Tug McGraw Quotes

• Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.

  Tug McGraw

  Waste, Good Times, Whiskey

  Quoted in Bert Sugar, Book of Sports Quotes (1979)

  66 Copy quote

• Some days you tame the tiger, and some days the tiger has you for lunch.

  Tug McGraw

  Motivational, Sports, Baseball

  61 Copy quote

• What is the difference between astroturf and grass? I don't know, I never smoked astroturf.

  Tug McGraw

  Funny, Weed, Baseball

  34 Copy quote

• Ten million years from now, when then sun burns out and the Earth is just a frozen iceball hurtling through space, nobody's going to care whether or not I got this guy out.

  Tug McGraw

  Years, Space, Guy

  38 Copy quote

• Always root for the winner. That way you won't be disappointed.

  Tug McGraw

  Roots, Way, Winner

  13 Copy quote

• I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

  Tug McGraw

  Twelve, Ears, Elbows

  Tug McGraw, Don Yaeger (2005). “Ya Gotta Believe!: My Roller-Coaster Life as a Screwball Pitcher and Part-Time Father, and My Hope-Filled Fight Against Brain Cancer”, Signet

  14 Copy quote

• Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little League.

  Tug McGraw

  Baseball, Kids, Practice

  Tug McGraw, Don Yaeger (2005). “Ya Gotta Believe!: My Roller-Coaster Life as a Screwball Pitcher and Part-Time Father, and My Hope-Filled Fight Against Brain Cancer”, Signet

  16 Copy quote

• We called Pete Rose and Larry Bowa the soup spoons, because they were always stirring things up. Twenty years later, nothing's changed.

  Tug McGraw

  Years, Rose, Soup

  13 Copy quote

• When I come into a game in the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, no one out and a one-run lead ... it takes people off my mind.

  Tug McGraw

  Running, Games, People

  6 Copy quote

• I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf

  Tug McGraw

  Sports, Grass, Dumb Sports

  6 Copy quote

• I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf.

  Tug McGraw

  Sports, Alcohol, Drug

  7 Copy quote

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