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78 quotes found searching on Team: Dodgers
I found out that it’s not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don’t care and the other twenty percent are glad you’re having trouble.
Los Angeles Dodgers
Manager
HOF 1997
Well, throwing things onto the field is not my idea of a well-rounded human being.
Steven Patrick "Steve" Garvey
Los Angeles Dodgers
1B
My eight years in Brooklyn gave me a new vision of America, or rather America gave me a new vision of a part of itself, Brooklyn. They were wonderful years. A community of over three million people, proud, hurt, jealous, seeking geographical, social, emotional status as a city apart and alone and sufficient. One could not live for eight years in Brooklyn and not catch its spirit of devotion to its baseball club, such as no other city in America equaled. Call it loyalty, and so it was. It would be a crime against a community of three million people to move the Dodgers. Not that the move was unlawful, since people have the right to do as they please with their property. But a baseball club in any city in America is a quasi-public institution, and in Brooklyn the Dodgers were public without the quasi.
Brooklyn Dodgers
General Manager
HOF 1967
Walk him on four pitches and pick him off first.
Elwin Charles "Preacher" Roe
Brooklyn Dodgers
Pitcher
Thou shalt not steal. I mean defensively. On offense, indeed thou shalt steal, and thou must.
Brooklyn Dodgers
General Manager
HOF 1967
Basically, we're all fastball hitters. If we couldn't hit the fastball, we wouldn't be here. But if you have to look at breaking balls all the time you're only as good as your ability to adjust... When I came up, there was more of that pure challenge from the starting pitchers. (Tom) Seaver threw hard, Jerry Koosman threw hard, Bob Gibson threw, I mean, HARD. Fergie Jenkins threw hard and had that good slider away. Jerry Reuss and Steve Carlton threw hard when they were together on the Cardinals in the seventies. So did (John) Candelaria, when he came along, and that same Pirates team had Terry Forster and Goose Gossage coming out of the bullpen. Hard throwers. The 2-0 breaking ball used to be a special trait of the American League, because they had smaller ballparks, and it's harder to hit the breaking ball out. But now, because of free agency, the National League has a lot of American League pitchers in it, and even with our bigger ballparks the whole pitching staff is saying, "Why don't we do it that way, too, instead of being the hardball league?" It's tougher on hitters every day.
Los Angeles Dodgers
1B
Jackie, we've got no army. There's virtually nobody on our side. No owners, no umpires, very few newspapermen. And I'm afraid that many fans will be hostile. We'll be in a tough position. We can win only if we can convince the world that I'm doing this because you're a great ballplayer, a fine gentleman.
Wesley Branch Rickey
Brooklyn Dodgers
General Manager
HOF 1967
I don't mind coming, but why me?
Harold Patrick "Pete" Reiser
Brooklyn Dodgers
OF
I was gonna, Case, but I was afraid I'd crush my cigars.
Stanley George "Frenchy" Bordagaray
Brooklyn Dodgers
OF/3B
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
Brooklyn Dodgers
General Manager
HOF 1967
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