Drysdale Quotes

#1. When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.

Don Drysdale

#2. But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him.

Juan Marichal

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Of course, I love you for who you are.

Kaori Yuki

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

Don Drysdale

#9. 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

#10. The use of tobacco is one of the most evident of all the retrograde influences of our time. It invades all classes, destroys social life, and is turning, in the words of Mantegazza, the whole of Europe into a cigar divan.

Charles R. Drysdale

#11. 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

#12. The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

Vartan Gregorian

#13. Food for thought, eat my words with your mind:
Emcees are grapes, and grapes are crushed to wine.

MF Grimm

#14. The Houston Astros are the youngest team in the National League if you judge by age.

Don Drysdale

#15. Technique bridges among ideas, and sometimes generates them.

Mason Cooley

#16. He (Don Drysdale) talks very well for a guy who's had two fingers in his mouth all his life.

Gene Mauch

#17. Rampton suggested that one could derive a "fair picture of a man's true attitudes and motives from what he says and from the kind of people he associates with and speaks to.

Deborah E. Lipstadt

#18. I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'

Mickey Mantle

#19. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.

Brigitte Trinkle

#20. Repentance is the process of discovering what God says is the truth and aligning your faith with His.

Phil Drysdale

#21. The thing we need most is each other.

Hugh Mackay

#22. No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The future belongs to posthumanity.

Max More

#23. When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.

Don Drysdale

#24. I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.

Don Drysdale

#25. Once she would have found him mysterious and alluring. She had grown wiser. Dangerous men were neither romantic nor exotic; they were men who could hurt you.

Robin Hobb

#26. Where do you want it?

Don Drysdale

#27. Open yer mind to the world, kids. No point havin' yer windows open if yer don't pull back the curtains to let in the light! - Grandpa's favourite saying to Kirsten and Jeremy. Quoted in The Hybrid and the Emeralds of Elisar

Suellen Drysdale