Catfish Hunter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'
-- Catfish Hunter

#Home #Two #Lakes
They don't know who I was or that I played baseball.
-- Catfish Hunter

#Baseball #Yankees #New York Yankees
This 20th win means more to me than the perfect game in 1968.
-- Catfish Hunter

#Mean #Winning #Yankees
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is.
-- Catfish Hunter

#Running #Winning
He'd (Reggie Jackson) give you the shirt off his back. Of course he'd call a press conference to announce it.
-- Catfish Hunter

#Giving #Pitching #Shirts
If I had done everything I was supposed to, I'd be leading the league in homers, have the highest batting average, have given $100,000 to the Cancer Fund and be married to Marie Osmond.
-- Catfish Hunter

#Cancer #Average #League
I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple.
-- Catfish Hunter

#Couple #North Carolina #Pitching
The thing about Reggie (Jackson) is that you know he's going to produce. And if he doesn't, he's going to talk enough to make people think he's going to produce.
-- Catfish Hunter

#Thinking #People #Pitching

Unless I am sure I am doing more at home to send the gospel abroad than I can do abroad, I am bound to go.
Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.
I love our fans. Our fans are so supportive. It's been incredible to end four playoff games with 'Go Pack Go.' It's great at home, they travel well, it's on a first-name basis. It's a special play to play and all of us are blessed to play in Green Bay, and hopefully we will be repaying those fans with the Lombardi trophy.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.
Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or into a canoe and heading for the hills or lakes. In my opinion, camping can be the greatest expression of free will, personal independence, innate ability, and resourcefulness possible today in our industrialized, urbanized existence. Regardless of how miserable or how splendid the circumstances, the sheer experience of camping seems a total justification for doing it.
Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an original thought or observation in a fishing book, I've turned the corner of the page down.

Catfish Hunter famous quotes

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