Brooks Robinson famous quotes

03-25-2025

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.
-- Brooks Robinson

#Baseball #Men #Games
If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.
-- Brooks Robinson

#Baseball #Jobs #Ready
I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.
-- Brooks Robinson

#Baseball #Passion #Names
He (Hoyt Wilhelm) had the best knuckleball you'd ever want to see. He knew where it was going when he threw it, but when he got two strikes on you, he'd break out one that even he didn't know where it was going.
-- Brooks Robinson

#Two #Knuckleballs #Want
It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.
-- Brooks Robinson

#Baseball #Player #Bats
Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.
-- Brooks Robinson

#Believe #Believe In Yourself #Helping
Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts
-- Brooks Robinson

#Virginia #Reason #Disappear
This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.
-- Brooks Robinson

#Spring #Years #Training
I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.
-- Brooks Robinson

#Play #Mind #Records
I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.
-- Brooks Robinson

#Player #Average #Bats
I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.
-- Brooks Robinson

#Baseball #Play #League
Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.
-- Brooks Robinson

#Book #Years #Three
I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.
-- Brooks Robinson

#Struggle #Long #Hitting
Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.
-- Brooks Robinson

#Baseball #Player #People

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