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Dizzy Dean
4 quotes
“, I wish you and Satchel played with me on the Cardinals. Hell, the pennant would be won by July 4th and we could go fishing until World Series time.”
Dizzy Dean (1910–1974) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Circa October 1934 (following a post-season exhibition game between the and an MLB all-star team composed primarily of members of the 1934 World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinals), as quoted in "Brown Bambino of Baseb…
“I ain't done nothin' about my language yet, but I want to say one thing. It don't make no difference how you say it, just so you say it in a way that makes sense. Did you ever meet anyone in your life that didn't know what ain't means?”
Dizzy Dean (1910–1974) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted, circa fall 1942, by the ; reproduced in "Ain't It the Truth," Des Moines Tribune (October 10, 1942), and in America's Dizzy Dean (1978) by Curt Smith, pp. 121–122
“Well, this 'headwork' on my part comes in good because the ball hits me smack dab in the middle of the forehead and knocks me colder than a mackerel, but I busts up the double play. I don't come to for a half-hour, and they rush me to the hospital to take a lot of X-rays and see how bad off I am. [...] The next day the papers come out with big headlines, "Dizzy Dean's Head Shows Nothing." I think they could have worded it different.”
Dizzy Dean (1910–1974) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Recalling his ill-fated appearance in Game 4 of the , in The Dizzy Dean Dictionary and What's What in Baseball (1943); reproduced in "Sports of the Times: Dizzy Dean, Author Extraordinary" by , The New York Times (Septe…
“You learn 'em English, and I'll learn 'em baseball.”
Dizzy Dean (1910–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in America's Dizzy Dean (1978) by Curt Smith, p. 120