Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Dickey. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Dickey Quotes And Sayings by 84 Authors including Grantland Rice,J. B. Smoove,Ogden Nash,Jerry Coleman,Carl Yastrzemski for you to enjoy and share.
Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.
True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
Philo Vance / Needs a kick in the pance.
Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.
Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.
Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.
I'm working on a new pitch. It's called a strike.
He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.
Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.
Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.
Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.
If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.
I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.
If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.
Mike Laga will make you forget about every power hitter that ever lived.
I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.
I'm not a big baseball fan, to be honest.
If my name was Richard, I'd go by Richard or Rich ... not Dick. Hell I'd even settle for being called Chard.
Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.
Greaseball, greaseball, greaseball, that's all I throw him (Rod Carew), and he still hits them. He's the only player in baseball who consistently hits my grease. He sees the ball so well, I guess he can pick out the dry side.
The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.
The way we're going ... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.
I never saw a pitcher I didn't feel sorry for.
Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. I've never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.
I'm no George Brett, and I probably never will be.
Billy Loes was the only player in the majors who could lose a ground ball in the sun
I really like Dontrelle Willis' pitch; he's animated on the mound and is fun to watch - he gets into the game emotionally.
(Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases ...
There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate.
If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.
I guess I'm the only guy old enough to figure him (Nolan Ryan, 1-Hitter Game in 1991) out.
What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.
He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.
I don't think I've ever seen anybody with quicker hands than Soriano.
Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
Branch Rickey made me a better man.
There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
In August 1945, a former Army pilot with an artificial leg pitched five and a third innings for Washington against Boston. This would turn out to be Bert Shepard's only major league game, and it remains one of the heartwarming moments in baseball history.
My dad likes to tease me over this. We weren't there at Fenway, and it wasn't a consequential game, but Trot Nixon let a ball go through his legs, and from that moment on, I hated Trot Nixon. Really irrational. Based in nothing. But did not like him.
To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time.
Ladies and gentlemen, the great number seven, Mickey Mantle.
He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.
You better be looking for another pitcher.
Who is his manager? Milton Bradley.
I'm not sure what the hell charisma is, but I get the feeling it's Willie Mays.
On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett. He was a Hall of Famer in every sense of the term. He was revered throughout the country and will be remembered wherever the game is played. Kirby was taken from us much too soon - and too quickly.
Mr. Davis, 66, who is known as Sluggo,
I could hit the damn ball. No matter who was throwing. Or where the ball was. I left the bench swinging. I didn't get many walks.
I don't know how the 'Richie' started. My name is Richard, and they called me Dick in the minor leagues.
I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy.
If I have to win one game, I'd have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.
batter hell-bent on hitting a home run.
A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.
I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.
Greg Maddux could put a baseball through a life saver if you asked him.
I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.
Well, Rickey's not one of them, so that's 49 percent right there.
Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.
I'm glad I don't have to face that guy (Don Mattingly) every day. He has that look that few hitters have. I don't know if it's his stance, his eyes or what, but you can tell he means business.
Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.
As I have said many times - my father was a great fan of Bill Dickey's and he certainly loved the Yankees. I hope that he would be pleased.
Nothing's impossible for Rickey. You don't have enough fingers and toes to count out Rickey.
What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan?
I feel like not knowing Joe Torre is a hole in my New York experience.
A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
He's the meanest one. We call him..Byrd the Turd
Teams can't prepare for me in batting practice. They can't find anyone who throws as slow as I do.
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
Roger Clemens is one of the most wonderful men I've ever known. I loved him very much ... still love him to this day. He treated me like a princess.
wreck but Trot Nixon's fair ball nestled in his glove.
I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway.
Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.
You see him coming in with an 0-2 record and a 5 ERA and you wonder, 'How? How's that possible?
BOB PROCTOR If you see it in your mind, you're going to hold it in your hand.
I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.
A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.
The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.
Rickey was never motivated by stats. He was motivated by numbers. Wins, runs, steals.
To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.
I give him (Frank Howard during April 28, 1968 two-hitter) shoulder, back, foot and the ball last," and Frank Howard commented, "He threw everything at me but the ball.
You know what they say about big hitters ... the woods are full of them.
I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'
The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.
His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.
I want to be to the White Sox what Derek Jeter is to the Yankees..
When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's.
To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.
More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
Needless to say, I have more no-hitters than Nolan Ryan.
And George Brett. I think most people know that George and I have become pretty good friends over the years.
Trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe.
I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner. I mean I once threw a side arm spitter right into his belly and he hit it into the upper deck.
Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.
Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.
Got any pitches? I got five pitches-rise-ball, curveball, screwball, drop-ball and changeup.
Born on third base and think they hit a triple,
Every day I wake up and go to sleep, I'm thinking about beating Cub Swanson
If you want to split a bottle with a friend, then Sammy Hagar is your guy. If you want to split your friend with a bottle than give me a call.