Lou Brock Quotes (14 Quotes)

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

I was probably as big a fan of the event as anyone else there. After all, I'd never seen anybody get three thousand hits either.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

I've been here since March 2. My wife wants us to stay until the end of the month, but I've told her we've got to go home a week earlier than that.

I believe we need to make some radical moves to get the attention of everyone.

Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.

The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.

The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.

Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.

Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.