Garagiola Quotes & Sayings

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. — Joe Garagiola

I guess you don't really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease. — Joe Garagiola

I would, for once, focus on me — Elizabeth Eulberg

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore. — Joe Garagiola

I'm an active and involved senator. It's very difficult to do the job I want to do and spend as much time as I want with my kids ... It is time for me to be a father first to them, and I realize as I watch them grow and become young adults that I won't be able to get this time back. — Robert J. Garagiola

So, you're seeing the Rolls-Royces and the Bentley's still selling for big prices. You're seeing jewelry still selling, art works at auction. There was a diamond that sold for I think 38 million, 48 million, something like that just a week ago. So prices are back up to their highs, getting stronger and more and more people seem to have more and more money to spend. — Robin Leach

It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad. — Emily Haines

Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street! — Joe Garagiola

With a developed imagination there's no place you can't go. — Sanford Meisner

I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.' — Joe Garagiola

It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two. — Joe Garagiola

You really have to be some kind of a creep for a dog to reject you. — Joe Garagiola

What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.' — Kate O'Mara

I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does. — Joe Garagiola

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth. — Joe Garagiola

Billy Loes was the only player in the majors who could lose a ground ball in the sun — Joe Garagiola

The guys exchange scowls as I climb off the mattress with Jeb's arm securely around my waist. It's nice to see some things never change. — A.G. Howard

He's one of those Christmas Eve guys. There are people like that ... every day in their lives is Christmas Eve. — Joe Garagiola

When I was a kid, I was fat, and I was teased mercilessly. But once I grew up and got out of my unhealthy relationship with food, for the most part I've had a very healthy view. If I ever find myself getting worried about how I'll look on the red carpet, I'll take a step back and look at what's really going on inside. — Alysia Reiner

It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable. — Joe Garagiola

Even if they didn't win the battle, even if she couldn't save these kids, Angel knew, as she'd always known, that Max was their only chance at saving the world. — James Patterson

And this charge plays out with partners, parents, friends, families and even our children. Many parents unconsciously 'use' their children so the parent can feel loved, important, special, and needed under the mask of being unconditionally loving to their children. The parent needs the child in order for the parent to feel love. This need is not love, simply another excuse for the parent to not feel their own lack and wound, and of course when the child acts up and does not meet their expectations, then the child receives harmful projections and verbal and physical abuse. — Padma Aon Prakasha

A good writer is always a people watcher. — Judy Blume

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. — Joe Garagiola

Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes. — Joe Garagiola

The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been. — Robert J. Garagiola

What can be broken, should be broken. — Dmitry Pisarev

Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes. — Joe Garagiola

The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates. — Joe Garagiola

The Chicago Cubs are like Rush Street-a lot of singles, but no action. — Joe Garagiola

Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative. — Joe Garagiola

When my colleagues went to endorse Rob Garagiola, nobody asked me for my opinion about that. And I didn't ask anybody else. I did what I thought was the right thing to do, and I made a decision, just like they did. — Donna Edwards

Professional politicians are busy looking out for their jobs. Send me to Congress so I can look out for your job. — Robert J. Garagiola

The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running. — Joe Garagiola

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray. — Joe Garagiola

May God have mercy upon us! So many of us are children and are only interested in the presents and the gifts and the entertainments. That is not proof that we are truly born again. The Devil can counterfeit experiences and gifts and most other things, but there is one thing the Devil cannot do, and that is give us a desire for a personal knowledge of God. The Devil can give you an interest in theology and encourage it; as you go on, you become more and more proud of your vast knowledge. That is not what I am talking about. I am talking about the crying out of a child's need for his or her Father, the true filial cry and desire. The Devil cannot counterfeit that; he knows nothing about it, and he cannot produce it. Only one person can produce it; that is God himself through the Spirit as he implants within us a seed of this living life. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

There is no defense against a base on balls. — Joe Garagiola

Don't tell me you can pitch ... pitch. Don't tell me you can sell ... sell. — Joe Garagiola

While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite. — Eric Butterworth