27 Quotes by Vernon Law

Nice people around Pittsburgh.

That's what I think most players want to be remembered as, being a good competitor. Not being a guy who makes excuses. There are a lot of guys who make an excuse before the game why they're not going to win. And those guys are losers.

I liked Jackie as an individual. I felt bad about how he was treated. He's a better man than me by far.

We played on a sandlot all summer. There was no little league back then.

I could not have taken what he took, sliding into second base and having a guy stand over you and spit on you, call you every name in the book. Believe me, for him not to respond, to ignore it and not retaliate, you can't say enough good about Jackie.

At 87, I have to keep moving because, if I sit down, you never know what might happen.

Sometimes you're going to be shoved into a corner, and even though it's against your principles, against the way that you like to play the game, you're going to have to protect your own players.

Our whole family had been sports oriented. My dad had played a lot of semipro but never had any opportunity to do anything with it. Back then, he had to make a living.

I wanted to be successful enough that I'd have opportunities to talk about the church. I wanted people to listen whenever I talked about it.