Top 53 Uecker Quotes
#1. Yount, who was an 18-year-old shortstop when he met Uecker, and is one of Bob's closest friends, noticed immediately that the event was held in the afternoon with only a smattering of media members on hand. "God, this unbelievable," Yount said. "Fifty thousand empty seats. What a ceremony.
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#2. I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.
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#3. I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn't appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.
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#4. I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he didn't have that kind of dough. But he eventually scraped it up.
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#5. The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.
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#6. I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it's never at the expense of the other guy.
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#7. I remember one time I'm batting against the Dodgers in Milwaukee. They lead, 2 - 1, it's the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two out and the pitcher has a full count on me. I look over to the Dodger dugout and they're all in street clothes.
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#8. Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
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#9. I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.
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#10. Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television ... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
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#11. Between me and my roommate, we've hit 400 Major League home runs.
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#12. People don't know this, but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it!
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#13. I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have that kinda money to put out.
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#14. I would order a dozen bats and there were times they'd come back with handles at each end.
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#15. I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.
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#16. I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.
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#17. Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.
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#18. Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
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#19. I was acting when I was playing baseball.
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#20. I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.
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#21. I led the league in go get 'em next time.
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#22. I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.
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#23. Anyone with talent can play in the Major Leagues; for someone like me to stay around as long as I did, I think that's a much greater acheivement.
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#24. After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.
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#25. Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
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#26. How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.
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#27. Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship - and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.
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#28. The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.
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#29. I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.
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#30. I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment.
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#31. You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.
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#32. When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.
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#33. They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don't find the eggs, they get booed.
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#34. My kids used to do things to aggravate me, too. I'd take them to a game, and they'd want to come home with a different player.
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#35. Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist.
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#36. People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn't hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time - I would say eight to 10 cookouts.
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#37. When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.
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#38. I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves.
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#39. Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.
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#40. We were on for six years. We were in syndication for a while. It had its run. I still see the people from 'Mr. Belvedere,' too. We stay in touch.
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#41. Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.
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#42. On TV the people can see it. On radio you've got to create it.
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#43. When I played baseball I got death threats all the time
from my mother.
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#44. Career highlights? I had two - I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.
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#45. You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year ... unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.
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#46. Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.
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#47. If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.
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#48. I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
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#49. I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I've enjoyed doing the games. I don't ever go to the park where I don't have a good day. I don't like losing. But I don't think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don't think once.
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#50. Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.
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#51. I had slumps that lasted into the winter.
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#52. I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.
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#53. In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
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