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Brooks Robinson Quotes
«If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.»
Author: Brooks Robinson
| About:
Motivation,
Preparation,
Success
| Keywords:
job, practicing, ready, Somebody else, Somebody Somewhere, somewhere
«I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.»
«Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.»
«It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.»
Author: Brooks Robinson
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
at bats, bat, batted, contract, contracted, contracting, glove, gloved, gloves, last word, loudest, player, Pretty Things, sure thing, The Last Word, The Player
«I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.»
«Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.»
Author: Brooks Robinson
| Keywords:
inches
«I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.»
Author: Brooks Robinson
| Keywords:
hitting
«I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.»
Author: Brooks Robinson
| Keywords:
batting average
«I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.»
Author: Brooks Robinson
«He's going to flip over to the Veterans Committee next year, ... It's just too bad things couldn't have happened early when he was banned from the game, coming clean. It would be a whole different story.»
Author: Brooks Robinson