Whitey Ford Quotes

#1. If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.

Mickey Mantle

#2. If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years.

Mickey Mantle

#3. 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

#4. The Greatest Living Yankee is Whitey Ford, who came out of Aviation High School, which was then in Manhattan, and helped pitch the Yankees to victory in the 1950 World Series when he was 21.

George Vecsey

#5. Everyone keeps me telling me how great a knee replacement is. Whitey Ford said it was great and so did Ralph Branca. If I had one of those, I don't know that I would retire. But if I left for a month or more, who's going to want me back?

Don Zimmer

#6. Just like the first breath of life, any engine must be triggered in order to turn it on.

Toba Beta

#7. Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

Whitey Ford

#8. If you take care of your body, it'll take care of you.

Oprah Winfrey

#9. I know Koufax' weakness. He can't hit.

Whitey Ford

#10. Of all of them there at the bar that night, the bartender was the one who survived the longest. He died three weeks later on the road out of the city.

Emily St. John Mandel

#11. ... where the two cities are close up they make for interference patterns, harder to read or predict. They are more than a city and a city; that is elementary urban arithmetic.

China Mieville

#12. I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

Whitey Ford

#13. Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to ... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

Whitey Ford

#14. There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.

Whitey Ford

#15. You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.

Whitey Ford

#16. The best advice I ever got came from my mother, Estee Lauder: She believed that if you had something good to say, you should put it in writing. But if you had something bad to say, you should tell the person to his or her face.

Leonard Lauder

#17. If there was anything she had learned from her mother, it was the painful understanding that cages come in all sizes - some even have white picket fences, four walls, and a front door.

Jamie Ford

#18. You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

Whitey Ford

#19. Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

Josh McDowell

#20. The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan.

Whitey Ford

#21. I know what it feels like to struggle with your weight, and it makes me understand why women get attached to numbers on a scale or a dress size. It doesn't mean that I have gotten over all of it myself, because I have good days and bad days just like everyone else.

Stacy London

#22. The man on the ceiling casts shadows of flesh, and sometimes the shadows take on lives of their own.

Melanie Tem

#23. Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around.

Whitey Ford