Quotes About Don Drysdale

#1. When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.

Don Drysdale

#2. But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him.

Juan Marichal

#3. In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.

Don Drysdale

#4. Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice.

Lao-Tzu

#5. Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.

Don Drysdale

#6. A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.

Don Drysdale

#7. It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.

Don Drysdale

#8. If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

Don Drysdale

#9. My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

Don Drysdale

#10. The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

Don Drysdale

#11. Gain control of the mind and make it still, initially just during periods of meditation, but then throughout the day and throughout the night.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Always wear a good watch, no matter what if you are wearing a suit or sweats. A good watch will hold value over time. It's not about the brightest or the biggest diamonds, it's about quality mechanisms, the heritage of the company you're buying it from.

Trey Songz

#13. The Houston Astros are the youngest team in the National League if you judge by age.

Don Drysdale

#14. That words have the power to change us.

Cassandra Clare

#15. He (Don Drysdale) talks very well for a guy who's had two fingers in his mouth all his life.

Gene Mauch

#16. A blank page of paper and a pen is the greatest invention its so exciting to be confronted by possibility.

Nicky Wire

#17. I love my country enough to risk its wrath by drawing attention to the negative things we don't always want to see. And that can be risky and you have to pay for that. (Ramon Estevez) on Inside the Actor's Studio

Martin Sheen

#18. When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.

Don Drysdale

#19. I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.

Don Drysdale

#20. Well don't demand the spotlight if you can't handle the attention.

Melissa Hill

#21. Where do you want it?

Don Drysdale

#22. Open yer mind to the world, kids. No point havin' yer windows open if yer don't pull back the curtains to let in the light! - Grandpa's favourite saying to Kirsten and Jeremy. Quoted in The Hybrid and the Emeralds of Elisar

Suellen Drysdale