The best Quotes by Bob Uecker

The best Quotes by Bob Uecker

Robert George Uecker (born January 26, 1934) is an American former Major League Baseball catcher who currently works as a broadcaster for the Milwaukee Brewers.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

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.

We were on for six years. We were in syndication for a while. It had its run. I still see the people from 'Mr. Belvedere,' too. We stay in touch.

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.

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.

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Another way of enjoying Minnesota is to move to Wisconsin.

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Wisconsin girls - the kind of girl you can take home to meet your mom, but can outdrink your dad.

There's a thing in Wisconsin called "deer widows", when all the men leave town to go on hunting trips and the women stay at home, to do whatever it is women do without men.

I was always a Favre fan. I was born in Wisconsin, and my whole family was Packers fans, so I grew up watching him.

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Wisconsin's a special place.

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I've only been to one winery in Wisconsin, and it had a paintball course.

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Washington, D.C. is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.

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Washington, D.C.Wisconsin

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Wisconsin - and that's pretty much the same thing.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

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Success Losing & Defeat

Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.

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I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.

Ryne Sandberg

My style is I work hard at it. I feel like I'm prepared every day.

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You win a championship, and you feel 7 feet tall.

Jose Altuve

That's what I love about baseball, that it gives the opportunity for every single guy to develop and play the game. There's not a rule that you have to be 6 foot or you have to be real strong to play baseball or to become a good player.

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I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.

Barry Bonds

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

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I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

David Ortiz

Ambition Winning

I just want to play baseball.

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I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Derek Jeter

Ambition Motivation

I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

Derek Jeter

Failures & Mistakes Perfection

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

Mickey Rivers

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

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Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.

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I do everything in a straightforward manner.

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Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

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Praying Day of Repentance and Prayer

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

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I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.

Ralph Kiner

You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

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A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Jackie Robinson

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

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The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

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Beast Mode doesn't make excuses. It doesn't complain. Whatever you're doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.

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I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

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People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

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A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

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In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.

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I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball.

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

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