Quotes by Alvin Dark

• In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
• The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.
• The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.
• The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'
• Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.
• Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
• A manager doesn't hear the cheers.
• A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.
• Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.