Quotes by Lou Brock - Page 1

The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Sports
Baseball
Fantasy
Held
Offered
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The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Sports
Messages
Penalties
Penalty
Sent
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I don't have to steal bases. I steal bases because I want to.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Bases
Stealing
Want
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One of the trademarks of a champion is that he can outlast you.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Champion
Trademarks
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No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Sports
Baby
Pain
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I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Sports
Competition
Goal
Records
Thinking
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Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Inspirational
Inspiring
Leadership
Motivational
Fear
Guy
Time Fear Me
Time Me Look
Afraid
Me
Bad
Beat
Show
Every
Every Time
Look
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If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a manager.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
General Manager
Manager
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Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Kings
Sports
Pride
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Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Alive
Crow
Heard
Jackie
Jim Crow
Pride
Jim
Robinson
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Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Competition
Skills
Warfare
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Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Bats
Battle
Perfect
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Your bat is your life. It's your weapon. You don't want to go into battle with anything that feels less than perfect.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Battle
Life Your Anything
Bat
Weapon
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When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Funny
Running
Dad
Sports
Bed
Imagine
Legs
Animals
Cut
Quickly
Solved
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We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Sports
Cheating
Moving
Radical
Cheaters
Ok
Steroids
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Some players tell me that since retiring they've had the urge to go somewhere every three days. To satisfy that urge, they may even jump in the car and drive around the block.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Block
Retiring
Car Me Drive
Drive
Somewhere
Jump
Satisfy
Urge
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If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Sports
Challenges
Records
Successful
Approaching
Challenged
Period
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You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Sports
Baseball
Conquer
Errors
Naked
Challenge
Crowd
Master
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You can't hide God in you. God was not meant to become part of you, and you hide out in the closet. I don't think He wanted that. I think He wanted people to see the Christ in you that reflects Him.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Christ
God People See
Meant
Closet
Hide
Reflects
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Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn't give me a handbook on how to do it; they said do it. Under those conditions you go out and develop your own handbook.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Bases
Conditions
Give Me
Staying
Your Me Game
Your Game Me
Develop
Handbook
Prerequisite
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They will look at my career as the guy who gave it all but at the same time did it with integrity. That's what we all aim for - the respect of the game as well as the honesty that's played a part of that game.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Aim
Honesty
Integrity
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I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Athlete
Campus
Inner Voice
Way Home
Inner
Petrified
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I was not in the church, but we claim, like so many people, 'Yeah, I grew up in the church.' Well yeah, I grew up in the church and went to church, but I knew nothing about the Lord. I had no idea what it meant about walking in faith.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Faith
Church
Grew
Lord
No Idea
Walking
Yeah
Meant
Claim
So Many People
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There is a definite loneliness in the game. Most people stay away from you since they think they're intruding upon your time. And after the ball game, when it's 11 o'clock and you want to eat dinner some place, the restaurants are closed.
Lou Brock / Baseball Player
Definite
Dinner
Loneliness
Restaurants
Ball Game
Closed
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