Mike Schmidt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.
-- Mike Schmidt

#Thinking #Talking #Hitting
Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.
-- Mike Schmidt

#Rose #Arrogant #Mets
Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.
-- Mike Schmidt

#Thinking #Games #Famous Baseball
If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
-- Mike Schmidt

#Baseball #Effort #Black
If you're associated with the Philadelphia media or town, you look for negatives. I don't know if there's something about their upbringing or they have too many hoagies, or too much cream cheese.
-- Mike Schmidt

#Media #Philadelphia #Too Much
You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.
-- Mike Schmidt

#Trying #Fans #Truth Is
I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.
-- Mike Schmidt

#Games #Statistics #Add
I'm 61 now, and I'm comfortable in my lifestyle... I don't yearn for the limelight on a regular basis. I get a kick out of it every so often. I go to Philly and go to a game, and they make a big deal about me. That's fun for a couple of days, and I can go back to my own private life.
-- Mike Schmidt

#Couple #Fun #Games
They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.
-- Mike Schmidt

#Sports #Roots #Giving
I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.
-- Mike Schmidt

#Greatness #Perfection #Satisfaction
Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.
-- Mike Schmidt

#Reading #Cities #Philadelphia
Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that the commissioner's office has decided to allow that to be the reality. I don't think Pete would mind if they said 'No' to Pete. Pete wants them to go one way or the other and get him out of the void he's in.
-- Mike Schmidt

#Baseball #Reality #Thinking
I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.
-- Mike Schmidt

#Years #Two #League

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