Best Quotes by Alvin Dark (Top 9)

  1. Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
  2. A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.
  3. In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
  4. Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.
  5. Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.
  6. There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.
  7. There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.
  8. A manager doesn't hear the cheers.
  9. The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.