Posted 06.30.15
"To a father, when a child
dies, the future dies; to a child
when a parent dies, the past dies." Red Auerbach,
basketball
coach and team executive [Quotes from
Red Auerbach]
Posted 06.29.15
"People who work together will
win, whether it be against complex
football defenses, or the problems
of modern society." Vince
Lombardi, football coach [Quotes from Vince Lombardi]
Posted 06.28.15
"You know those two-foot
downhill putts with a break? I'd
rather see a rattlesnake."
Sam Snead, professional golfer [Golf
Quotes from Sam Snead]
Posted 06.27.15
"It ain't braggin' if you can
back it up." Dizzy Dean, baseball
pitcher [Baseball
Quotes from Dizzy Dean]
Posted 06.26.15
"Not after all the time my dad
spent teaching me to switch-hit."
Mickey Mantle, baseball
player, to a sportswriter who
suggested that Mantle become a
full-time right-handed batter after
injuries hampered him from the left
side [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 06.25.15
"You look up and down the bench
and you have to say to yourself,
'Can't anybody here play this game?' "
Casey Stengel, baseball
manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 06.24.15
"It ain't the heat, it's the
humility." Yogi Berra, baseball
player and manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 06.23.15
"The only correct actions are
those that demand no explanation and
no apology." Red Auerbach,
basketball
coach and team executive [Quotes from
Red Auerbach]
Posted 06.22.15
"The achievements of an
organization are the results of the
combined effort of each individual."
Vince Lombardi, football
coach [Quotes from Vince Lombardi]
Posted 06.21.15
"Thinking instead of acting is the
number one golf disease." Sam
Snead, professional golfer [Golf
Quotes from Sam Snead]
Posted 06.20.15
"Son, what kind of pitch would
you like to miss?" Dizzy
Dean, baseball
pitcher, to an opposing batter [Baseball
Quotes from Dizzy Dean]
Posted 06.19.15
"There are only five things you
can do in baseball run, throw,
catch, hit, and hit with power."
Leo Durocher, baseball
manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 06.18.15
"We used to tease each other
about whose liver was going to go
first. I never thought it would end
for him this way." Mickey
Mantle, baseball
player, on the death of Billy
Martin, baseball player and manager,
in an automobile accident [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 06.17.15
"He foresaw the platooning that
managers like Casey Stengel
used years before it happened. He
told me I had to be a switch-hitter
if I was going to play."
Mickey Mantle, baseball
player, on his father, Mutt
Mantle [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 06.16.15
"We are in such a slump that
even the ones that are drinkin'
aren't hittin." Casey
Stengel, baseball
manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 06.15.15
"You win pennants in the off
season when you build your teams
with trades and free agents."
Earl Weaver, baseball
manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 06.14.15
"I didn't really say everything
I said." Yogi Berra, baseball
player and manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 06.13.15
"That Medwick never lost a
debate in his life, mostly because
he didn't bother. He was a one man
rampage." Leo Durocher, baseball
player and manager, on Joe
Medwick, baseball player [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 06.12.15
"There's a manager I could play
for." Reggie Jackson, baseball
player, on Billy Martin,
baseball manager, in 1976 [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 06.11.15
"My dad taught me to
switch-hit. He and my grandfather,
who was left-handed, pitched to me
everyday after school in the back
yard. I batted lefty against my dad
and righty against my granddad."
Mickey Mantle, baseball
player, on his father, Mutt
Mantle, and his grandfather,
Charles Mantle [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 06.10.15
"Good pitching will stop good
hitting and vice-versa."
Casey Stengel, baseball manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 06.09.15
"You got a hundred more young
kids than you have a place for on
your club. Every one of them has had
a going away party. They have been
given the shaving kit and the fifty
dollars. They kissed everybody and
said, 'See you in the majors in two
years.' You see these poor kids who
shouldn't be there in the first
place. You write on the report card
'4-4-4 and out.' That's the lowest
rating in everything. Then you call
'em in and say, 'It's the consensus
among us that we're going to let you
go back home.' Some of them cry,
some get mad, but none of them will
leave until you answer them one
question, 'Skipper, what do you
think?' And you gotta look every one
of those kids in the eye and kick
their dreams in the ass and say no.
If you say it mean enough, maybe
they do themselves a favor and don't
waste years learning what you can
see in a day. They don't have what
it takes to make the majors, just
like I never had it." Earl
Weaver, baseball manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 06.08.15
"I never blame myself when I'm
not hitting. I just blame the bat
and if it keeps up, I change bats.
After all, if I know it isn't my
fault that I'm not hitting, how can
I get mad at myself?" Yogi
Berra, baseball player [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 06.07.15
"Some guys are admired for
coming to play, as the saying goes.
I prefer those who come to kill." Leo
Durocher, baseball manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]