Nellie Fox famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't think anyone ever liked to play more than I did.
-- Nellie Fox

#Thinking #Play
If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.
-- Nellie Fox

#Baseball #Fighting #Satisfied
All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.
-- Nellie Fox

#Men #Games #Half
No one had to tell me I was never going to be a home run hitter. I was hitting the same ball as the rest of the players, but when the big guys cracked one, it went out of the park. Mine went out of the infield.
-- Nellie Fox

#Running #Home #Player
On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived.
-- Nellie Fox

#Two #Legs #Mickey
What is the top requirement for a second baseman? A fine shortstop. I am fortunate in having the greatest shortstop in baseball, Luis Aparicio.
-- Nellie Fox

#Baseball #Requirements #Fine
(Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe of stodgy baseball, lack of hustle and slipshod practices and so powerful an advocate of the unexpected.
-- Nellie Fox

#Baseball #Powerful #Practice
(Doc) Cramer told me I was hitting too much off the front foot and that I wasn't using the right kind of bat. I had been using a long, skinny stick and Cramer got me a thicker one.
-- Nellie Fox

#Feet #Long #Bats
(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week.
-- Nellie Fox

#Player #Next Week #Landi
On October 19, 1949, I got a telephone call from the Philadelphia (A's) front office informing me I had been traded to the White Sox for Joe Tipton. I was surprised and hurt.
-- Nellie Fox

#Hurt #White #Philadelphia
Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.
-- Nellie Fox

#Hard Work #Hands #Magic
We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.
-- Nellie Fox

#Baseball #Dad #Balls
We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together.
-- Nellie Fox

#Stars #Team #Play

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