
On hitting at Forbes Field; as quoted and paraphrased in "Clemente Unorthodox?" Well, He Gets Results"
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>
Catch Phrases
Source: http://www.sportscenteraltar.com/phrases/phrases.asp Sports Center Catchphrases
On hitting at Forbes Field; as quoted and paraphrased in "Clemente Unorthodox?" Well, He Gets Results"
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>
Baggio on his physical and mental state before taking the last penalty in the shoot-out of the 1994 World Cup final against Brazil.
Source: "Divine by moniker, divine by magic"., FIFA.com., 1 June 2014 https://www.fifa.com/fifa-tournaments/players-coaches/people=174363/profile.html,
From A Day in the Bleachers (1955), p. 116; reprinted in The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told: Thirty Unforgettable Tales from the Diamond https://books.google.com/books?id=dj6_F7omJZcC&pg=PA151&dq=%22Now+it+was+Liddle%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAWoVChMIwoTj2c7GxwIVRDw-Ch2howea#v=onepage&q=%22Now%20it%20was%20Liddle%22&f=false (2001), edited by Jeff Silverman, p. 151
Sports-related
As quoted in "Clemente Says Hitting Does Not Come Easy" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=UagkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xqAFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5876%2C6101257 by Ralph Bernstein (AP), in The Reading Eagle (March 26, 1968)
Baseball-related, <big><big>1960s</big></big>, <big>1968</big>
“If you pitch me inside, I'll hit the ball to McKeesport.”
Circa 1970, '71 or '72, as quoted by Blass in "Through Good and Bad, Blass' heart is with Pirates” https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/141557288/ by Rick Hummel, in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Sunday, July 27, 2003), p. 22
Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>
Variant: You pitch me the fuck inside and I hit the fucking ball to McKeesport.
“Hit first! Hit hard! Keep on hitting!! (The 3 H's)”
p274 https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/274/mode/1up
Memories (1919) https://archive.org/stream/memoriesbyadmira00fishuoft#page/n0/mode/2up
“I'm ready. They hit me hard. I hit them hard. Doesn't matter who hits. What matters is results.”
Steve Schrader (April 13, 2008) "What the NBC microphones picked up: Predator taunting", Detroit Free Press.