Yount 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.

Bill Schroeder

#2. I was a corporate trouble-shooter for many years, and I know what it is like to walk very carefully into a hostile environment.

Charles Todd

#3. Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

Jean De La Bruyere

#4. It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#5. Don't believe in success. Rather than that, believe in the amount of your effort and passion.

Seungri

#6. You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

Robin Yount

#7. I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

Robin Yount

#8. My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

Robin Yount

#9. You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

Robin Yount

#10. When a bird flies too high, it loses its song. -- Old Chinese Proverb

Rebecca Yount

#11. I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.

Robin Yount

#12. In Judaism, there are a lot of rules - everything from which fingernail you cut first to which side you sleep on in bed, to the way you get dressed in the morning, to actual ideas, like ideas about being chosen people or ideas about female/male and how to interact with people from the opposite sex.

Matisyahu

#13. I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.

Robin Yount

#14. You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

Robin Yount

#15. I realize now what a great job my wife Michelle did, not only in raising our children, Melissa, Amy, Dustin, and Jenna, but in taking care of me.

Robin Yount

#16. You know no one ever accomplishes something like this without a lot of help from good people along the way. And this is certainly true in my case, and I would like to thank some of those people.

Robin Yount

#17. But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.

Robin Yount

#18. The first domesticated animal was the scapegoat.

Yanko Tsvetkov

#19. I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of the consummate folly of attempting to go away from here! When the constant endeavor should be to get nearer and nearer here!

Henry David Thoreau

#20. And some will believe. The fools. But others will not. Red and Silver, high and low, some will see the truth.

Victoria Aveyard

#21. My brother Larry. He taught me how hard work and dedication to the game was the only way to make it. He's taken care of all my business activities for me and my family for many years, and I thank him for that.

Robin Yount

#22. I don't know what laws of physics are involved, but if you fill a gym with teenagers
and tell them to stare at one object, heat is actually produced. I half expected to
spontaneously combust.
Katrina

Suzanne Selfors

#23. And George Brett. I think most people know that George and I have become pretty good friends over the years.

Robin Yount

#24. Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?

Peter Jennings

#25. I was also very lucky to be a teammate of two of the greatest players to have ever played the game. I learned very early on by playing for Frank Robinson and with Henry Aaron that even the greatest players in the game were just one of the guys.

Robin Yount