Alvin Dark Quotes

#1. Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

Erwin Raphael McManus

#2. Everybody thinks they deserve something.

Wayne Rogers

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

Alvin Dark

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

Alvin Dark

#5. A little fear is good for a fellow, it keeps him from getting over-confident.

Gary L. Blackwood

#6. People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

Shia Labeouf

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

Alvin Dark

#8. 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.

Alvin Dark

#9. 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.

Alvin Dark

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

Alvin Dark

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

Alvin Dark

#12. I always want to have more dancers in my company.

Alvin Ailey

#13. Act fittingly.
Act forbearingly.
Act foreknowingly.
Act foresightedly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet.

John D. MacDonald

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

Alvin Dark

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

Alvin Dark

#17. Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

Alvin Dark

#18. I had thought Chicago was inevitable, like diarrhea.

John Varley

#19. Let's think like a cop or to be a killer. If I want to be killer I will left some kind a evidence which make me different from the others... so was it this there?? Why you close it?? Was it open?? Did you, you open it???
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Deyth Banger

#20. Let's play it safe. I'm not in the mood to run right now and I know fighting is suicide. Last thing I want to do is make my enemies happy by dying. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Alvin Dark

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

Alvin Dark