Quotes About Sandy Koufax

#1. I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

Yogi Berra

#2. I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.

Juan Marichal

#3. The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over.

Sparky Anderson

#4. Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

Larry King

#5. We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

Whitey Herzog

#6. He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.

Gene Mauch

#7. Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.

Willie Stargell

#8. Career highlights? I had two - I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.

Bob Uecker

#9. I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. (Babe) Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as (Willie) Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder.

Sandy Koufax

#10. The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable.

Lord Chesterfield

#11. If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.

Sandy Koufax

#12. I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

Sandy Koufax

#13. Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

Sandy Koufax

#14. The freedom of individuals from compulsion or coercion never was, and is not now, the normal state of human affairs. The normal state for the ordinary person is tyranny, arbitrary control and abuse mainly by their own government.

Walter E. Williams

#15. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Aristotle.

#16. He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.

Sandy Koufax

#17. There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.

Sandy Koufax

#18. I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years ... I only had four or five good years.

Sandy Koufax

#19. I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

Sandy Koufax

#20. There's no way to use power for good.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#21. I can't picture people talking about me 50 years from now.

Sandy Koufax

#22. The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

Sandy Koufax

#23. Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Sandy Koufax

#24. If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.

Sandy Koufax

#25. Some people want everything to be perfect before they're willing to commit ... But commitment always precedes achievement.

John C. Maxwell

#26. My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.

J. C. Watts

#27. I don't think I've ever seen anybody with quicker hands than Soriano.

Sandy Koufax

#28. People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

Sandy Koufax

#29. A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

Sandy Koufax

#30. The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence ... The individual, in order to make use of technical instruments, no longer needs to know about his civilization.

Jacques Ellul