Rizzuto Quotes

#1. One of the best things about being a Yankee is that you have guys like Whitey Ford, Phil Rizzuto, Ron Guidry and Reggie Jackson wandering around the locker room offering you advice.

Derek Jeter

#2. I don't know if it's good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto!

Yogi Berra

#3. You don't have to be big to be a big leaguer. Look at Phil Rizzuto. He's really small and he's been one of the greatest that ever was.

Nellie Fox

#4. I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4-1/2 minutes. When they asked him what it was like being dead, he said it was like listening to Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto during a rain delay.

David Letterman

#5. I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.

Phil Rizzuto

#6. It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you.

Drake

#7. Those huckleberries in the National League don't want to do anything that the American League wants to do.

Phil Rizzuto

#8. But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.

Donald Evans

#9. They've got so many Latin players we're going to have to get a Latin instructor up here.

Phil Rizzuto

#10. I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.

Phil Rizzuto

#11. I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.

Phil Rizzuto

#12. Sire," said M. Myriel, "you are looking at a good man, and I at a great man. Each of us can profit by it.

Victor Hugo

#13. But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

Lurlene McDaniel

#14. Well, that kind of puts a damper on even a Yankee win.

Phil Rizzuto

#15. a last glimmer of intelligence (p. 79)

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#16. There was an aura about him (Joe DiMaggio). He walked like no one else walked. He did things so easily. He was immaculate in everything he did. Kings of State wanted to meet him and be with him. He carried himself so well. He could fit in any place in the world.

Phil Rizzuto

#17. Hey, White, you know where your loyalties are? Right here. The old pinstripes. No! You never wore them ... So you have a right to sing the blues.

Phil Rizzuto

#18. This belief makes God a truly amazing object. He is the only relevant object who has not undergone and cannot undergo reality testing.

Ana-Maria Rizzuto

#19. I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment
that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build up and control the affairs of a large education institution. I knew that if we failed it wold injure the whole race.

Booker T. Washington