Johnny Pesky Quotations

I can't remember him every criticizing a player. He was a peach of a guy.

If I was a poet laureate, I couldn't find the words.

Fortunately, for a lot of us, we had a lot of these guys that I played with my rookie year. I missed three years, (but) at that time you thought nothing of it. We got playing and we were winning and you thought it was never going to end. But it did end. It was just a fine time.

He was in the clubhouse before the game. He was really easy to speak to. He dressed well. He was a peach of a guy.

He was in a class with Mel Allen and all those great announcers. You always go by the voice, and when they got that good voice, you could listen to them all day.

He was a very unpretentious guy, and there was nothing conceited about him at all. He had a great body, and was good-looking with curly hair. He was a great guy to be around.

I thought the pole was plenty, ... When something like this happens, it makes you feel pretty good. But I don't want to die just yet.

That's the word I always had for him. He had that smooth way about him, that pleasant nature. He never screamed or hollered. And he never ripped a player because he didn't have to. He'd just tell you what he was seeing, and you could make your own opinion.

We had two years in a row with the Yankees. We always played them pretty good in those years. We beat them our share, but not as much as we should have.

First time anything like this has ever happened to me. I've been in the game over 60 years. I was kind of struggling (Saturday). I was like a fish out of water.

I used to dodge them pretty good. I saw something in the kid shortstop. I wanted to talk to his coach first. I just had a suggestion I wanted to make to him. I'm not going to tell him how to play or anything like that ... but I never got there.

It was for the whole shebang, you know? ... You play every day tooth and nail in order to be in a spot like that.

It was my own damn fault. I was in the wrong place.

He sent me a fruit basket and a card signed by all his teammates. I was very surprised. He didn't have to do that. It was very nice of him. He came into the (Sox) clubhouse after it happened and apologized, but I told him there was no need. It was my fault.

I think if you're Red Sox, well, it's something you're born with, and affection you have.

When you win you eat better, sleep better and your beer tastes better. And your wife looks like Gina Lollobrigida.

Baseball can build you up to the sky one day and the next day you have to climb a stepladder to look up at a snake.