Andy Van Slyke famous quotes

06-16-2025

I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.
-- Andy Van Slyke

#Baseball #Bats #Relief
My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.
-- Andy Van Slyke

#League #Meals #Dollars
Mario Lemieux is Mr. Pittsburgh.
-- Andy Van Slyke

#Nhl #Pittsburgh #Mario
We had an argument once, yeah. It was the best thing that could have happened to our working relationship. After that, we understood each other and got along much better. I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.
-- Andy Van Slyke

#Sports #Way #Argument
They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.
-- Andy Van Slyke

#Sports #Play #Brooks
Last year we had so many people coming in and out they didn't bother to sew their names on the backs of the uniforms. They just put them there with Velcro.
-- Andy Van Slyke

#Sports #Years #Names
It seems like Satan has thrown the DH into our game.
-- Andy Van Slyke

#Games #Gamer #Satan
Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow.
-- Andy Van Slyke

#Country #Baseball #Giving
He (Ozzie Smith) plays like he's on a mini-trampoline or wearing helium kangaroo shorts.
-- Andy Van Slyke

#Play #Kangaroos #Trampolines
Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.
-- Andy Van Slyke

#Mother #Defense #Good Mother
I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.
-- Andy Van Slyke

#Baseball #Father #Kids
I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.
-- Andy Van Slyke

#Way #Certain #Wanted
I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.
-- Andy Van Slyke

#Play #League #Guy
The biggest adjustment from the minors was learning to spend $45 in meal money.
-- Andy Van Slyke

#Meals #Minors
With the Cardinals everybody would be reading the business section to see what their stocks were doing. You get to this locker room (Pirates) in the morning and everybody is looking at the sports page to see if Hulk Hogan won.
-- Andy Van Slyke

#Sports #Morning #Reading
Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.
-- Andy Van Slyke

#Sports #Psychology #Trying

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