Drysdale Quotes & Sayings

It had been one of the biggest landgrabs in the city's history and Bosch knew the story well, having tried all his life to counter his love of baseball and the Dodgers with the ugly story buried beneath the diamond where, as a boy, he watched Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale pitch. It seemed to him that every gleaming success in the city had a dark seam to it somewhere, usually just out of view. — Michael Connelly

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team. — Don Drysdale

A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby. — Don Drysdale

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes. — Don Drysdale

If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters. — Don Drysdale

I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?' — Mickey Mantle

Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards. — Don Drysdale

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid. — Don Drysdale

Repentance is the process of discovering what God says is the truth and aligning your faith with His. — Phil Drysdale

When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove. — Don Drysdale

When the ball is over the middle of the plate, the batter is hitting it with the sweet part of the bat. When it's inside, he's hitting it with the part of the bat from the handle to the trademark. When it's outside, he's hitting it with the end of the bat. You've got to keep the ball away from the sweet part of the bat. To do that, the pitcher has to move the hitter off the plate. — Don Drysdale

It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball. — Don Drysdale

I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over. — Don Drysdale

The use of tobacco is one of the most evident of all the retrograde influences of our time. It invades all classes, destroys social life, and is turning, in the words of Mantegazza, the whole of Europe into a cigar divan. — Charles R. Drysdale

We're comfortable financially, so it wasn't a financial issue that I voted Conservative. Basically, it was for the same reason we voted for Diefenbaker. First it was Mackenzie King, then St. Laurent
Christ, the Liberals were in something like 20 years in a row (22 actually)
and we simply needed a change. It was getting like a dictatorship. Whether elected or not, that's not good for the country. I didn't go to war for a dictatorship. — Don Drysdale

Lu Googles "Jonnie Forke" - nothing. Literally, nothing, which is bizarrely impressive. She plugs "Jonnie Forke" in Facebook, finds an entry for Juanita Forke. Graduated Centennial High School. No overlap with Drysdale there. Relationship status, single. She has only seventy-four friends, so she's one of those people who actually uses Facebook for friends, yet doesn't think to opt for the highest-security settings. To be fair, the site changes its privacy policy so often, some well-intentioned people don't realize their fences are down. Lu — Laura Lippman

Open yer mind to the world, kids. No point havin' yer windows open if yer don't pull back the curtains to let in the light! - Grandpa's favourite saying to Kirsten and Jeremy. Quoted in The Hybrid and the Emeralds of Elisar — Suellen Drysdale

Things have happened - so fast. Ten days ago, we didn't even know Rudy was sleeping rough again." "Isn't that a British term?" "It is." Mrs. Drysdale is allowed to speak to this at least. "But Rudy liked it. He said it was more like the way he lived. He wasn't homeless. Our door was always open to him. Always. — Laura Lippman

In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore. — Don Drysdale

The Houston Astros are the youngest team in the National League if you judge by age. — Don Drysdale

Where do you want it? — Don Drysdale

But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him. — Juan Marichal

He (Don Drysdale) talks very well for a guy who's had two fingers in his mouth all his life. — Gene Mauch