Bob Gibson: Self

Quotes 

• Tom Wedloe : [Fishing Gibson out of the water and onto the airboat]  Y'know, we haven't met some place, have we? You look familiar.

  Bob Gibson : No, I don't think so.

  Tom Wedloe : Well, Tom Wedloe's the name. I'm the game warden.

  Bob Gibson : Bob Gibson.

  Tom Wedloe : [Star struck]  Bob Gibson? You mean the - hey, you're not the St. Louis Cardinals pitcher who won three games from the Red Sox are ya, in the World Series?

  Bob Gibson : [Smiling]  Well, yeah, me and eight other guys, we beat the Red Sox.

• Bob Gibson : [Dubiously, after hearing of Mark's guerilla baseball strategies]  Where'd you learn all this stuff?

  Mark Wedloe : In a book on baseball I got.

  Bob Gibson : Who wrote it - Jack the Ripper?

  Mark Wedloe : It's Inside Baseball, Mr. Gibson.

  Bob Gibson : It's dirty baseball. And I bet whoever wrote it is a busher.

  Mark Wedloe : I've read it and I'm undefeated. I've won six straight games.

  Bob Gibson : Mark, I'd rather lose than use those tricks.

• Mark Wedloe : I'm retiring from baseball, Mr. Gibson. I'm no good in the clutch.

  Bob Gibson : in the clutch? Mark, did you know I lost the very first World Series game I was ever in?

  Mark Wedloe : You did?

  Bob Gibson : That's right. In '64 against the Yankees. I didn't quit. I just tried a little harder the next time.

  Tom Wedloe : Then you won the next five World Series games in a row, right, Bob?

  Bob Gibson : That's right.

  Mark Wedloe : Maybe I can make a comeback, Mr. Gibson?

  Bob Gibson : That's right.