Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Alvin Dark.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Alvin Ralph Dark, nicknamed "Blackie" and "The Swamp Fox", was an American professional baseball shortstop and manager. He played fourteen years in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston/Milwaukee Braves, the New York Giants (1950β56), the St. Louis Cardinals (1956β58), the Chicago Cubs (1958β59), and the Philadelphia Phillies (1960). Later, he managed the San Francisco Giants (1961β64), the Kansas City/Oakland Athletics, the Cleveland Indians (1968β71), and the San Diego Padres (1977). He was a three-time All-Star and a two-time World Series champion, once as a player (1954) and once as a manager (1974).
The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.
Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.
Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.
A manager doesn't hear the cheers.
In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.
Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.
The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'
There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.
There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.