Duke Snider Quotes

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• You don't have to win to be a winner. If you give 100 percent, getting yourself mentally and physically prepared to play the game, if…
• He (Jackie Robinson) knew he had to do well. He knew that the future of blacks in baseball depended on it. The pressure was enormous,…
• He (Jackie Robinson) was the greatest competitor I've ever seen. I've seen him beat a team with his bat, his ball, his glove, his feet…
• In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride,…
• Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the…
• My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.
• The sport to which I owe so much has undergone profound changes, but it's still baseball. Kids still imitate their heroes on playgrounds. Fans still…
• The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it. In later years, friends of ours visited Ireland and said the grass there…
• We wept, Brooklyn was a lovely place to hit. If you got a ball in the air, you had a chance to get it out.…
• My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac. If I were to get paid a million, I'd feel that I…
• You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.
• Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.
• What a player does best, he should practice least. Practice is for problems.

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