Bob Uecker Quotes

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

Perseverance and perspective until victory.

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

To be somebody you must last.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.

Success is survival.

To the stars through thorns.

I had started as an average athlete - a normal boy. It took me three years to win a race. I was glad that I endured those three years - that I did not give up.

As long as my body will allow me to play I'm going to continue to play.

The harder the race, the better.

You look at the challenges that have been put in front of me as a cricketer over a period of time. There have been quite a few. I'd like to think I've come through most of them.

I've come back from losses and won world titles.

I'm the type of guy who fails and fails and fails, and then, as if failure has become sick of him, succeeds.

There were a lot of people on the other side of the field saying, 'Maybe he's doing this, not doing that.' It's good to bounce back the year after and put up some good numbers, so they know that you're a guy who works.

When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one.

Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.

Persistent work triumphs.

Every time someone told me I couldn't, I did. I'm still the same guy who's responsible for one of the better Intercontinental runs of all time and changing that title.

I was told by thousands of people I would never make it.

You take records with a pinch of salt. Take Usain Bolt: someone will be quicker than him one day. These things aren't important.

Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.

Two-time world champion - that's my goal.