{"id":37,"date":"2022-02-22T18:28:54","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T18:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.223.111.131\/don-drysdale\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2022-02-22T18:29:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T18:29:52","slug":"quotes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/dondrysdale.com\/index.php\/quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"37\" class=\"elementor elementor-37\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-248ad9c elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"248ad9c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b37aa93\" data-id=\"b37aa93\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b0c706f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b0c706f\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-92149ab\" data-id=\"92149ab\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6403149 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6403149\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 29-01-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Quotes<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5bfa0b4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5bfa0b4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Quotes by Don Drysdale<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a5daf62 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a5daf62\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.19.0 - 29-01-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>\u201cA torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it\u2019s all over baby.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cIf they knocked two of your guys down, I\u2019d get four. You have to protect your hitters.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cIn Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody\u2019s conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don\u2019t know that such a thing exists anymore.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cI hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it\u2019s over.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cIt\u2019s a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cMy own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cSome of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don\u2019t look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don\u2019t back up their beards.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cThe pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid, and if he is timid, he has to remind the hitter he\u2019s timid.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cWhen I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cWhen we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cI always used to think that he [Hank Aaron] had a lot of Stan Musial in his stance. From the pitcher\u2019s mound they both seem to coil at you. The only sensible thing \u2013 if you couldn\u2019t get the manager to let you skip a turn against him \u2013 was to mix the pitches and keep the ball low, and if you were pitching to spots it was important to miss bad. If you missed good, and the ball got in his power zone, sometimes you were glad it went out of the park and was not banged up the middle.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cWhat being around [Sal] Maglie did for me was to confirm this idea in my mind and refine it. It was part of the game. I watched Maglie, I listened to Maglie, and it all sunk in. It just sort of clicked.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e383ba4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e383ba4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Quotes about Don Drysdale<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df3bcc4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"df3bcc4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u201cBatting against Don Drysdale is the same as making a date with a dentist.\u201d<br \/>\u2014 Dick Groat<\/p><p>\u201cDon Drysdale would consider an intentional walk a waste of three pitches. If he wants to put you on base, he can hit you with one pitch.\u201d<br \/>\u2014 Mike Shannon<\/p><p>\u201cI hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he\u2019d come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, \u2018Do you want me to sign it?&#8217;\u201d M<br \/>\u2014 ickey Mantle<\/p><p>\u201cI personally think it\u2019s too bad if a batter gets hit crowding the plate. I know that Don Drysdale, Larry Sherry and Stan Williams felt the same way when they pitched for the Dodgers in the late 1950s and early \u201960s. That was the formula I was raised on. Come to think of it, I\u2019ve never seen a batter apologize for smashing a line drive off some part of a pitcher\u2019s torso\u201d<br \/>\u2014 Roger Craig,\u00a0<span class=\"italictext\">Inside Pitch<\/span><\/p><p>\u201cThe trick against Drysdale is to hit him before he hits you.\u201d<br \/>\u2014 Orlando Cepeda<\/p><p>\u201cHome plate is 17 inches wide. But to Don Drysdale it is divided into three parts \u2013 the inside four inches, the middle nine inches, and the outside four inches. To him only the middle part belongs to the hitter; the inside and outside parts belong to the pitcher.\u201d<br \/>\u2014 Dave Anderson,\u00a0<span class=\"italictext\">New York Times<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes Quotes by Don Drysdale \u201cA torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it\u2019s all over baby.\u201d \u201cIf they knocked two of your guys down, I\u2019d get four. 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