Alvin Dark famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.
-- Alvin Dark

#Have Faith #Faith In God #Fingers
Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.
-- Alvin Dark

#Games #Long #Balls
Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.
-- Alvin Dark

#Baseball #Trying #Communist
Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.
-- Alvin Dark

#Baseball #Games #Forgotten
A manager doesn't hear the cheers.
-- Alvin Dark

#Cheer
The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'
-- Alvin Dark

#Giants #Shut Up #Motto
The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.
-- Alvin Dark

#Mistake #Curves #Want
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
-- Alvin Dark

#Baseball #Sunshine #Player
There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.
-- Alvin Dark

#Running #Home #Moon
The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.
-- Alvin Dark

#Lasts #Taught #Lord
There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.
-- Alvin Dark

#Baseball #Real #Grandmother

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