Top 22 Bob Uecker Quotes

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.

The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

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

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.

Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.

Baseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

We were on for six years. We were in syndication for a while. It had its run. I still see the people from ‘Mr. Belvedere,’ too. We stay in touch.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.

When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.

Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it’s never at the expense of the other guy.

Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship – and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players’ equipment.

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

Career highlights? I had two – I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.