Dizzy Dean Quotes

I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.

The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind.

I'd get me a bunch of bats and balls and sneak me a couple of umpires and learn them kids behind the Iron Curtain how to tote a bat and play baseball.

If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.

The dumber a pitcher is, the better. When he gets smart and begins to experiment with a lot of different pitches, he's in trouble. All I ever had was a fastball, a curve and a changeup and I did pretty good.

A lot of folks that ain't saying 'ain't,' ain't eating.

Why, they shot the wrong McKinley!

Fans, don't fail to miss tomorrow's game.

Practice, work hard and give it everything you've got.

Let the teachers learn the kids English. Ol' Diz will learn the kids baseball.

I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel Paige, that big lanky colored boy. My fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little pistol bullet ole Satchel (Paige) shoots up to the plate.

Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.

Slud is something more than slid. It means sliding with great effort.

He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.

All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it.

Me and Paul (Dean) will probably win forty games (they won forty-nine).

I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr. Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.

It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?

If you can do it, it ain't braggin'... it's a matter of self-confidence. I got where I did because I wasn't no shrinking violet.

I can't tell you why there's a delay, but stick your head out of the window and you'll know why.

Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating.

I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind.

I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?

The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks.

He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall.

I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head.

It ain't braggin' if you really done it.

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts.

Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss?