Quotes About The Phillies

#1. 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

#2. The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.

Jerry Coleman

#3. I have great memories of being a Cub, and I'm happy building new ones with the Phillies.

Ryne Sandberg

#4. Pull-heavy, right-handed hitters should also have seen shifts, but rarely did. According to BIS's database, the first shift employed against a right-handed hitter in the modern era didn't occur until June 11, 2009, when the Phillies shifted left against Gary Sheffield.

Travis Sawchik

#5. I'd like to get out of Philadelphia. I don't care for the people or their attitude, although they don't bother me or my play. But maybe the Phillies can get a couple of broken bats and shower shoes for me.

Richie Allen

#6. The Phillies in the 1960s had shortstop Bobby Wine and second baseman Cookie Rojas, a period known as the Days of Wine and Rojas.

Tim Kurkjian

#7. The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are playing well, or the Cubs, the Phillies, the big-name teams.

Pete Rose

#8. Philadelphians are intensely loyal. They don't switch teams even when the Sixers lose by 63 points or the Phillies finish last in the NL East.

Steve Capus

#9. 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

#10. Tony Taylor was one of the first acquisitions that the Phillies made when they reconstructed their team. They got him from Philadelphia.

Jerry Coleman

#11. I want to be a starter again, I would really enjoy playing for the Phillies again, but my first consideration in making my decision is finding a circumstance that is right for me. I want to play for the Phillies again, but I also wouldn't mind joining a team I've never played with before.

Chan Ho Park

#12. I never forgot the four years I spent with the Phillies, my September call-ups and my big league Spring Trainings. I never forgot that.

Ryne Sandberg

#13. Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.

Steve Carlton

#14. Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.

Steve Carlton

#15. Only God knows why I didn't make it with the Mets, but yes, in a short period of time, I got the opportunity with the Phillies.

Pedro Martinez

#16. I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.

George Mason

#17. When my son first started to take the subway, my husband and I used to follow him to make sure he was all right, and then we had to stop following him and let him do it by himself.

Julianne Moore

#18. The history of [Mariano] Rivera is pretty unbelievable. And even if you're not a Yankee or a baseball fan, you have to appreciate the tradition. He gets respect from Boston fans and Phillies fans, and I love tradition.

Andrea Tantaros

#19. I love my baseball, and I love my Phillies.

Chad Hurley

#20. The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 world champions of baseball.

Harry Kalas

#21. We tell stories to live, to love, to prosper and to fail.

Bill Willingham

#22. I grew up a Phillies fan. Me and my buddies tailgated a couple of times when they won the World Series. I like just being in that atmosphere.

Mike Trout

#23. habits emerge without our permission.

Charles Duhigg

#24. My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.

Patti Smith

#25. I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it.

George Burns

#26. My books are my staple diet. As serious as insulin doses for those who are diabetics!

Hlovate

#27. When I arrived in France aged 20, I marched against the death penalty, which was an unpopular thing to protest against at the time.

Jane Birkin

#28. The march to freedom is irreversible.

Nelson Mandela

#29. Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me.

Pat Gillick

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Tom Douglas

#31. You and I must live temptation-aware; to fail to do so is to fail to recognize the fallenness of the world that happens to be the address where we live.

Paul David Tripp

#32. If I had to give advice about parents, it would be this: Value your relationships with them. Those relationships are what you stand for. Not only are we blessed to wear a uniform that says PHILLIES on the front, but we have our names on the back. That name means you're playing for your family.

Jim Thome

#33. I'm a Philadelphia sports fanatic. I still watch Phillies games on my iPad, which is basically admitting to having daily torture sessions.

Steve Capus

#34. To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive

R.C. Sproul

#35. I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

Mia Wasikowska