Don Drysdale Quotes (13 Quotes)

It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.

If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.

In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.

We're comfortable financially, so it wasn't a financial issue that I voted Conservative. Basically, it was for the same reason we voted for Diefenbaker. First it was Mackenzie King, then St. Laurent -- Christ, the Liberals were in something like 20 years in a row (22 actually) --and we simply needed a change. It was getting like a dictatorship. Whether elected or not, that's not good for the country. I didn't go to war for a dictatorship.

And devious. The things he said about Stephen Harper. Any garbage to get elected. To me, that showed Martin's true character. At least we finally kicked the (Liberal) bums out.

We're not like the highway patrol handing out fines it doesn't work that fast. But we've made it clear we'll work to enforce the laws. We have concerns about a wholesale shift. They need to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.

I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.