Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Carl Hubbell

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Carl Hubbell.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Carl Owen Hubbell, nicknamed "the Meal Ticket" and "King Carl", was an American Major League Baseball player. He was a pitcher for the New York Giants of the National League from 1928 to 1943, and remained on the team's payroll for the rest of his life, long after their move to San Francisco.

American - Athlete | June 22, 1903 - November 21, 1988

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Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.

Carl Hubbell

If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

Carl Hubbell

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

Carl Hubbell

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

Carl Hubbell

It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

Carl Hubbell

As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

Carl Hubbell

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

Carl Hubbell

I had no chance of controlling a ball game until I first controlled myself.

Carl Hubbell

The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

Carl Hubbell