Posted 08.31.15
"I have a tip that can take
five strokes off anyone's game. It's
called an eraser." Arnold Palmer,
professional golfer [Golf
Quotes from Arnold Palmer]
Posted 08.30.15
"You argue with the umpire
because there is nothing else you
can do about it."
Leo Durocher, baseball manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 08.29.15
"After a play in the field
Casey would turn (to the players on
the bench) and say 'What did he do
wrong?' or 'You're better than that
guy.' Either way, he'd keep them
from getting stale."
Mickey Mantle, baseball player,
on
Casey Stengel, baseball
manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 08.28.15
"Some of you fellers are getting
'Whiskey Slick."
Casey Stengel, baseball
manager, to baseball players Mickey Mantle,
Billy Martin and Whitey
Ford in a team meeting scolding
them about their off the field
antics [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 08.27.15
"So I'm ugly. I never saw
anyone hit with his face."
Yogi Berra, baseball
player and manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 08.26.15
"Once a man has made a
commitment to a way of life, he puts
the greatest strength in the world
behind him. Its something we call
heart power. Once a man has made
this commitment, nothing will stop
him short of success. Vince
Lombardi, football coach [Quotes from Vince Lombardi]
Posted 08.25.15
"Every great batter works on
the theory that the pitcher is more
afraid of him than he is of the
pitcher." Ty Cobb, baseball
player [Baseball
Quotes from Ty Cobb]
Posted 08.24.15
"Those who go along get along."
Sam Snead, professional golfer [Golf
Quotes from Sam Snead]
Posted 08.23.15
"Natural abilities are like
natural plants; they need pruning by
study." Red Auerbach,
basketball
coach and team executive [Quotes from
Red Auerbach]
Posted 08.22.15 "Leadership
is diving for a loose ball, getting
the crowd involved, getting other
players involved. It's being able to
take it as well as dish it out.
That's the only way you're going to
get respect from the players."
Larry Bird, basketball player [Larry
Bird Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]
Posted 08.21.15 "I
don't want my picture in any
cigarettes, but I also don't want
you to lose the ten dollars, so I'm
enclosing my check for that sum."
Honus Wagner, baseball
player, in a letter to a tobacco
company that had sent him a payment
for printing his picture on a card
it intended to distribute with
packages of cigarettes [Baseball
Quotes from Dizzy Dean]
Posted 08.20.15
"I ain't what I used to be, but
who the hell is?." Dizzy Dean, baseball
pitcher [Baseball
Quotes from Dizzy Dean]
Posted 08.19.15
"My biggest win was getting the
meal money bumped from $5 to $7." Bob Cousy,
basketball player and coach [Bob
Cousy Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]
Posted 08.18.15
"Desire and dedication are
everything!" Bart Starr,
football player [Football
Quotes from Bart Starr]
Posted 08.17.15
"You know you're getting old
when all the names in your little
black book have M.D. after them." Arnold Palmer,
professional golfer [Golf
Quotes from Arnold Palmer]
Posted 08.16.15
"What do you think, I was born at
60?"
Casey Stengel, baseball
manager, to Mickey Mantle,
baseball player, when Mantle
expressed surprise that Stengel had
once been a player [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 08.15.15
"Son, it ain't the water cooler
that's striking you out."
Casey Stengel, baseball
manager, to Mickey Mantle,
baseball player, when Mantle kicked
the dugout water cooler after
striking out [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 08.14.15
"Well, God is certainly getting
an earful tonight." Jim
Murray, sportswriter, after the
death on Sept. 29, 1975, of Casey
Stengel, baseball manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 08.13.15
"Nobody goes there anymore
because it's too crowded."
Yogi Berra, baseball
player and manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 08.12.15
"Unless a man believes in
himself and makes a total commitment
to his career and puts everything he
has into it his mind, his body,
his heart whats life worth to
him? Vince
Lombardi, football coach [Quotes from Vince Lombardi]
Posted 08.11.15
"Baseball was one hundred
percent of my life." Ty Cobb, baseball
player [Baseball
Quotes from Ty Cobb]
Posted 08.10.15
"Basketball is like war in that
offensive weapons are developed
first, and it always takes a while
for the defense to catch up." Red Auerbach,
basketball
coach and team executive [Quotes from
Red Auerbach]
Posted 08.09.15 "I
wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real
strong. Some guys will just take off
and it's like, whoa. So I beat them
with my mind and my fundamentals."
Larry Bird, basketball player [Larry
Bird Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]
Posted 08.08.15
"In all my years of play, I
never saw an ump deliberately make
an unfair decision. They really
called them as they saw 'em."
Honus Wagner, baseball
player [Baseball
Quotes from Honus Wagner]
Posted 08.07.15
"All ballplayers want to wind
up their career with the Cubs,
Giants or Yankees. They just can't
help it." Dizzy Dean, baseball
pitcher [Baseball
Quotes from Dizzy Dean]
Posted 08.06.15
"I was the original socially
depraved shy ghetto kid." Bob Cousy,
basketball player and coach [Bob
Cousy Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]
Posted 08.05.15
"If you work harder than
somebody else, chances are you'll
beat him though he has more talent
than you." Bart Starr,
football player [Football
Quotes from Bart Starr]
Posted 08.04.15
"They'd have to carry me out
here before they would get me in a
golf cart." Arnold Palmer,
professional golfer, when carts were
permitted on the Senior Tour for the
first time in 1985 [Golf
Quotes from Arnold Palmer]
Posted 08.03.15
"Win any way you can as long as
you can get away with it."
Leo Durocher, baseball manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 08.02.15
"Casey wanted us to stay loose.
That didn't mean clowning around. He
just meant we should be confident
and relaxed. We shouldn't feel that
one strikeout was going to end the
season for us."
Mickey Mantle, baseball player,
on
Casey Stengel, baseball
manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 08.01.15
"There
comes a time in every man's life and
I've had plenty of them."
Casey Stengel, baseball
manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]