Quotes About Dizzy Dean

#1. I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.

Dizzy Dean

#2. If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.

Dizzy Dean

#3. The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.

Dizzy Dean

#4. Practice, work hard, and give it everything you have.

Dizzy Dean

#5. I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

Dizzy Dean

#6. I always called him the Dizzy Dean of music, he was so belligerent and braggadocio ... But one thing I always noticed about Jelly, he would back everything he said by what he could do.

Omer Simeon

#7. Why, they shot the wrong McKinley!

Dizzy Dean

#8. The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks.

Dizzy Dean

#9. It ain't braggin if you can back it up...

Dizzy Dean

#10. I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean.

Branch Rickey

#11. Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.

Dizzy Dean

#12. I'd get me a bunch of bats and balls and sneak me a couple of umpires and learn them kids behind the Iron Curtain how to tote a bat and play baseball.

Dizzy Dean

#13. Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

Dizzy Dean

#14. As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.

Red Smith

#15. I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind.

Dizzy Dean

#16. Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.

Dizzy Dean

#17. I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.

Dizzy Dean

#18. Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.

Dizzy Dean

#19. I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet ole Satchel (Paige) shoots up to the plate.

Dizzy Dean

#20. It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?

Dizzy Dean

#21. I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy ... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean?

Branch Rickey

#22. I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?

Dizzy Dean

#23. All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

Dizzy Dean

#24. Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts.

Dizzy Dean

#25. He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall.

Dizzy Dean

#26. The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.

Dizzy Dean

#27. Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat.

Dizzy Dean

#28. Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

Dizzy Dean

#29. I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

Dizzy Dean

#30. Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine).

Dizzy Dean

#31. The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.

Dizzy Dean

#32. It ain't bragging if you can do it.

Dizzy Dean

#33. He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.

Dizzy Dean

#34. A lot of folks that ain't saying 'ain't,' ain't eating.

Dizzy Dean