Bob Uecker Quotes

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

If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that.

I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball

In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet.

My biggest regret was letting my lifetime average drop below .300. I always felt I was a .300 hitter, and if I could change one thing that would be it.

I've faced more than 35 major leaguers, and only two have ever made contact against me.

Ted Williams is one of the best hitters ever to play the game, and I didn't get a chance to see him play, so all I could do was read books and look at pictures.

Ted Williams was the greatest hitter I ever saw, but DiMaggio was the greatest all around player.

Baseball needs more superstars.

All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.

I think I could have become an outstanding professional baseball player, but I don't think I could have reached the heights that I have in football - being one of the very top players in the game, being a world champion.

In Cuba, I would start the first two months hitting around .260 with three or four home runs. After the first half of the season, I would get hot, and that's when I would have my best results.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

The night I got drafted to the A's, obviously it was a great day of my life, but I've been a football player my whole life.

My average against hitters is pretty good.

Baseball is what I always wanted to do with my life.

Of all the four major sports, whether you like Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, maybe you like Bobby Orr, or you like Larry Bird or Tom Brady - Bill Russell is the greatest athlete to play in Boston.

I want to strike out less than 20 times.

Whether I hit .260 or .320, the bottom line here is to win.

Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

If I could run like Mantle I'd hit .400 every year!

If you want information about sports, I can tell you things from the 1940's, and the couple years that my grandson was kind of a jock, but nothing in between.

Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.