Nellie Fox Quotes & Sayings

If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve. — Nellie Fox

(Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe of stodgy baseball, lack of hustle and slipshod practices and so powerful an advocate of the unexpected. — Nellie Fox

All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game. — Nellie Fox

What is the top requirement for a second baseman? A fine shortstop. I am fortunate in having the greatest shortstop in baseball, Luis Aparicio. — Nellie Fox

(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week. — Nellie Fox

(Doc) Cramer told me I was hitting too much off the front foot and that I wasn't using the right kind of bat. I had been using a long, skinny stick and Cramer got me a thicker one. — Nellie Fox

I don't think anyone ever liked to play more than I did. — Nellie Fox

On October 19, 1949, I got a telephone call from the Philadelphia (A's) front office informing me I had been traded to the White Sox for Joe Tipton. I was surprised and hurt. — Nellie Fox

We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together. — Nellie Fox

No one had to tell me I was never going to be a home run hitter. I was hitting the same ball as the rest of the players, but when the big guys cracked one, it went out of the park. Mine went out of the infield. — Nellie Fox

On two legs, Mickey Mantle would have been the greatest ballplayer who ever lived. — Nellie Fox

You don't have to be big to be a big leaguer. Look at Phil Rizzuto. He's really small and he's been one of the greatest that ever was. — Nellie Fox

Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work. — Nellie Fox

We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad. — Nellie Fox