Bobby Wallace Quotes

When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running.

Even the slowest guy can go from first to third and help win a ballgame.

The shortstop is a perfectly conditioned athlete. You're running out on relays all the time. You're covering second base. On every pitch, you're moving.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

People say I stole a lot of bases. I stole the bases for a reason. I crossed the plate.

As we all know, Cooperstown is the home of baseball. One of the many duties of the home plate umpire is to make sure that the runner touches home. Well, if you're a true baseball fan, you need to visit Cooperstown. This is home.

If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

I always liked the defensive part of baseball.

The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.

When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about.

Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper.

Certain guys, they can see a guy do a certain thing with their glove and know what pitch is coming. I couldn't do that. But I can get on first base and I can tell you by his move if that pitcher is going to first base or home plate every time.

I used to play second base, leftfield and centerfield.

I even steal bases. I hear all the time that I'm slow, but hey, I have 66 stolen bases.

In football, things happen so quickly.

In football, sometimes things go very quickly.

I grew up playing in the outfield and junior year of high school I went over to first base and got some tidbits from my dad, but it kind of came naturally to me.

When you're playing first base, you help the infielders a lot. They appreciate you when you pick their ball. It's fun to help that.

I'm a great inside and outside runner.

Well, I mean, I like to be pretty athletic off the mound in terms of taking care of my job, which is covering first base, fielding bunts in certain situations, fielding slow rollers to the first base and having to communicate and direct traffic.

I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first.

As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch it with my bare hand. I hit the ground, bounced back up, and threw Burroughs out at first.

Brooks Robinson is not a fast man, but his arms and legs move very quickly.

Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!

Casey didn't easily forgive a guy who got doubled up on a hit-and-run play. He didn't see any reason why the runner couldn't take a quick glance back toward the plate to make sure the ball was hit safely.