Ford Frick famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
-- Ford Frick

#Decision #Sound #Made
Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
-- Ford Frick

#Deaf #Should
Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
-- Ford Frick

#Pride #Umpires #Fields
Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.
-- Ford Frick

#Sarcastic #Sarcasm #Lasts
Keep your eye on the ball.
-- Ford Frick

#Eye #Balls
Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
-- Ford Frick

#Honest #Trouble #Reviews
I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
-- Ford Frick

#Hate #Opera
Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.
-- Ford Frick

#Player #Yelling #Fingers
Baseball is probably the world's best documented sport.
-- Ford Frick

#Sports #Baseball #World
Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and Dodgers from New York to California brought that pressure in abundance.
-- Ford Frick

#Baseball #New York #Moving
I donâ€™t care if half the league strikes. Those who do will encounter quick retribution. All will be suspended, and I donâ€™t care if it wrecks the league for 10 years. This is the United States of America, and one citizen has as much right to play as another.
-- Ford Frick

#Years #Play #America
I cannot but feel that the one man, above all others, who deserves the eternal thanks of his own race, and all thinking people, for bringing about baseballâ€™s greatest reform, is Jackie Robinson himselfâ€¦Certainly baseball people should be eternally grateful for the contribution he made to his own people, and to the game.
-- Ford Frick

#Baseball #Grateful #Men
Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.
-- Ford Frick

#Forgive And Forget #Personality #Forgiving

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