Alvin Dark Quotes

#1. The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'

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#2. In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.

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#3. A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.

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#4. Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

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#5. There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.

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#6. Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

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#7. The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

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#8. The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

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#9. Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

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#10. Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

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#11. There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.

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#12. A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

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