Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.

- Joe Garagiola

You really have to be some kind of a creep for a dog to reject you.

- Joe Garagiola

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

- Joe Garagiola

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.

- Joe Garagiola

I went through baseball as a player to be named later.

- Joe Garagiola

My first baseman is George "Catfish" Metkovich from our 1952 Pittsburgh Pirates team, which lost 112 games. After a terrible series against the New Y…

- Joe Garagiola

It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.

- Joe Garagiola

Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears whi…

- Joe Garagiola

It's pitching, hitting and defense that wins. Any two can win. All three make you unbeatable.

- Joe Garagiola