Bob Uecker Quotes

People don't know this, but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it!

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

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

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

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

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

Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.