Quotes About Mike Schmidt

#1. I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If you want to be a right-handed power hitter, watch Mike Schmidt. If you just want to be a hitter, watch me.

Pete Rose

#2. I was taught coming up in the Phillies organization to be seen and not heard by people like Pete Rose, my hero growing up, and players like Mike Schmidt and Steve Carlton and Manny Trillo.

Ryne Sandberg

#3. I sort of ride the fence on that whole steroid era issue. I don't have a definite opinion like some of my fellow Hall of Famers. Some of the guys were very, very adamant about a person being associated with steroids: 'They'll never be in the Hall of Fame. If they are, I'll never come back.'

Mike Schmidt

#4. I DON'T WANT YOUR GIRL SCOUT COOKIES!" I yelled to the figure behind the door.

Mike Schmidt

#5. At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.

David Eagleman

#6. Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.

Mike Schmidt

#7. When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.

Bodhidharma

#8. I'm 61 now, and I'm comfortable in my lifestyle ... I don't yearn for the limelight on a regular basis. I get a kick out of it every so often. I go to Philly and go to a game, and they make a big deal about me. That's fun for a couple of days, and I can go back to my own private life.

Mike Schmidt

#9. If you want to stop someone from remembering something, the key is to use distraction.

Kevin Dutton

#10. That was one of the most comfortable things about leaving baseball was to leave the environment. It's very much like a rock star existence - the nightlife, the hotels, lack of privacy ... There's a lot of temptations out there. It was nice getting away from it.

Mike Schmidt

#11. Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.

Mike Schmidt

#12. I've got to tell you right out of the chute, Ryan Howard, to me, is very interested in my input in his hitting. To me that makes me really feel good. We've chatted over the years about hitting.

Mike Schmidt

#13. Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

Mike Schmidt

#14. If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

Mike Schmidt

#15. At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.

Cara Delevingne

#16. You cannot command love, Lady, only beauty or lust does that. Do you want the world to be fair? Then just imagine a world with no kings, no queens, no lords, no passion and no magic. You would want to live in such a dull world?

Bernard Cornwell

#17. The United Kingdom and the European Union will remain indispensable partners of the United States even as they begin negotiating their ongoing relationship to ensure continued stability, security and prosperity for Europe, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the world.

Barack Obama

#18. If you're associated with the Philadelphia media or town, you look for negatives. I don't know if there's something about their upbringing or they have too many hoagies, or too much cream cheese.

Mike Schmidt

#19. I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

Mike Schmidt

#20. Sometimes there's a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I've ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.

Billy Connolly

#21. They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

Mike Schmidt

#22. Virtually every civilized society today holds sacred the right to peaceably bury their dead.

Mike Schmidt

#23. Don't judge based on what you see, judge based on what you know, because the two are rarely similar.

Markus Peterson

#24. I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

Mike Schmidt

#25. I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.

Mike Schmidt

#26. The angry lesbian stereotype is true - Im one of them - but underneath that there is fun and frolic and we need to show that a little bit more now.

Jill Bennett

#27. But remember this: in the final analysis, you can believe in your dream, you can be taught, supported, motivated, and loved by others, but ultimately, your success depends on you. You must take responsibility for your body, your mind, and for your character.

Mike Schmidt

#28. Gold Gloves are nice to have people mention. They're basically saying you're a pretty good defensive player along with everything else. But I was about the offensive side.

Mike Schmidt

#29. All right, all right for you, you pretentious kneecap! How would you like a punch in the eye?

Peter S. Beagle

#30. You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

Mike Schmidt

#31. I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.

Mike Schmidt

#32. We don't talk. We just swing. There is comfort in the act of swinging. True, unexpected comfort.

Lisa Schroeder

#33. It isn't that hard to get RBI's when you're hitting home runs, you generally get a least one.

Mike Schmidt