Bob Uecker Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Team, Men

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

• If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Winter, Years

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

• The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Waiting, Funny Baseball

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.45, Triumph Books

• Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Baseball, Games

• Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Games, Tyrants

• In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Player, Years

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

• Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Women, Looks

• When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Thirds, Coaches

• My kids used to do things to aggravate me, too. I'd take them to a game, and they'd want to come home with a different player.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Home, Kids

• I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn't appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Hair, Grew

  Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. May 15, 2008.

• Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Baseball, Pay

• I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Winter, Slumps

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

• I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Records, Facts

• Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Thinking, Years

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

• I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Average, Years

• Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship - and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Men, Years

  Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. May 15, 2008.

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