Bob Uecker Quotes

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

Once you give up, you know you're done.

No one can really relate to somebody who has given up entirely.

Eventually you get tired of losing.

You should despair and run away.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

I don't want ever to be champion again.

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

Groan and forget it.

My God, it is all over.

You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you.

Discouragement, if pursued, is the exercise of an option: to turn from creative to noncreative mental activity, to turn from what is present to what is over, to turn from that which builds to that which destroys.

It's tough to say this, but sometimes it's better if you are losing because then you don't expect anything.

It is always disappointing to obviously concede.

After I lost my hearing, I gave up.

This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.

Men do not settle down. Men surrender.

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.