Don Drysdale Quotes

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

I want to go to there.

Since we're neither at the bottom nor at the top, we must be in the middle.

I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.

Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.

I want to be sure I can deliver what people expect to hear. I just don't know if I can physically do it. Or if I should.

If you are ending up where you want to be, what difference does it make whether you went fast or slow? Or what difference does it make whether it was painful before it got really good? Isn't that the point of free will? You get to choose.

A good time to hit is with men on base, because the pitcher ain't got no place to put you. He's going to get that ball around there somewhere. He don't want to walk you.

Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?

FedEx is another company that's passionate. When it absolutely, positively has to get there is such a great, aspirational phrase. And FedEx used it for almost a decade to communicate the passion of delivering a package. The more passionate you are, the more successful you are.

Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.

I don't want anybody to panic. I'm not pitching. I'm just throwing out the first ball.

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?'

I was like, 'Huh? You want my jersey?'

I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object of desire. Because it doesn't last.

I'm very proud of my area around the plate. I don't want anyone messing with my dirt.

Often you see people who move there and then, once they have arrived, the ball moves here after which they also come here, but then the ball goes there again. I say: just stay where you are, then you are in any case at the right place half of the time.

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

Do you know the way to San Hose?

I want to show that I can pitch well and get along with the guys in the locker room.'

Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

I think I'm going to Katmandu, that's really, really where I'm going to

I want to be the best leadoff hitter of our time.

If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.