The best Quotes by Ralph Kiner

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.

You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.

Why are there so many Latina's in Illinois?
Because that's where the Chica go.

Take me away, like I overdosed on cocaine
Or take me away like a bullet from Kurt Cobain, suicide
I'm from a windy city like Do or Die

You can leave Chicago, but it will never leave you.

Village idiot? Hello, Chicago is a city, not a village, and the best city in the world!

Looking at Chicago from outside the city in daylight is one of the most depressing sights in the world.

Two-thirty, baby, won't you meet me by The Bean?
Too early, maybe later you can show me things
You know what it is, whenever I visit
Windy city, she blowin' me kisses

There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.

I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.

I miss everything about Chicago - except January and February.

Chicago is my hometown and will always have a special place in my heart.

Baseball is more than a sport, it's what drives me.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

Everything I have, I owe to baseball and the Dodgers.

I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.

My style is I work hard at it. I feel like I'm prepared every day.

You win a championship, and you feel 7 feet tall.

That's what I love about baseball, that it gives the opportunity for every single guy to develop and play the game. There's not a rule that you have to be 6 foot or you have to be real strong to play baseball or to become a good player.

I never stop looking for things to try and make myself better.

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

I just want to play baseball.

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.

I do everything in a straightforward manner.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

Beast Mode doesn't make excuses. It doesn't complain. Whatever you're doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.

I love L.A., but you can get into a lot of trouble out here.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball.

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.