Dizzy Dean Quotes
Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat.
If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.
All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.
I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.
He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall.
It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?
I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr. Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.
The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks.
Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.
If you can do it, it ain't braggin'... it's a matter of self-confidence. I got where I did because I wasn't no shrinking violet.
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.
The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.
Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.
Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts.
I'd get me a bunch of bats and balls and sneak me a couple of umpires and learn them kids behind the Iron Curtain how to tote a bat and play baseball.
