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Top 20 Dennis Eckersley Quotes (2025 Update)

Dennis Eckersley Quote: “I was in good control of my body, and I kept my head still.”

1. “I was in good control of my body, and I kept my head still.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.”

2. “Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.”

3. “People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you’re an important part of the team.”

4. “When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you’re an important part of the team.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “You aren’t going to stick around long with just two pitches.”

5. “You aren’t going to stick around long with just two pitches.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “I also think that I had great mechanics.”

6. “I also think that I had great mechanics.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.”

7. “The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.”

8. “I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That’s the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.”

9. “But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That’s the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.”

10. “I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.”

11. “They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “I can’t recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.”

12. “I can’t recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston.”

13. “I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important.”

14. “My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn’t start.”

15. “When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn’t start.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something’s bound to happen.”

16. “I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something’s bound to happen.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.”

17. “Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “I’m proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.”

18. “I’m proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.”

19. “That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.”

20. “But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn’t always better.”

21. “It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn’t always better.”

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Dennis Eckersley Quote: “Then you figure out that if you don’t throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It’s more important where you put it.”

22. “Then you figure out that if you don’t throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It’s more important where you put it.”

— Dennis Eckersley

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