Bob Uecker Quotes

My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.

Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top. ... Then we had George Foster come in; Ken Griffey Sr. was as good a two-place hitter as there has ever been in the game, and Cesar Geronimo won four Gold Glove awards. I mean, how could you ask for a better team?

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

I'm going to consistently hit anywhere between .290 and .310. Anything above that, I'm catching breaks and finding holes.

I'm not a cleanup hitter. I'm just batting fourth.

Hitting .400 is something you can do by yourself. But you have to rely on guys getting on base at the right time to drive in that many runs.

I consider Billy Keeler, Mike Tiernan, Ed Delihanty and Larrie La Joie the toughest hitters I had to pitch to, but I did not dread them. Remember, Hughie Duffy was a member of our team, so I did not face him. In my opinion, Duffy was the greatest hitter.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.

I want to be the player who hits home runs, drives in runs.

You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year... unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.

I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.

I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.

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.

If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

I know about winning batting titles.

I loved coming up with players in scoring position and I had to drive them in.

You always want to get at-bats. You always want to contribute.

One of the first benchmarks in a season are far as at-bats is 100.

The hits and the misses. I just want to keep the at-bats solid.

My job has usually been to get on base so others can drive me in.