Top 40 Bob Uecker Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Between me and my roommate, we’ve hit 400 Major League home runs.”

— Bob Uecker

2. “I led the league in go get ’em next time.”

— Bob Uecker

3. “The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia’s Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.”

— Bob Uecker

4. “In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.”

— Bob Uecker

5. “Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.”

— Bob Uecker

6. “Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?”

— Bob Uecker

7. “I remember one time I’m batting against the Dodgers in Milwaukee. They lead, 2 – 1, it’s the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two out and the pitcher has a full count on me. I look over to the Dodger dugout and they’re all in street clothes.”

— Bob Uecker

8. “I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.”

— Bob Uecker

9. “I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.”

— Bob Uecker

10. “I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.”

— Bob Uecker

11. “The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.”

— Bob Uecker

12. “You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.”

— Bob Uecker

13. “Baseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.”

— Bob Uecker

14. “People don’t know this, but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it!”

— Bob Uecker

15. “After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.”

— Bob Uecker

16. “Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of ‘Don’t do this’ and ‘Don’t do that.’ And that’s one of the things that I’m most proud of.”

— Bob Uecker

17. “When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.”

— Bob Uecker

18. “Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?”

— Bob Uecker

19. “I had slumps that lasted into the winter.”

— Bob Uecker

20. “I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.”

— Bob Uecker

21. “I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.”

— Bob Uecker

22. “People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.”

— Bob Uecker

23. “I would order a dozen bats and there were times they’d come back with handles at each end.”

— Bob Uecker

24. “I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn’t have that kinda money to put out.”

— Bob Uecker

25. “When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.”

— Bob Uecker

26. “They have Easter egg hunts in Philadelphia, and if the kids don’t find the eggs, they get booed.”

— Bob Uecker

27. “They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn’t allow visitors in the clubhouse.”

— Bob Uecker

28. “Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.”

— Bob Uecker

29. “I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.”

— Bob Uecker

30. “On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.”

— Bob Uecker

31. “We were on for six years. We were in syndication for a while. It had its run. I still see the people from ‘Mr. Belvedere,’ too. We stay in touch.”

— Bob Uecker

32. “I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.”

— Bob Uecker

33. “I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it’s never at the expense of the other guy.”

— Bob Uecker

34. “I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn’t appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.”

— Bob Uecker

35. “Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.”

— Bob Uecker

36. “If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.”

— Bob Uecker

37. “My kids used to do things to aggravate me, too. I’d take them to a game, and they’d want to come home with a different player.”

— Bob Uecker

38. “When I played baseball I got death threats all the time – from my mother.”

— Bob Uecker

39. “Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.”

— Bob Uecker

40. “I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.”

— Bob Uecker

41. “Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.”

— Bob Uecker

42. “I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.”

— Bob Uecker

43. “I was acting when I was playing baseball.”

— Bob Uecker

44. “Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship – and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.”

— Bob Uecker