Goose Gossage
Goose Gossage
Richard Michael "Goose" Gossageis a former Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher. During a 22-year baseball career, he pitched for nine different teams, spending his best years with the New York Yankees and San Diego Padres. The nickname "Goose" came about when a friend did not like his previous nickname "Goss", and noted he looked like a goose when he extended his neck to read the signs given by the catcher when he was pitching. Although Gossage is otherwise generally...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth5 July 1951
CountryUnited States of America
I don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind of a respectful thing.
There is nobody that wants to win more than George Steinbrenner.
These messages that we are sending our kids and the kind of lives people lead today so superficial it seems, just a lot of phony stuff. What does it mean when you really stop and think about it's kind of stupid.
Baseball as I have said before to many... many parents it's not about wins and losses. It's about the life lessons that are learned on that baseball field. The perseverance, the hard work that it takes, dealing with failure.
The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of ten times at the plate. So what does that tell you about the game and its difficulty?
Every life lesson is on that baseball field.
If your child's gonna be a star it's going to happen and just let it happen.
The only urgency that I ever had was when my mom was alive. She died last year in September of 2006. She was my number one fan and she always said I'd love to see you go into the Hall of Fame. That was the only urgency that I ever had that I wish if I was going to go into the Hall of Fame that certainly it would've happen when she was around, but it didn't and now that she's passed.
I think that Jim Rice should be in the Hall of Fame. I think that Craig Nettles should be in the Hall of Fame and he didn't even get a sniff.
Bert Blyleven certainly was a starting pitcher that had tremendous success in the big leagues. Jimmy Rice, this guy if you had to face him, I tell you what he'd get your attention cause he was a great... great player. I think those guys deserve some recognition, but it didn't happen for them. For whatever reason, I really can't answer that.
I'd like to be remembered for the way I went about doing my job.
I had set the standard for my style of relief pitching so high that when I came back to the rest of the pack, everybody said I was done.
I played for nine different teams throughout my 22-year major league career and I loved every moment of every team.
Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.