Dizzy Dean Quotes

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• All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.
• Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.
• He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.
• He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall.
• Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts.
• I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?
• I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.
• If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series…
• I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a change…
• I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.
• It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?
• I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr.…
• Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they…
• Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine).
• Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.
• Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss.
• The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his…
• The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All…
• The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.
• Fans, don't fail to miss tomorrow's game.

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