Koufax Quotes

#1. Career highlights? I had two - I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.

Bob Uecker

#2. When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's.

Tommy John

#3. Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.

Willie Stargell

#4. He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.

Gene Mauch

#5. We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

Whitey Herzog

#6. Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

Larry King

#7. The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over.

Sparky Anderson

#8. I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.

Juan Marichal

#9. I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

Yogi Berra

#10. I know Koufax' weakness. He can't hit.

Whitey Ford

#11. To hatch a crow, a black rainbow
Bent in emptiness
over emptiness
But flying

Ted Hughes

#12. I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

Sandy Koufax

#13. I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years ... I only had four or five good years.

Sandy Koufax

#14. There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.

Sandy Koufax

#15. He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.

Sandy Koufax

#16. If ever the search for a tranquil belief should end,
The future might stop emerging out of the past,
Out of what is full of us; yet the search
And the future emerging out of us seem to be one.

Wallace Stevens

#17. Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

Sandy Koufax

#18. I think it's a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity.

Amy Smart

#19. I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

Sandy Koufax

#20. Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

Philip Emeagwali

#21. If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.

Sandy Koufax

#22. I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. (Babe) Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as (Willie) Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder.

Sandy Koufax

#23. I can't picture people talking about me 50 years from now.

Sandy Koufax

#24. The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

Sandy Koufax

#25. Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Sandy Koufax

#26. I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.

Osman Baydemir

#27. If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.

Sandy Koufax

#28. I don't think I've ever seen anybody with quicker hands than Soriano.

Sandy Koufax

#29. People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

Sandy Koufax

#30. A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

Sandy Koufax