Motivation Quote by Bob Uecker

The flex lands because it’s plainly not a flex. Bob Uecker, a career .200-ish hitter who turned “mediocre ballplayer” into a brand of comic truth-telling, delivers bravado with a built-in trapdoor. “I set records that will never be equaled” sounds like the standard athlete mythmaking we’re trained to expect. Then he yanks the rug: “I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.” The punchline reframes “records” as the kind you’d rather keep off the back of the baseball card: strikeouts, futility streaks, the statistical paper trail of getting overmatched.

The intent is self-deprecation, but the subtext is sharper than modesty. Uecker is mocking the machinery that turns every career into a narrative of greatness. Baseball is uniquely cruel in how it archives failure; it doesn’t just remember your bad days, it averages them. By joking that his records shouldn’t be printed, he’s treating stats like gossip: technically true, socially inconvenient, best left unamplified.

Context matters: Uecker’s second act as a broadcaster and entertainer made him beloved precisely because he refused the heroic pose. He models a different kind of sports masculinity, one that doesn’t need denial or spin. The line also sneaks in a weird kind of pride: you can only set “unbreakable” bad records by sticking around long enough to compile them. It’s comedy that quietly respects endurance, and it works because it tells the truth athletes rarely say out loud: the game will humble you, and the box score will testify.