"I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture."

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Source : Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.45, Triumph Books

Bob Uecker

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“All these delusions of Divination have their root and foundation from Astrology. For whether the lineaments of the body, countenance, or hand be inspected, whether dream or vision be seen, whether marking of entrails or mad inspiration be consulted, there must be a Celestial Figure first erected, by the means of whole indications, together with the conjectures of Signs and Similitudes, they endeavour to find out the truth of what is desired.”
“People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot of interaction between artists who have different styles.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.”
“It's actually true that I keep myself going by constantly promising myself that in response for the hard work I will be allowed to do some more hard work later on.”
“The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart.”
“We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.”
“I seriously consider television to be the people's medium. Like the idea of seeing your parents naked or having somebody go down on you and worrying about whether you smell, or worrying about whether your body is weird or what goes across the face of a person who's supposed to be experiencing pleasure but isn't - those are things I'd love to normalize on TV.”
“The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.”

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