Garagiola Joe Quotes

#1. The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running.

Joe Garagiola

#2. It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

Joe Garagiola

#3. One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

Joe Garagiola

#4. Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.

Joe Garagiola

#5. Billy Loes was the only player in the majors who could lose a ground ball in the sun

Joe Garagiola

#6. You really have to be some kind of a creep for a dog to reject you.

Joe Garagiola

#7. Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.

Joe Garagiola

#8. There is no defense against a base on balls.

Joe Garagiola

#9. Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

Joe Garagiola

#10. I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

Joe Garagiola

#11. Don't tell me you can pitch ... pitch. Don't tell me you can sell ... sell.

Joe Garagiola

#12. It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Javier put me back together only to break me again.

Karina Halle

#14. Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.

Joe Garagiola

#15. Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!

Joe Garagiola

#16. I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'

Joe Garagiola

#17. He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that ... every day in their lives is Christmas Eve.

Joe Garagiola

#18. The Chicago Cubs are like Rush Street-a lot of singles, but no action.

Joe Garagiola

#19. The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.

Joe Garagiola

#20. I guess you don't really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.

Joe Garagiola

#21. It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.

Joe Garagiola

#22. Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

Joe Garagiola

#23. Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.

Joe Garagiola

#24. Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.

Joe Garagiola

#25. If you can call it talking, these clipped whispers, projected through the funnels of our white wings. It's more like a telegram, a verbal semaphore. Amputated speech.

Margaret Atwood

#26. God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

W. H. Auden

#27. As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother's pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, 'In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes'.

Aprilynne Pike