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It ain't braggin' if you go out and do it.

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

Satch, if you and Josh (Gibson) played with me 'n' (his brother and fellow pitcher) Paul on the Cards, we'd win the pennant by July 4th and go fishin' the rest of the year.

To pitcher Satchel Paige, between innings of an exhibition game between the Crawfords and his world champion Cardinals

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.

After being hit in the head by a thrown ball in the 1934 World Series.

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

If I'da known he was gonna throw one, I'da thrown one, too.

After his brother Paul threw a no-hitter in the second game of a double-header when Dizzy had thrown a two-hitter in the first game

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

Contributed by: Nick Johnson

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees...they just can't help it.

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

"Radio Announcing I Have Did"

Title of a lecture he gave at Southern Methodist University sometime after the St. Louis Board of Education, distressed by the example being set for children by the bizarre syntax and brutalized grammer used in his Cardinals game broadcasting, asked that he be removed from the airwaves

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

Charleston could hit that ball a mile. He didn’t have a weakness. When he came up, we just threw it and hoped like hell he wouldn’t get a hold of one and send it out of the park.

On the Hall Of Fame slugger Oscar Charleston of the Negro Leagues

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

Argyin' with an umparr is like argyin' with a stump. Maybe you city folks don't know what a stump is. Well, it's somethin' a tree has been cut off of.

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

The score is nothing to nothing and nobody's winning.

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

A lotta folks who ain't saying ain't, ain't eatin'. So, Teach, you learn 'em English, and I'll learn 'em baseball.

Said on the air in response to an English teacher who wrote to him, complaining that he shouldn't use the word "ain't" on the air, as it was a bad example to children

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

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