Quotes About Duke Snider

#1. It was a terrible psychic blow ... Ebbets Field was replaced by a housing project. How could a father tell his son where Duke Snider used to hit one? Point out Apartment 5Q?

Joe Flaherty

#2. He (Jackie Robinson) knew he had to do well. He knew that the future of blacks in baseball depended on it. The pressure was enormous, overwhelming, and unbearable at times. I don't know how he held up. I know I never could have.

Duke Snider

#3. The lilies say: Behold how we
Preach without words of purity.

Christina Rossetti

#4. Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life.

Rick Warren

#5. In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it.

Duke Snider

#6. Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

Duke Snider

#7. I was so poor growing up ... if I wasn't a boy ... I'd have nothing to play with.

Rodney Dangerfield

#8. Not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.

Duke Snider

#9. He (Jackie Robinson) was the greatest competitor I've ever seen. I've seen him beat a team with his bat, his ball, his glove, his feet and, in a game in Chicago one time, with his mouth.

Duke Snider

#10. We have all this freedom in America - freedom people fought and died for - and we're so afraid to exercise it. We're afraid to talk about things that might offend other people, afraid to do what we want because someone might call us a 'slut.

Tiffany Reisz

#11. I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.

Jack Wild

#12. The only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy; anything and everything else can pass out of fashion
even something as utilitarian as a hill stuffed full of corpses.

Scott Lynch

#13. You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.

Katherine Marsh

#14. We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out. When they tore down Ebbets Field, they tore down a little piece of me.

Duke Snider

#15. What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.

Duke Snider

#16. William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.

James Gray

#17. in the writing of good English is indispensable to any learned man who expects to make his learning count for what it ought to count in the effect on his fellow men.

Theodore Roosevelt

#18. Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.

Duke Snider

#19. Open the doors, the Russians say, here comes trouble. On

Penelope Fitzgerald

#20. You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.

Duke Snider

#21. There's a lot of pressure, and it's a long battle, to coach at the elite level. My wife and I didn't take a vacation for 10 years.

Liang Chow

#22. My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

Duke Snider

#23. You don't have to win to be a winner. If you give 100 percent, getting yourself mentally and physically prepared to play the game, if you look in the mirror and can say you give it everything to win, that's it. You're not going to win every time.

Duke Snider