Bob Uecker

Robert George Uecker (born January 26, 1935) is an American former Major League Baseball player, later an award-winning sportscaster and actor.

Other quotes

• "I was a little nervous when I played my first game. The manager told me next time I should wear the protective cup inside the uniform."
• "I won the Comeback-of-the-Year Award five years in a row!"
• "The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait 'till it stops rolling and pick it up!"
• "I must be in the front roooow!" -- In one of his TV commercials where a Yankee Stadium box-seat usher informs him he is in the wrong seat. His correct seat turns out to be in the last row of the right field upper deck.
• "Get up! Get up! Get out of here! GONE!!!" - is his "claim-to-fame" homerun call.
• Actually, his first "claim-to-fame" homerun call (from the early 80s, when the Brewers made it to the World Series) is: "It's gotta chance to GOOOOOOOO - GOOOOONNNNEEE!"