Top 43 Whitey Quotes
#1. You look at the descriptions of Whitey by law enforcement during his early years, and they sum him up pretty well. He was the same guy 40 years later; he just had $40 million more, and had committed 40 more murders.
Howie Carr
#2. 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
#3. I'm Mexican-American. My dad was actually born in Mexico. He was raised up there, and he came back and forth to America pretty much his whole teenage years. My mom is from Sacramento, California, and she's a blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl. She's a whitey.
Ryan Guzman
#4. It's been insane. From Whitey Bulger to the Mad Hatter, you can imagine the schizophrenia.
Johnny Depp
#5. In my early performing days, I played gigs under the pseudonym Whitey McFearsun. I painted my face blue, wore crimson lipstick, and strung on some tight silver latex pants.
Shawn Amos
#6. Shorty felt about the war the same way I and most ghetto Negroes did:
Whitey owns everything. He wants us to go and bleed for him? Let him fight.
Malcolm X
#7. 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
#9. 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
#10. Lord loves a workin' man; don't trust whitey
Steve Martin
#11. Donald Trump had a university. Well, the state attorney general decided that the Donald Trump University was an unlicensed sham. And I thought, you know you're at a bad university when your commencement speaker is Whitey Bulger.
David Letterman
#12. Haters call me bitch, call me faggot, call me whitey, but I am something you could never be
Marilyn Manson
#13. One of my fears would be getting torn apart by a great white shark. I love the ocean, but I always have this deep fear of getting torn apart by a great whitey.
Theo James
#14. I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.
Mickey Mantle
#15. I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.
Chris Pratt
#16. Joe Berlinger's documentary 'Whitey' is so hard-hitting and compelling, you can't take your eyes off the screen.
Leonard Maltin
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.
Whitey Ford
#21. What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.
Whitey Herzog
#22. If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs.
Whitey Herzog
#23. Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.
Whitey Herzog
#24. I know Koufax' weakness. He can't hit.
Whitey Ford
#25. A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.
Whitey Herzog
#26. For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.
Whitey Herzog
#27. I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
Whitey Herzog
#29. We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.
Whitey Herzog
#30. Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.
Whitey Ford
#31. Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to ... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.
Whitey Ford
#32. There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.
Whitey Ford
#33. The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.
Whitey Herzog
#34. 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
#35. You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.
Whitey Herzog
#36. We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.
Whitey Herzog
#37. You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.
Whitey Ford
#38. The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan.
Whitey Ford
#39. The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three days.
Whitey Herzog
#40. The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.
Whitey Herzog
#41. 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
#42. The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).
Whitey Herzog
#43. Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.
Whitey Herzog
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