Woodie Held famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.
Was Ty Cobb psychotic throughout his playing career? The answer is yes.
When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.
I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.
To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.
Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'
You can't turn the ball over and expect to win.
In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.
Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.

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