Top 31 Andy Van Slyke Quotes
#3. I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.
Andy Van Slyke
#4. If someone from Germany or somewhere, who had no idea what baseball was, saw Kruk play, he'd wonder what the beer truck driver was doing playing first base.
Andy Van Slyke
#5. My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.
Andy Van Slyke
#6. Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.
Andy Van Slyke
#7. They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.
Andy Van Slyke
#8. I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.
Andy Van Slyke
#9. I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.
Boris Yeltsin
#10. He (Ozzie Smith) plays like he's on a mini-trampoline or wearing helium kangaroo shorts.
Andy Van Slyke
#11. If everyone were like him (Mitch Williams) I wouldn't play. I'd find a safer way to make a living.
Andy Van Slyke
#12. It seems like Satan has thrown the DH into our game.
Andy Van Slyke
#13. I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.
Andy Van Slyke
#14. I laughed when I read about being born with two hearts, one of which is devoted only to destroying humanity.
Rachel Klein
#15. The biggest adjustment from the minors was learning to spend $45 in meal money.
Andy Van Slyke
#17. Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.
Andy Van Slyke
#18. Samuel smiled at him. "They say man lived in trees one time. Somebody had to get dissatisfied with a high limb or your feet would not be touching flat ground now.
John Steinbeck
#19. To be free is to share Freedom:
Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
December 6, 1972 - May 2053
Religion of Blue Circle
Babaji
The Archangel Gabriel
God
Petra Hermans
#20. Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.
Katharine Sergeant Angell White
#21. Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow.
Andy Van Slyke
#22. Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.
Leon Leonwood Bean
#23. I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.
Andy Van Slyke
#24. The game is full of peaks and valleys, the key is to avoid the Grand Canyon.
Andy Van Slyke
#25. With the Cardinals everybody would be reading the business section to see what their stocks were doing. You get to this locker room (Pirates) in the morning and everybody is looking at the sports page to see if Hulk Hogan won.
Andy Van Slyke
#26. Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.
Andy Van Slyke
#27. Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson
#29. What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.
Saint Augustine
#30. What a great advantage a man can have over women, if he only knew what cold and calculating thoughts are going through her mind ... while her eyes are brimming with tears.
Esther Vilar
#31. It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.
Andy Van Slyke
