Quotes About Brooks Robinson

#1. I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first.

Sparky Anderson

#2. Brooks Robinson is not a fast man, but his arms and legs move very quickly.

Curt Gowdy

#3. I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

Earl Weaver

#4. I hope the car they (Sport Magazine who awarded it to the World Series MVP) give him (Brooks Robinson) has an extra large glove box.

Sparky Anderson

#5. You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.

Monte Irvin

#6. I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers.

Frank Robinson

#7. One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer.

Josh Charles

#8. Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

Brooks Robinson

#9. I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

Bruce Chatwin

#10. This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

Brooks Robinson

#11. If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#12. I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.

Brooks Robinson

#13. I would read anything. Absolutely anything. I loved being transported somewhere else, even back in time.

Samantha Young

#14. Take time to thank everyone who has helped you along the way.

Brooks Robinson

#15. It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

Brooks Robinson

#16. If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

Brooks Robinson

#17. I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

Brooks Robinson

#18. I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.

Brooks Robinson

#19. Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.

Sir Ronald Fisher

#20. How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!

Charles Lamb

#21. He (Hoyt Wilhelm) had the best knuckleball you'd ever want to see. He knew where it was going when he threw it, but when he got two strikes on you, he'd break out one that even he didn't know where it was going.

Brooks Robinson

#22. Miss Finch said she meant to listen to new books as well as her old favorites, even the ones that pierced her heart, before she departed this world.

Jane Hamilton

#23. Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.

Brooks Robinson

#24. Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.

Sergey Brin

#25. I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

Brooks Robinson

#26. I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.

Brooks Robinson

#27. The face is a plain one," said Hugh, "but the workings inside will not fail ye.

Susanna Kearsley

#28. Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts.

Brooks Robinson

#29. There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.

Kiera Cass

#30. Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

Brooks Robinson

#31. Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets.

Michael Douglas

#32. I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

Brooks Robinson

#33. No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

Knut Hamsun

#34. She raised her head finally. He looked the same, but then, he always did. She'd seem him kill twice, and he betrayed no reaction at all. He was a monster, not even human.
But he was her monster ...

Anne Stuart