Dizzy Dean Quotes

Rich Folkers is throwing 'em up in the bullpen.

My changeup looks like a fastball, but one goes straight and the other goes away from the righthanded hitter. Sometimes it cuts by itself, and I don't know where it's going.

My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been compelled to depend more on drops, straight balls and the different artifices known to pitchers to deceive the batter.

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

I'm a breaking-ball pitcher.

I'm trying to throw more curves because I'm always throwing fastball, slider, fastball, slider.

I would not admire hitting against Ryne Duren, because if he ever hit you in the head you might be in the past tense.

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

Don Gullett's the only guy who can throw a baseball through a car wash and not get the ball wet.

Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.

I'm the one with the wicked curve ball.

I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.

Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

(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.

Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.

[On Willie Mays] He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

The first time I faced him I watched him take that easy windup and then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger. We couldn't touch him... Every one of us knew we'd met the most powerful arm ever turned loose in a ball park.

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.

I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.

Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer.