Bill Lee Quotes & Sayings

“You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.”

“People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw.”

“The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.”

“The more self-centered and egotistical a guy is, the better ballplayer he's going to be.”

“I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.”

“When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.”

“The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.”

“You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.”

“I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.”

“That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.”