Curt Flood Quotes

As far as sleeping goes, you're up and ready to go at six in the morning. Spring training was always a combination of relaxing and working, and I missed that quite a bit. I missed being around the ball field. A baseball. A bat. The smell of the uniform, you might say. Talking baseball. Seeing opponents as well as the Cubs.

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

I actually believe that you should not wash your jeans, ever. In Japan, they actually put them in the freezer. That kills the bacteria and makes them not smell anymore.

Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.

I could never wear another uniform. I will forever be a Yankee.

I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts.

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it.

With too much wash and wear, sweaters get fuzzy or start to pill. Having a fabric shaver is a game changer. It makes my sweaters look brand-new.

One of my biggest gifts ever, my mother made a Yankee uniform for me as a little boy, and I wore it to bed dreaming I could pitch in the major leagues and then be a Yankee.

I play in the congressional baseball game.

Growing up in Bloomington, Minn., I loved the ritual of dressing for Little League - in white socks, blue stirrups, belted pants, a double-knit jersey, and the cap I'd hold over my face to screen out mosquitoes in right field.

A mini lint brush is always in my purse.

I was scared everyday I put on the uniform.

Hillary has now erased all of her emails, and she also had all of her pantsuits dry cleaned.

At least I get my little black dress cleaned once in awhile.

Putting the Yankee uniform on every day.

Normal' is a dryer setting.

I've experienced a lot of things in baseball, but I've never been traded during a strike. At least I know I'll be in a new uniform the next time I put one on.

People say Yogi (Berra) is a strange guy, and I've heard Yogi say some funny things. But he has a beautiful wife, he's rich, and he's famous. I don't see anything strange about that.

If you've got a bloodstain on your T-shirt, maybe dirty laundry isn't your biggest problem.

Ballplayers are a superstitious breed, nobody more than I, and while you are winning you'd murder anybody who tried to change your sweatshirt, let alone your uniform.

Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks.