Bob Uecker Quotes

Money was tight and Mum used to do two jobs to support us.

I've got to play free agency out, and I've got to look at all of my options.

When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed.

And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.

I'd rather play for the Yankees. You get more money.

I love it. In the NFL, you win or you lose, and the money still shows up.

Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.

Some of today's athletes do not have that kind of pride. They left school at 16, have never had a job in their life and are getting Lottery funding, earning money as an athlete.

No matter how much money I ever get, I'm going to want to provide for my family and never have to go back to really struggling. You don't ever want to go outside, you don't ever want to be left in the cold. You want to be safe.

There's little money in theatre.

I always wondered how it would be to put on a Braves uniform and play in Atlanta.

I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.

When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.

I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.

I don't come from money.

Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

The fact is, I made $400 a week and only for 26 weeks a year. I never had any money.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

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.

When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.

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.

My parents didn't have any money.

We will do whatever it takes to keep Tom Herman at the University of Houston. We're not going to lose Tom Herman because of money. If Tom Herman wants to go to LSU or Texas or Oregon or Baylor or wherever else, we cannot stop him from doing that. But it's not going to be because of money.