Top 41 Garagiola Quotes
#1. Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!
Joe Garagiola
#2. we clasp hands and look at each other as the sky begins to glow,
Ben H. Winters
#3. With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.
LZ Granderson
#5. She came out of sleep like a thunderclap - waking from dreams so deep and dark that she couldn't remember anything but dirt and hands pulling her down into graves with cities inside them.
Holly Black
#6. I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, 'Where have you been?' and I said right here for now on!
Jerome Richardson
#7. Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.
Joe Garagiola
#8. Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.
Joe Garagiola
#9. Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Joe Garagiola
#10. Commitment to each other is critical. Let's make our deadlines and due dates mean something. For changes to occur, we have to embrace them over and over. Take it step by step
but keep moving forward
and a year from now, we'll find we've moved from here to there.
Rhonda Abrams
#11. By means of the simple folk remedy of ascribing to feeling what is the millennia-long labor of reason and of its understanding, all are spared the bother of rational insight and knowledge.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#12. 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
#13. Professional politicians are busy looking out for their jobs. Send me to Congress so I can look out for your job.
Robert J. Garagiola
#14. 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
#15. The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.
Joe Garagiola
#16. The Chicago Cubs are like Rush Street-a lot of singles, but no action.
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. I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'
Joe Garagiola
#19. My idea of a great night is just stayin' home, reading or playing video games. I'm about as boring as they come, Sorena. I ain't ever been into stress or drama or excitement. Shit, I'd kill for a nap most days.
Alisha Ashton
#20. The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running.
Joe Garagiola
#21. The pathway to freedom begins when we face the problem without making excuses for it.
Joyce Meyer
#22. There had to be forces outside. The prayer went, "Lead me not in temptation." If people were not led by others, why was the famous prayer that it was?
Philip Roth
#23. 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
#24. At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
Alan Hirsch
#25. When my colleagues went to endorse Rob Garagiola, nobody asked me for my opinion about that. And I didn't ask anybody else. I did what I thought was the right thing to do, and I made a decision, just like they did.
Donna Edwards
#26. Artemis Entreri: Do not underestimate Jarlaxle. Many have; they all are dead.
R.A. Salvatore
#27. Don't tell me you can pitch ... pitch. Don't tell me you can sell ... sell.
Joe Garagiola
#28. 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
#29. Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
Joe Garagiola
#30. I'm most comfortable in my bare shorts without any underwear and a T-shirt if I'm home. I definitely like to sleep naked. I don't know how girls do it with thongs. Forget that!
Adam Rodriguez
#32. 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
#33. You really have to be some kind of a creep for a dog to reject you.
Joe Garagiola
#34. It's definitely particular to each situation, but whether it is a long history or someone that you're intimidated by or someone that you didn't think you ever had a shot at, at the end of the day, I think we're all living through high school, every day.
John Krasinski
#35. Billy Loes was the only player in the majors who could lose a ground ball in the sun
Joe Garagiola
#36. I'm an active and involved senator. It's very difficult to do the job I want to do and spend as much time as I want with my kids ... It is time for me to be a father first to them, and I realize as I watch them grow and become young adults that I won't be able to get this time back.
Robert J. Garagiola
#37. Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.
Joe Garagiola
#38. 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
#39. It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.
Joe Garagiola
#41. I'm doing what I like, why wouldn't I be happy? So what if it's not perfect, I don't believe in perfection. Maybe happy's as good as it gets.
John Dunning