Bob Uecker Quotes

Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always.

I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.

Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.

... an instrument of oppression and disturbance and injury instead of help to business.

I never went too long without a job. The problem was a lot of the early jobs are almost more demoralizing than unemployment.

Jobs are a part of life. Maybe you've heard of the concept. It's called work? See, what happens is that you suffer through doing annoying and humiliating things until you get paid not enough money. Like those Japanese game shows, only without all the glory.

...You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs. Thank God, I don't want any of that! Damn it! And besides that they smack you for a reward; they call you an animal and it's not true, a little kid, etc.. Oh! Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn!

Sometimes the ladies involved give too much of themselves, sometimes not enough.

My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.

Sometimes you're not in the best environment. Sometimes you're not speaking the same language and it's not a good place to work. It's a lot to give, actually. And for not a lot of money.

It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.

Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

I wished that my job was baking muffins in a muffin shop, where all I'd have to do was crack eggs and measure flour and make change, and nobody could abuse me, and where they'd even expect me to be fat. Every flab roll and cellulite crinkle would serve as testimony to the excellence of my baked goods

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

I had a Saturday job in a chemist. The pay was something ridiculous like £2 an hour - it was slave labour - and I spent all day cleaning shelves. On my first day an actress from Eldorado, which was on telly at the time, came in and said, 'Can I have some Replense please?' I didn't know what it was, so I had to ask her and she had to say, 'It's vaginal moisturiser,' in front of a massive queue of people. After one day I was like, 'I don't want to do this job any more, it's just boring.'

Care Immensely or Die: This is a bigger culture shift than you realize.

Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.

I think once those friendships, if you use that as an analogy, the friendships between the audience and the character is established, then you can start to take liberties. I believe that as this unfolds people will find the time invested worthwhile.

Everyone I love I pay.

I have a sense that South Africa is my other country apart from my native country that I particularly love, [that I] want to see succeed, and I did really want my message to be listened to.

Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.

At least have the decency in you / To leave me alone, when you freaks see me out / In the streets when I'm eating or feeding my daughter