Koufax's Quotes

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

Tommy John

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

Larry King

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

Yogi Berra

#4. I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.

Hans Vestberg

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

Sandy Koufax

#6. I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Juan Marichal

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

Sandy Koufax

#9. Sometime I wish if I were from Mars, because no one loves me here.

M.F. Moonzajer

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

Sparky Anderson

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

Sandy Koufax

#12. 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

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

Whitey Herzog

#15. 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

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

Gene Mauch

#17. I told 'em! I told 'em! I told 'em!" he said. "I'll give 'em the wrong end of a ragman's trumpet, so I shall. Bug'r'em. Millennium hand and shrimp! I told 'em!

Terry Pratchett

#18. You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?

Nikita Gill

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

Willie Stargell

#20. 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

#21. Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.

Barbara Ann Kipfer

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

Sandy Koufax

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

Sandy Koufax

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

Sandy Koufax

#25. You're beautiful, Genesis." I swallowed, placing my hands on the table in front of her. "Immortals would fight wars over you, and not just your face or your hair or the way your smile penetrates to someone's very soul - but because you're good.

Rachel Van Dyken

#26. I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.

Craig Ferguson

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

Sandy Koufax

#28. To draw close to Divinity is to come to appreciate man as a divine creation, for "If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 343).

Robert L. Millet

#29. 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

#30. Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Sandy Koufax

#31. 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

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

Sandy Koufax

#33. Smee, you are a supreme idjit."
"Aye, Cap'n.

Ridley Pearson

#34. I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or system, that one is really astonished that there are so many people who devote themselves to it - and, still worse, it is absolutely devoid of any rigor.

Niels Henrik Abel

#35. Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.

Peter Tork

#36. 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

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

Whitey Ford