35 Quotes by Lou Brock


  • Author Lou Brock
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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. The baseball held was my fantasy of what life offered.

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  • Author Lou Brock
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    I was probably as big a fan of the event as anyone else there. After all, I'd never seen anybody get three thousand hits either.

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    I've been here since March 2. My wife wants us to stay until the end of the month, but I've told her we've got to go home a week earlier than that.

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  • Author Lou Brock
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    Competition is what keeps me playing the psychological warfare of matching skill against skill and wit against wit.

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    No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

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  • Author Lou Brock
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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.

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