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302 quotes found searching on Location: New York I wish I had an answer to that question because I'm getting tired of answering that question.Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra Listen up, because I've got nothing to say and I'm only gonna to say it once.New York Yankees Catcher - OF HOF 1972 We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.New York Yankees Pitcher HOF 1972 You can't get rich sitting on the bench, but I'm giving it a try.New York Yankees Utility fielder Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel The Mets have shown me ways to lose I never knew existed.Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel Now this is over thirty years later, and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn't. My number was up.Joseph Paul "Joe" DiMaggio What a terrific spitball pitcher he was. Bugs drank a lot, you know, and sometimes it seemed like the more he drank the better he pitched. They used to say he didn't spit on the ball, he blew his breath on it and the ball would come up drunk.Richard William "Rube" Marquard I got along with him fine. He only suspended me once, for two weeks. It was on account of I socked him. Well, I didn't really sock him. It was more of a push. I pushed him, sort of, and he fell down the dugout steps. Well maybe it was a sock at that. I'm not sure now. After all, it took place about 60 years ago. What happened was that I missed a sign. It wasn't my fault, it really wasn't. When I got back to the dugout he called me a lot of names and so I hit him. He suspended me for two weeks without pay, but once it was over he forgot about it completely. Never mentioned it again.In the mid-1960's The beauty of first-ball, fastball hitting (and not just in the first at-bat) is that it eliminates the pitcher's strategy in the at-bat. You step in, get a good swing on a good pitch, put the ball in play, and your chances are reasonable. The guy can't fool around with you for three or four pitches. Those pitches may put you ahead in the count, but they may also put you behind. The whole idea of working the count is to see a fastball in a good location (the hanging curve is perfectly acceptable, too). But if you see this good pitch to hit as the first offering, go to hacking! No use waiting!New York Mets 1B previous 10 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 next Search for quotes here! You can put in multiple words, or if you want to search on a particular phrase, "wrap it in quotes". |
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