Quotations From Richard Nixon

"I don't know a lot about politics, but I do know a lot about baseball."

"I like the job I have now, but if I had my life to live over again, I'd like to have ended up a sports writer."

"I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen."

"It's terrific for someone (his son in law got a job as a Senator's statistician) to be able to bust out and do the thing he really wants to do."

"They may play softball down in Plains, but they play hardball in the country."

"Were you (the Apollo 11 astronauts after their splashdown) told how the All Star game came out?"

Quotations About Richard Nixon

"BEST OF LUCK TO YOU ON OPENING DAY AND EVERY DAY. WATCH OUT FOR THAT NIXON. DON'T LET HIM THROW YOU A CURVE. YOUR FRIEND, HARRY TRUMAN." - Telegram To Clark Griffith From Harry Truman

"I'm retired, so I got a call one day from Robin Roberts. He wanted me to introduce him and Bob Friend and the others to Richard Nixon, who was a lawyer in New York. When I consented to do, and I called Nixon, who I knew from Navy days in the Marianas. I had kept in contact with him and we were very friendly. They wanted him to take the job as their players representative, to run the Major League Baseball Players Association. He told them he would be glad to take the job but he had political obligations so he was not in a position to do it. He offered to do the law work for them for a very reasonable amount of money." - Bob Feller

"I won't sleep any better tonight knowing Nixon wants to be a sportswriter." - Joe Garagiola

"This isn't a guy that shows up at season openers to take bows and get his picture in the paper and has to have his secretary of state tell him where first base is. This man knows baseball." - Dick Young

Quotations From & About Richard Nixon