Author: Andy Van Slyke

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.

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I was so bad, I couldn’t have driven Miss Daisy home.

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They wanted me to play third like Brooks (Robinson) so I did play like Brooks — Mel Brooks.

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If everyone were like him (Mitch Williams) I wouldn't play. I'd find a safer way to make a living.

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A lot of the people who make these suggestions would have a hard time filling out the application forms to work at 7-Eleven.

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I'd have a better chance of catching flies with chopsticks.

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My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.

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You can't expect Mr. Ed to keep up with Secretariat.

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On the road when you go downstairs for coffee in your underwear, they throw you out of the kitchen.

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Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

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