22 Inspirational Smoky Joe Wood Quotes (BASEBALL)

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I don't believe in overdoing anything. I just try to throw a good ball, the best I know how. — I don’t **believe** in overdoing anything. I just try to throw a good ball, the best I know how.

Keep your temper. Always remember, you can't throw and fight at the same time. — Keep your temper. Always remember, you can’t throw and fight at the same time.

Luck goes with being a good pitcher. It's part of the game. — **Luck** goes with being a good pitcher. It’s part of the game.

Baseball is all I ever wanted. I could eat, sleep, and dream baseball. — Baseball is all I ever wanted. I could eat, **sleep**, and **dream** baseball.

“But wherever I was I played baseball. That’s all I lived for. When I sat up on the front seat of that covered wagon next to my father, I was wearing a baseball glove. That showed anybody who was interested where I wanted to go.”
Smoky Joe Wood

When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it. — When I wasn’t lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it.

I threw so hard I thought my arm would fly right off my body.

The pitcher who can throw a 'dust-raiser' will have plenty of batters popping up. — The pitcher who can throw a ‘dust-raiser’ will have plenty of batters popping up.

A pitcher must be sure of his pitches. And he must be very fast.

I never could hit Koufax. It was all that speed and that one left-handed curve. — I never could hit **Koufax**. It was all that speed and that one left-handed curve.

9 Smoky Joe Wood Quotes About Pitching and Baseball

“The smaller the town the more important the ball club was. But if you beat a bigger town they’d practically hand you the key to the city. Any if you lost a game by making an error in the ninth or something like that, well, the best thing to do was just pack your grip and hit the road, because they’d never let you forget it.”
Smoky Joe Wood

Keep cool. Always think. It's all you need. — Keep cool. Always think. It’s all you need.

I think you can wear a good pitcher down. You have to wait for him, make him pitch to you.

It's harder to pitch when you're ahead in the count than it is to pitch when you're behind. — It’s harder to pitch when you’re ahead in the count than it is to pitch when you’re behind.

Work, work, work. If you don't have that, you're no good. — Work, work, work. If you don’t have that, you’re no good.

When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.

“I don’t know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn’t the best at that.”
Smoky Joe Wood

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew. — There are a lot of people who know me who can’t understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic. — Even if I hadn’t have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.

3 Deep Smoky Joe Wood Quotes that will Make You Think

“I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband’s family name – she is in effect lost, evaporated from all records under her maiden name. I finally understand the anger behind feminism – the idea that as a woman you are property to be conveyed between your father and your husband, but never an individual who exists independently. And on the flip side, it is also one of the few ways one can legitimately get lost – no one questions it.”
Smoky Joe Wood