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Apr 26, 2003
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After being warned to stop wearing his curlers on the field:
"If I don't look good, I don't play good."
When he tried to hit every player on the Cincinnati Reds:
"We gonna get down. We gonna do the do. I’m going to hit these motherfuckers."
After he pitched a no-hitter high on LSD:
"I can only remember bits and pieces of the game. I was psyched. I had a feeling of euphoria. I was zeroed in on the [catcher’s] glove, but I didn’t hit the glove too much. I remember hitting a couple of batters and the bases were loaded two or three times.

The ball was small sometimes, the ball was large sometimes, sometimes I saw the catcher, sometimes I didn’t. Sometimes I tried to stare the hitter down and throw while I was looking at him. I chewed my gum until it turned to powder. I started having a crazy idea in the fourth inning that Richard Nixon was the home plate umpire, and once I thought I was pitching a baseball to Jimi Hendrix, who to me was holding a guitar and swinging it over the plate."
On being drafted by the Pirates:
"I signed to play baseball in 1963, right after I was released from jail for stealing a car'
After drilling Reggie Jackson in his spectacled face in retaliation for a hr in the 71' all star game:
"Is he dead?"
After his career in baseball:
"I was destined to be who I am and known that throughout no matter what I did. I had a predestination to be me. I could've been in politics and still have been the same motherfucker. The same arrogant motherfucker. Charismatic individual, politician motherfucker."