Brooks Robinson Quotations

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.

I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.

I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.

I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.

This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.

He (Hoyt Wilhelm) had the best knuckleball you'd ever want to see. He knew where it was going when he threw it, but when he got two strikes on you, he'd break out one that even he didn't know where it was going.

Take time to thank everyone who has helped you along the way.

He's going to flip over to the Veterans Committee next year, ... It's just too bad things couldn't have happened early when he was banned from the game, coming clean. It would be a whole different story.

We lost the most beloved Oriole of all time. Not only was Elrod loved here in the Baltimore area, but all over the country. Every ballpark that we would go into, he'd be the first one on the field signing autographs and saying hello.

I talked to my dad about doing commercials for Flawless. I worked up a couple treatments and presented him with an overall concept of what it would look like.

Willy was one of those guys who never liked to change gloves. He used to put tongue depressors in the thumb when the glove got a little soft, and he'd stuff sanitary socks in the fingers. I got that from him. When I got a glove, I wanted to use that glove forever.

Well, ... it just brought tears to my eyes.

Was it a fact? ... Or just a great new story about a celebrity that might help sell books?

We are very excited that SEEGRID has chosen this location within the City of Pittsburgh and that they share in our vision that this region, especially Lawrenceville, is prime for robotics growth,

It's much easier sitting down in the chair,

I really have an affection for York, ... It was the first place where my father came to see me play pro ball.

I just love coming out here. I love to meet the people here.

He wrote that he met with Powhatan and was fed cornbread and venison at a big banquet, ... Was he forced to write the letter? Well, the Indians couldn't read English, so they wouldn't have known if he was asking for help.

The Indians were a disciplined, energetic people, ... Their villages were quite well-constructed, considering they had tools made only of stone, bone and seashells. And they grew an abundance of corn, beans, squash, pumpkins and tobacco.