Posted 09.30.15 �
"If a lot of people gripped a
knife and fork the way they do a
golf club, they'd starve to death." �
Sam Snead, professional golfer [Golf
Quotes from Sam Snead]
Posted 09.29.15 �
"Phil is obviously a good
coach. You don't win that many games
without being a damn good coach, ...
Remember one thing: He's been very
fortunate. He picks his spots.
That's all I can say." � Red Auerbach,
basketball
coach and team executive, on Phil
Jackson, basketball coach [Quotes from
Red Auerbach]
Posted 09.28.15 � "Once
you are labeled 'the best' you want
to stay up there, and you can't do
it by loafing around." �
Larry Bird, basketball player [Larry
Bird Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]
Posted 09.27.15 � "Let
the teachers teach English and I
will teach baseball. There is a lot
of people in the United States who
say 'isn't' and they ain't eating." � Dizzy Dean,
baseball player [Baseball
Quotes from Dizzy Dean]
Posted 09.26.15 �
"But it's still a coach's game. Make
no mistake. You start at the top. If
you don't have a good one at the
top, you don't have a cut dog's
chance. If you do, the rest falls
into place. You have to have good
assistants, and a lot of things, but
first you have to have the chairman
of the board." �
Paul "Bear" Bryant, football
coach [Football
Quotes from Bart Starr]
Posted 09.25.15 �
"Putting is a fascinating,
aggravating, wonderful, terrible and
almost incomprehensible part of the
game of golf." � Arnold Palmer,
professional golfer [Golf
Quotes from Arnold Palmer]
Posted 09.24.15 �
"You mean right now?" �
Yogi Berra, baseball
player, when asked by Mickey
Mantle, baseball player, "Hey,
Yog, what time is it?" [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 09.23.15 �
"It ain't over 'til it's over." �
Yogi Berra, baseball
player and manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 09.22.15 �
"It�s not whether you get
knocked down, it�s whether you get
up.� � Vince
Lombardi, football coach [Quotes from Vince Lombardi]
Posted 09.21.15 �
"I have observed that baseball
is not unlike a war, and when you
come right down to it, we batters
are the heavy artillery." � Ty Cobb, baseball
player [Baseball
Quotes from Ty Cobb]
Posted 09.20.15 �
"The fairways were so narrow
you had to walk down them single
file." �
Sam Snead, professional golfer [Golf
Quotes from Sam Snead]
Posted 09.19.15 �
"Most of your great coaches do
some teaching and developing of
players. Phil may be able to do it,
but he hasn't shown it. His teams
have been ready-made." � Red Auerbach,
basketball
coach and team executive, on Phil
Jackson, basketball coach [Quotes from
Red Auerbach]
Posted 09.18.15 � "Push
yourself again and again. Don't give
an inch until the final buzzer
sounds." �
Larry Bird, basketball player [Larry
Bird Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]
Posted 09.17.15 � "It
puzzles me how they know what
corners are good for filling
stations. Just how did they know gas
and oil was under there?" � Dizzy Dean,
baseball player [Baseball
Quotes from Dizzy Dean]
Posted 09.16.15 �
"Mama wanted me to be a
preacher. I told her coachin' and
preachin' were a lot alike." �
Paul "Bear" Bryant, football
coach [Football
Quotes from Bart Starr]
Posted 09.15.15 �
"Give Starr time, and he'll
make a winner out of the Packers." �
Tobin Rote,
football player, on Green Bay
Packers teammate Bart Starr [Football
Quotes from Bart Starr]
Posted 09.14.15 �
"When I was growing up, they
had just found radio." � Arnold Palmer,
professional golfer, when asked if
he watched much golf on television
when he was growing up [Golf
Quotes from Arnold Palmer]
Posted 09.13.15 �
"You don't save a pitcher for
tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain." �
Leo Durocher, baseball
manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 09.12.15 �
"I thought he had been shot." �
Joe DiMaggio, baseball
player, on what he thought had
happened to Mickey Mantle,
baseball player, when Mantle went
down with a knee injury after
tripping over an exposed drain pipe
while chasing a fly ball in the 1951
World Series [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 09.11.15 �
"How dumb can you be." �
Casey Stengel, baseball
manager, to Mickey Mantle,
baseball player, after Mantle struck
out on three straight high, inside
pitches left-handed [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 09.10.15 �
"Take it with a grin of salt." �
Yogi Berra, baseball
player and manager [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 09.09.15 �
"The quality of a person�s life
is in direct proportion to their
commitment to excellence, regardless
of their chosen field of endeavor.� � Vince
Lombardi, football coach [Quotes from Vince Lombardi]
Posted 09.08.15 �
"I had to fight all my life to
survive. They were all against me...
but I beat them and left them in the
ditch." � Ty Cobb, baseball
player [Baseball
Quotes from Ty Cobb]
Posted 09.07.15 �
""Of the mental hazards, being
scared is the worst. When you get
scared, you get tense." �
Sam Snead, professional golfer [Golf
Quotes from Sam Snead]
Posted 09.06.15 �
"The commercial class has
always mistrusted verbal brilliancy
and wit, deeming such qualities,
perhaps with some justice, frivolous
and unprofitable." � Red Auerbach,
basketball
coach and team executive [Quotes from
Red Auerbach]
Posted 09.05.15 � "I've
got a theory that if you give 100%
all of the time, somehow things will
work out in the end." �
Larry Bird, basketball player [Larry
Bird Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]
Posted 09.04.15 � "I
never have been sick. I don't even
know what it means to be sick. I
hear other players say they have a
cold. I just don't know what it
would feel like to have a cold - I
never had one." �
Honus Wagner, baseball
player [Baseball
Quotes from Dizzy Dean]
Posted 09.03.15 � "I
won twenty-eight games in 1935 and I
couldn't believe my eyes when the
Cards send me a contract with a cut
in salary. Mr. Rickey said I
deserved a cut because I didn't win
thirty games." � Dizzy Dean, baseball
pitcher, on his salary negotiations
that year with Branch Rickey,
St. Louis Cardinals team executive [Baseball
Quotes from Dizzy Dean]
Posted 09.02.15 �
"I was the original socially
depraved, shy ghetto kid." � Bob Cousy,
basketball player and coach, on
growing up in a poor, ethnically
diverse section of Queens in New
York City [Bob
Cousy Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]
Posted 09.01.15 �
"Coach Lombardi showed me that
by working hard and using my mind, I
could overcome my weakness to the
point where I could be one of the
best." � Bart Starr,
football player, on Vince
Lombardi, football coach [Football
Quotes from Bart Starr]