Roy Campanella quotes

Roy Campanella quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I never want to quit playing ball, They'll have to cut this uniform off me to get me out of it”
-- Roy Campanella

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“You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.”
-- Roy Campanella

Source : Quoted in New York Journal-American, 12 Apr. 1957

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“To be good you've gotta have a lot of little boy in you. When you see Willie Mays and Ted Williams jumping and hopping around the bases after hitting a home run, and the kissing and hugging that goes on at home plate, you realize they have to be little boys.”
-- Roy Campanella

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“How does a man know when he's taking the last steps of his life?”
-- Roy Campanella

Source : Roy Campanella (1995). “It's Good to Be Alive”, p.18, U of Nebraska Press

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“When asked about which team is the toughest team in the league, responded with an answer that all volleyball players must comprehend. He said simply that it was, 'The team you are playing.'”
-- Roy Campanella

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“Pro sports are a tough business--whether you're in baseball, football, or something else. But when you're running around the bases after hitting a home run or jumping up and down after a touchdown, a little boy comes to the surface.”
-- Roy Campanella

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“A true pioneer who to me was like a father when I first came into the Dodger organization. He (Walter O'Malley) stood by me, and after my injury he stood by me and helped me through all of my crises.”
-- Roy Campanella

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“Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“I don't think it's fair - you get married, you give your wife a wedding ring. I think you should give her a mood ring. Oh, it may sound crass, but just check the color when you come home. 'Hi honey. Infernal red? Oh boy, I ain't getting laid, and I gotta cut the lawn, I know it.'”
“A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.”

Source : "Mark Souder: The Hypocrisy of the Hypocrite" by Diana Butler Bass, www.beliefnet.com. May 18, 2010.
“Was there any form of filth or crime without at least one Jew involved in it? If you cut into such a sore, you find, like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light, a Jew.”
“Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.”
“Real evidence is usually vague and unsatisfactory. It has to be examined---sifted. But here the whole thing is cut and dried. No, my friend, this evidence has been very cleverly manufactured---so cleverly that it has defeated its own ends.”
“Playing on turf affects everything, you know, it affects the way the ball rolls, it affects the way the ball bounces, it affects the way you think about whether or not going into a slide. It's kind of a nightmare.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I'm not scared at all... Of the cracks in the crystal ball.”
“Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.”
“He's passing the ball like Idi Amin.”

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