Tom Seaver Quotes

For thirty-five years, David Halberstam, an unsilent member of the Silent Generation, has contemplated America and its place in the world, casting his eye on big subjects - Vietnam, global economics, race, mass media, and the 1950s.

The Cubs are due in sixty-two.

I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.

The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.

A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold.

The Dodgers to me are the Yankees of the National League.

I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking.

I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

Barack Obama is not Harry Truman, who dropped the A-bomb on Japan to stop World War II. Barack Obama is not John F. Kennedy, who lowered marginal tax rates to get economic growth and job creation. Barack Obama and the far left, they are a completely different ball of wax.

With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.

South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake.

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.

The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.

I would suggest, that we analyze and copy the strategy of the enemy [Asian Communists]; theirs has worked and ours has not.

Mr [Harry] Truman announced today that Russia had set off its first atomic explosion. Public reaction was varied…. Today the Brooklyn Dodgers are one-half behind the St Louis in the National League and the Yanks and the Boston Red Sox are neck and neck. And the American public is basically probably more interested in this race than in the race of atomic energy.

The United States of America… cannot have a viable foreign policy if we are humiliated in Vietnam. We must not lose in Vietnam. It’s as cold as that. Right?... And they have not given us any way to avoid being humiliated. And since they have not, we must draw the sword, so the blockade is on.

I don't recall anyone who was strongly against except one man, and that was the President [JFK]. The President just didn't want to be convinced that this was the right thing to do.... It was really the President's personal conviction that U.S. ground troops shouldn't go in.

America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people.

I'd like to get to the last game of the World Series at Wrigley Field and hit three homers. That was what I always wanted to do.

We want to win a World Series for Detroit. That's our goal.

Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

My No. 1 thing is to win a World Series. The rest comes as it comes.