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5 quotes found searching on George Howard Brett
If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect three thousand hits and one thousand errors.
George Howard Brett
Kansas City Royals
3B
HOF 1999
It all looks so easy from the dugout. It's called the 'dirt rule'. The farther you get away from the dirt, the easier this game looks. It looks pretty darned easy from the upper deck. And, like I say, it looks easy to me now. I'm sitting in the dugout, and I see a guy try to pull an outside pitch, he hits a slow ground ball to second base, and it drives me crazy. I'm thinking, 'Why does he do that? Why is this guy so stupid?' Of course, I must have done the exact same thing 5000 times when I was a player.
Kansas City Royals
3B
HOF 1999
Hitting is a strange thing. You're so smart talking about hitting, and then you step into the batter's box, and something happens to you. You get stupid. It's like everything goes out the window. You step into the batter's box, and immediately you turn into a third-grader. Fortunately, pitchers are like second-graders.
Kansas City Royals
3B
HOF 1999
It's like (batting coach) Charley Lau used to tell us, used to tell me: "You look very hitterish up there. You look hitterish, you look like you're going to hit the ball hard."
Kansas City Royals
3B
HOF 1999
Prior to 1983, I was always ridiculed at ballparks about an ailment I had during the 1980 World Series. Now, since 1983, I'm always known as the Pine Tar Guy. Now what you you rather be known as?
George Howard Brett
Kansas City Royals
3B
HOF 1999
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