Don Drysdale Quotes

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• The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.
• I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.
• When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.
• My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.
• In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and…
• A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts,…
• When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.
• If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.
• It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about…
• Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their…
• When the ball is over the middle of the plate, the batter is hitting it with the sweet part of the bat. When it's inside,…
• We're comfortable financially, so it wasn't a financial issue that I voted Conservative. Basically, it was for the same reason we voted for Diefenbaker. First…
• When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.
• After giving up a home run in an old timers game:

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