George Herman Quotes

George Herman

Profession : Journalist

Birth : January 14, 1920

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

George Herman

The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go.

George Herman

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

George Herman

I'll win more games playing everyday in the outfield than I will pitching every fourth day.

George Herman

You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad.

George Herman

The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.

George Herman

I have only one superstition... Touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

George Herman

Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.

George Herman

Striking out batters was easy.

George Herman

How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.

George Herman

I hit big or I miss big.

George Herman

I like to live as big as I can.

George Herman

I know, but I had a better year than Hoover.

George Herman

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

George Herman

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.

George Herman

I've never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.

George Herman

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

George Herman

You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

George Herman

To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.

George Herman

Watch my dust.

George Herman