Eddie Mathews Quotes

#1. Five hundred smacks? On the Yankees? When the Braves've got Spahn and Burdette? Not to mention Hank Aaron and Steady Eddie Mathews?

Stephen King

#2. When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what Ted Williams and Stan Musial meant when they said it got tougher to get in shape every year.

Eddie Mathews

#3. My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my mother, I'd have some extra chores to do. My mother was instrumental in making me a pull hitter.

Eddie Mathews

#4. I'm just a beat up old third baseman. I'm just a small part of a wonderful game that is a tremendous part of America today.

Eddie Mathews

#5. Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation

Boyd K. Packer

#6. It is normal to be nervous.

James Galway

#7. I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.

Eddie Mathews

#8. The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Oscar Wilde

#9. No, I like you alive and warm and wiggling.

Charlaine Harris

#10. I know when I have kids, when I'm older, I'm going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there's really no 'I' in team.

Gregg Sulkin

#11. To be born with few brains, well, that's unfortunate. To be born with brains to spare and to waste them? That's a sin.

Megan Jacobson

#12. I changed my mind. Get out of my house now. I'll set your things on fire and mail you the ashes.

J. Sterling

#13. Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

David Levithan

#14. When I first started, my message was about joy, but I didn't really have the vocabulary and life experience to fully deliver it.

Jason Mraz

#15. She smiled, and his dead heart warmed.
One smile would never be enough.

Lisa Kessler

#16. You are capable of explaining everything you feel. Why don't you go to the Emperor and talk to him?

Paulo Coelho

#17. It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

Eddie Mathews