Bob Uecker Quotes about Sports

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

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.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

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.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn't appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.