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Goose Gossage

(1951) Baseball Player

20 quotes in 180 categories

Goose Gossage is a baseball player, best known for The Goose is loose.

Quick Facts About Goose Gossage

Born: July 5, 1951
Profession: Baseball Player
Notable works: The Goose is loose

About Goose Gossage

Richard Michael "Goose" Gossage is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) between 1972 and 1994. He pitched for nine different teams, spending his best years with the New York Yankees and San Diego Padres.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Goose Gossage

Hitting in a game is no different than hitting in a home run contest. It pisses me off to say Barry Bonds…

Bats

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Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

Hard

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If your child's gonna be a star it's going to happen and just let it happen.

Children

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In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.

Best

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The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven…

Adversity

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I'd like to be remembered for the way I went about doing my job.

Jobs

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I was brought into situations God couldn't get out of, and I got out of them.

Funny

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The only urgency that I ever had was when my mom was alive. She died last year in September of 2006. She…

Alive

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These messages that we are sending our kids and the kind of lives people lead today so superficial it seems, just a…

Doe

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Bert Blyleven certainly was a starting pitcher that had tremendous success in the big leagues. Jimmy Rice, this guy if you had…

Answers

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Baseball as I have said before to many... many parents it's not about wins and losses. It's about the life lessons that…

Baseball

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I don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It…

Across

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Some of my greatest memories were on a little league field. We didn't even have any uniforms.

Fields

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I played for nine different teams throughout my 22-year major league career and I loved every moment of every team.

Careers

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I had set the standard for my style of relief pitching so high that when I came back to the rest of…

Done

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There is nobody that wants to win more than George Steinbrenner.

Want

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When I played, Old-Timers' Day was my favorite day of the whole season, because I got to share a locker with one…

Because

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The first year was weird. I knew I was just there to talk to pitchers and not step on any toes. I…

Adrenaline

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Every life lesson is on that baseball field.

Baseball

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I think that Jim Rice should be in the Hall of Fame. I think that Craig Nettles should be in the Hall…

Fame

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