
say he's done more than that."
On the aquisition of fleet Ricky Henderson: "He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving
him the red light."
On a fancy White House dinner he attended: "It was hard to have a conversation
with anyone, there were so many people talking."
Reminiscing during a TV interview about New York Yankee battery mate Don Larsen's
perfect game in the 1956 World Series: "It's never happened in the World Series
competition, and it still hasn't."
"I don't see how he lost five games during the season." - on Sandy Koufax during
the 1963 World Series. Koufax's record during the regular season was 25-5.
"So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face."