Joe Garagiola Quotes

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

Joe Garagiola

#2. The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much uneasiness and pain, no matter what tears were shed, what sorrows borne, the peace of Manderley could not be broken or the loveliness destroyed.

Daphne Du Maurier

#3. I did not come to power to divide Somali but to unite them, and I will never deviate from this path. I shall respect a Somali individual as long as he deserves respect, but if he turns away from the correct path, then that is not my business.

Siad Barre

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

Joe Garagiola

#5. 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

#6. I didn't have an interest in school at all and was getting in trouble all the time.

Tig Notaro

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

Joe Garagiola

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

Joe Garagiola

#9. 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

#10. Minds, like parachutes, work only when open.

James Dewar

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

Joe Garagiola

#12. Perceptions were fickle things, as formless as smoke and just as dangerous.

Martina Boone

#13. The best vaccine against anger is to watch others in its throes.

Marcel Proust

#14. If a man ordered a beer milkshake he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.

John Steinbeck

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

Joe Garagiola

#16. 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

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

Joe Garagiola

#18. I don't want people ever to think I'm not in advertising. It's such a business of enthusiasm that if you're not totally excited about it, you should leave it.

Jerry Della Femina

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

Joe Garagiola

#20. I got ice in my veins
Blood in my eyes/Hate in my heart
Love in my mind

Lil' Wayne

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

Joe Garagiola

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

Joe Garagiola

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

Joe Garagiola

#24. 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

#25. The final true artform in what we're talking about is the goal itself. And for us to try and stop that from happening, we're kind of the anti-art.

Kasey Keller

#26. 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

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

Joe Garagiola

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

Joe Garagiola

#29. Conventional psychiatry has emphasized the genetic roots of psychosis based on the claim that twin and other studies show that schizophrenia is 80% heritable, which means that 80% of the cause is genetic.

Richard Bentall

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

Joe Garagiola

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

Joe Garagiola

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

Joe Garagiola

#33. I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.'

Mary Lynn Rajskub

#34. 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

#35. Fate and mathematics don't only bring you back to the people you love. They can also bring you to the people you hate.

Claudia Gray