Bob Uecker Quotes

I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.

I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

I love my baseball, and I love my Phillies.

When I came into baseball, I had one goal for my career - the Hall of Fame.

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

I was in the American League for 16, 17 years, and I think it's a really tough league to compete in.

In baseball 30 days is an eternity.

Brooklyn was a famous team. I wanted to play for the Dodgers.

All America is familiar with the Yankee-Dodger-Giant trivia, but so many other teams had great moments.

If you look at it long-term, I think eventually there will be a DH in the National League.

When I was in Seattle, I listened to Carlos Guillen and other older players.

Just about every Latin American country has sent players to the big leagues, from the Dominican Republic to Costa Rica.

I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.

All backups take their cue from Elrod Hendricks, the patron saint of erstwhile catchers.

If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.

I'm very thankful to the Yankees and to Major League Baseball for allowing me to play this game.

I know I never saw Casey Stengel when I was being scouted. And how could you be in a ballpark and not know if Casey Stengel was there?

Somebody had asked me how it was to be in Atlanta, and I said that Atlanta had always been known as a Braves city, a baseball town.