Top 12 Don Drysdale Quotes
#1. When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.
Don Drysdale
#2. In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.
Don Drysdale
#3. Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.
Don Drysdale
#4. A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.
Don Drysdale
#5. It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.
Don Drysdale
#6. If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.
Don Drysdale
#7. My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.
Don Drysdale
#8. The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.
Don Drysdale
#9. The Houston Astros are the youngest team in the National League if you judge by age.
Don Drysdale
#10. When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.
Don Drysdale
#11. I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.
Don Drysdale
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