Mccovey's Quotes

#1. Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either.

Jerry Coleman

#2. Somehow, having an office that I had to go to made me want to work from home, which is easier to do if you don't have a boss waiting for you at the office, even a very blue office.

Chelsea Cain

#3. McCovey swings and misses, and it's fouled back.

Jerry Coleman

#4. In my first year, when I was driving in runs, winning games and making headlines, there was an old man who came to games at Seals Stadium, and one day he called me over, introduced himself and told me not to believe anything written about me or think too much of all the accolades.

Willie McCovey

#5. I loved coming up with players in scoring position and I had to drive them in.

Willie McCovey

#6. It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

Willie McCovey

#7. I've always had a connection here in the city from the first day I arrived. I stayed in the city. I made San Francisco my home. I was seen in the offseason at a lot of different functions, and people liked that.

Willie McCovey

#8. Winning is a serious matter.

Willie McCovey

#9. Egalitarian policies are the best way to unite and empower people, and are also a necessary counterweight to the sometimes detrimental influence of market forces.

Johanna Siguroardottir

#10. I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate.

Willie McCovey

#11. Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.

Willie McCovey

#12. I think that to be a competitive athlete, you have to be goal-oriented.

Shannon Miller

#13. Miss Bingley was left to the satisfaction of having forced him to say what gave no one any pain but herself.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#14. I was doing what I love to do: play baseball. Not going to complain about that.

Willie McCovey

#15. Pardon me, Mr. Craig, but how are we going to defense Mr. McCovey ... in the upper deck or the lower deck?

Casey Stengel

#16. I had pain in both knees my whole career. Not many athletes play pain-free. Mine was just more than normal.

Willie McCovey

#17. Even during my career, when I read all those great things about me, it's almost like I was reading about someone else. It's almost like there was another person.

Willie McCovey

#18. I could run like a gazelle, couldn't I?

Willie McCovey

#19. That which endures is not one or another association of living forms, but the process of which the cosmos is the product, and of which these are among the transitory expressions.

Thomas Huxley

#20. Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.

Jerry Coleman