Brooks Robinson Quotes

"If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job."
- Brooks Robinson
(Related: Job)

"Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else."
- Brooks Robinson
(Related: Faith, People, Baseball, Want, Will)

"Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts."
- Brooks Robinson
(Related: Reason)

"It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word."
- Brooks Robinson
(Related: Time, Moments, Pretty, Word)

"If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job."
- Brooks Robinson
(Related: Job)

"I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession."
- Brooks Robinson
(Related: Baseball, Name, Obsession, Passion)

"Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book."
- Brooks Robinson
(Related: Now, Years)

"I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those."
- Brooks Robinson