Quotes About Ozzie Smith

#1. He (Ozzie Smith) plays like he's on a mini-trampoline or wearing helium kangaroo shorts.

Andy Van Slyke

#2. Ozzie Smith just made another play that I've never seen anyone else make before, and I've seen him make it more often than anyone else ever has.

Jerry Coleman

#3. 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

#4. Ozzie Smith is out there roaming around like glass.

Jerry Coleman

#5. As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch it with my bare hand. I hit the ground, bounced back up, and threw Burroughs out at first.

Ozzie Smith

#6. I sincerely believe that there is nothing truly great in any man or woman except their character, their willingness to move beyond the realm of self and into a greater realm of selflessness. Giving back is the ultimate talent in life. That is the greatest trophy on my mantel.

Ozzie Smith

#7. I may not drive in 100 runs a year, but I can prevent 100 runs from scoring against us.

Ozzie Smith

#8. I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a fundamental error. Otherwise, the whole relativity theory collapses like a house of cards.

Albert Einstein

#9. I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.

Ozzie Smith

#10. My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.

Ozzie Smith

#11. No one paid attention to my offense. So having 2,000 hits is one of the things that is an accomplishment.

Ozzie Smith

#12. I won't give up what I enjoy to look perfect. I want to find a happy medium between feeling good about my body and still having a beer and some barbecue.

Miranda Lambert

#13. In Hell ... bad is good ... and I am second only to the Devil.

Felicity Heaton

#14. I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger.

Ozzie Smith

#15. I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.

Ozzie Smith

#16. You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

Stephen Covey

#17. When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens.

Ozzie Smith

#18. It needs to be said that sometimes my mom forgets important details when she talks. Like the time she told us she was considering leather (couches, it turns out), or when I was little and she said, "Here's a napkin to put your balls in" (the Atomic Fireballs that I was eating, she meant).

Bill Konigsberg

#19. There are 22 million people who have, some point in time, played hooky from work or school, so it's already an unofficial holiday,

Ozzie Smith

#20. We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.

Ozzie Smith

#21. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear - civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness.
Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.
Men's Needs.

Arundhati Roy

#22. We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

Ozzie Smith

#23. Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

Edgar Degas

#24. Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.

Nicholas Sparks

#25. Directing is definitely something that is in my life for keeps, and the more I do it, the more I realize how much I want to learn and how much I have to give. And it kind of bolsters my acting - it enhances it in a really wonderful way that I wasn't expecting.

Carrie Preston