Quotes About Bob Gibson

#1. The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.

Pete Rose

#2. I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!

Tim McCarver

#3. The only people I ever felt intimidated by in my whole life were Bob Gibson and my Daddy.

Dusty Baker

#4. I managed Dal Maxvill, and he's now our general manager. I managed Bob Gibson. He's a broadcaster. Tim McCarver. Bill White. Nellie Briles. He used to be a broadcaster. I tried to count them up one time.

Red Schoendienst

#5. He (Bob Gibson) pitches as though he's double-parked.

Vin Scully

#6. Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.

Tim McCarver

#7. One of my favorite albums is Bob Gibson and Bob Camp, 'At the Gate of Horn.' It was a really dynamic album, almost like The Beatles, and way before its time ... around 1960 or so.

Roger McGuinn

#8. I'm no Bob Gibson. I can tell you that.

Eli Manning

#9. ...we have a high calling etched into our bones and written on our hearts. God wants to engage us...and deliver us into a life He has dreamed for us... We were made to explore.

Richard Foth

#10. Maybe it don't seem to make sense for a fella to be doing things for a reason that he don't know about. But I reckon I've been doing it most of my life.

Jim Thompson

#11. When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

Bob Gibson

#12. I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.

John Malkovich

#13. Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing quite like the thrill of the catch.

Bob Gibson

#14. It is not something I earned or acquired or bought (the ability to pitch). It is a gift. It is something that was given to me - just like the color of my skin.

Bob Gibson

#15. A book is a path of words which takes the heart in new directions.

John O'Donohue

#16. Believe me, I would much rather get three outs on three pitches than three outs on nine pitches, because that's going to make me that much stronger at the end of the game. My pitching philosophy is simpe. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

Bob Gibson

#17. A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.

Bob Gibson

#18. Saturday night in Toledo Ohio, Is like being nowhere at all, All through the day how the hours rush by, You sit in the park and you watch the grass die.

John Denver

#19. I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.

Bob Gibson

#20. A curve ball is not something you can pick up overnight. It took me years to perfect mine.

Bob Gibson

#21. Perfect love was that kind of love that made no sense but made everything else make sense somehow. It was raw and unscripted, turbulent and slightly unpredictable.

Laura Miller

#22. I have very good friends who are in the army and also friends within the police force. When I say friends, people who love my music and who actually love the messages within my music.

Thomas Mapfumo

#23. When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.

Bob Gibson

#24. This is the last of earth! I am content.

John Quincy Adams

#25. The greatest challenges humans face throw-out their lives are two:
1- the challenge of where to start
2- the challenge of when to stop

Sameh Elsayed

#26. Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.

Bob Gibson

#27. In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

Bob Gibson

#28. Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid.

Bob Gibson

#29. The basis of intimidation as I practiced it was mystery. I wanted the hitter to know nothing about me.

Bob Gibson

#30. If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#31. I swung my head around and

James Patterson

#32. I could be a real jerk on the days I was pitching.

Bob Gibson

#33. If Michelle Pfeiffer gave Mel Gibson a vial of blood to wear around his neck in a movie you'd think it was terribly romantic, everyone would cry and they'd win awards. But in real life if someone does that they'd be considered weird.

Billy Bob Thornton

#34. When I knocked a guy down, there was no second part to the story.

Bob Gibson