Quotes About Al Kaline

#1. Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.

Hal Newhouser

#2. I'll never forget that first night with the team. Going to the ballpark on the bus was the hardest 30 minutes of my life. I had to walk down that aisle between all the players. I really didn't know too much about the Detroit Tigers at that time.

Al Kaline

#3. I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Anthony Bourdain

#4. I started in for the ball but I just couldn't get it. I should have caught it because I was used to catching everything on the sandlots. But they hit the ball a lot harder in the major leagues and I just couldn't reach the ball this time.

Al Kaline

#5. Let me repeat what history teaches. History teaches.

Gertrude Stein

#6. In 1970, I was turning 29 years old, just 4 years out of art school. I had created a black and white drawing style mascot portrait called 'Johnny.' I made a poster for it and sent it around the world to corporate art departments.

John Van Hamersveld

#7. As the days went on, I didn't mind the games. In fact, I looked forward to them. That was the easiest part of all. I couldn't wait to get to the ballpark I'd be the first one there and I was willing to do anything. I think that's why the veterans liked me.

Al Kaline

#8. I'm probably more into a more spacious, even meditative, quiet delivery of singing.

Dan Bejar

#9. I can't take another day of this.

Al Kaline

#10. I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.

Al Kaline

#11. Beware of losing yourself in the personality of another being, man or woman.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#12. One of my opponents [Romney] recently said that it would take an act of God for me to win this primary. I agree with him.

Rick Santorum

#13. People who work in financial services don't have one shred of concern about the well-being of the people they serve. They're only interested in themselves.

Barry Schwartz

#14. It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.

Al Kaline

#15. This time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with.

Al Kaline

#16. The most relaxing thing i do, hang halfway out a 3rd floor window, and look at rocks if i fall out. Well maybe i'll fall hard, something tough to break me, something sharp to rip into my insides and bleed out all that pain.

Al Kaline

#17. Players shy away from talking to announcers today.

Al Kaline

#18. I don't need any more press. I get enough when I work, but environmental causes is one place where you can get me to open my mouth. And put my foot in it if necessary. I think the only thing I do that gives me any bragging rights in terms of energy conservation is sailing. Just using wind power.

Morgan Freeman

#19. Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too.

Al Kaline

#20. What gets me upset about with the newer players is their lack of intensity. They tend to go through the motions a little bit. They don't understand that you've got to practice the way you play.

Al Kaline

#21. I didn't know who was on the team, but I saw every eye as I walked down the aisle. It looked like a thousand eyes were staring right at me saying, 'Who is this young punk?' I just kept my eyes straight ahead.

Al Kaline

#22. You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Al Kaline

#23. If he took her into his arms, he would keep her. He wouldn't let her suffer the way the other mortals had when he'd left them. He would keep her, with his court's permission or without it. Irial wouldn't take her, and Keenan wouldn't stand between them.

Melissa Marr

#24. All of a sudden I'm in the major leagues and we're traveling from town to town. I see the other players dressing different every day. I've got only one suit and I keep wearing it over and over. I'm really embarrassed.

Al Kaline

#25. Look at how goddamn ugly the stars are.

Al Kaline

#26. Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.

Al Kaline