Alvin Dark Quotes

• A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.

  Alvin Dark

  Have Faith, Faith In God, Fingers

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• The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

  Alvin Dark

  Lasts, Taught, Lord

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• Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

  Alvin Dark

  Games, Long, Balls

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• There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.

  Alvin Dark

  Running, Home, Moon

  "Pimping for the designated fan" by Jon Carroll, www.sfgate.com. July 13, 2009.

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• Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.

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  Baseball, Trying, Racist

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• 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.

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  Baseball, Real, Grandmother

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• The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

  Alvin Dark

  Mistake, Curves, Want

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• The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'

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  Giants, Shut Up, Motto

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• A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

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  Cheer, Managers

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• Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

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  Baseball, Games, Forgotten

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• 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.

  Alvin Dark

  Baseball, Sunshine, Player

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