Bob Uecker Quotes

Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.

I'm just glad to get off three-hundred ninety-nine (career home runs). It sounds like something you'd purchase at a discount store.

Babe Ruth was the home-run king of his time, but also the strikeout king.

The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.

We were brothers off the field, but there was no love lost on it. We fought like cats and dogs. Wes was always trying to strike me out, and meantime, I was always trying to hit a home run off him.

The guy's (Shane Spencer) ridiculous. No one hits home runs like that. I'm telling you, man, it's ridiculous.

To be the first player to do it three consecutive years (fifty or more home runs), you go back through the thousands of power hitters who played this game and nobody has ever done it, and I can sit here and say I'm the first. I'm pretty proud of that.

I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and running 99 yards for a touchdown.

If that guy (Mickey Mantle) were healthy, he'd hit 80 home runs.

Home run hitters strike out a lot.

Even on home runs that I hit in the past, guys were like, 'Man, you need to slow down. You've got that one.

We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.

It could be, it might be... It is, A home run!

Barry Bonds in the news. Yesterday Barry Bonds' agent said that Bonds could hit as many as 1,000 home runs. And the agent admitted he's on more drugs than Barry Bonds.

Probably the most dramatic change in pitching I've observed in my years in baseball has been the disappearance of the knockdown or brushback pitch. This is why record numbers of home runs are flying out of ballparks, why earned run averages are soaring, and why there are so few twenty game winners in the majors.

He's (Willie Stargell) such a big strong guy he should love that porch. He's got power enough to hit home runs in any park, including Yellowstone.

The Mets are gonna be amazing.

I'd rather save a home run than hit one. I've always been like that. Defense is what I pride myself on.

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

Wheaties was the big sponsor in those days (1940s). They sponsored almost all the baseball games in the majors and the minors. That was a lot of Wheaties. I think there were twenty-four boxes in a case and some of these guys were hitting twenty-five and thirty home runs a season. We had a dog in those days named Blue Grass and the players used to give us their Wheaties for him. Blue Grass loved Wheaties and so did I.

You might as well go in and start getting dressed. I'm going to hit his first pitch for a home run.

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it.