Don Sutton
Don Sutton
Donald Howard "Don" Suttonis an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseballas a right-handed pitcher. He played for 23 seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, and California Angels. He won a total of 324 games, 58 of them shutouts and five of them one-hitters, and he is seventh on baseball's all-time strikeout list with 3,574...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth2 April 1945
CityClio, AL
CountryUnited States of America
People ask all the time, 'What's he done with his life?' ... He's enjoyed it.
Most kids at that age had 4-H projects. My mother had me.
I am the most loyal player money can buy.
Let's face it. To win 300 games, you have to win 15 games a year for 20 years. Not many guys are going to want to pitch 20 years.
Not true at all. Vaseline is manufactured right here in the United States.
I'm the most loyal player money can buy.
Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
Find the grain of truth in criticism-chew it and swallow it.
I think the pitching situation is a huge, huge difference. But I also think the youth of that team is an asset. We had a lot of guys with a lot of scars on them.
I think you form a bond of different personalities where even without saying a word you challenge each other to be good. You don't want to be the weak link in the chain.
I think it's going to be very difficult. Are guys talented enough? Oh, heck yes,
He's almost like another kid or nephew of mine.
There are a lot of similarities to that situation. I remember sitting on the plane with Bob Boone, and he said, 'Sometimes when you let the air out of a balloon, it's hard to pump it up again.' That's how we felt.
It has nothing to do with age, ... I think it has to do with the makeup of the person.