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
"Its not whether you get
knocked down, its 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 persons 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]