A Few Great Quotes, on Sports and Life
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by user Ron Sen, MD
Dick Allen "I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere — except Philadelphia."
Casey Stengel "The trick is to keep the ten guys who hate you, away from the fifteen guys who havn't made up their minds yet."
Red Auerbach “The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.”
John Wooden “If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything."
Yogi Berra "I never said most of the things I said."
Phil Jackson “If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.”
Vince Lombardi "Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."
Bill Russell “The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.”
Mickey Mantle "I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'"
Satchel Paige "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?"
Bill Lee "The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the '60s I tested everything."
Date
Mon 09/04/06, 11:26 am EST
Murray (building to a crescendo): "Button into the right hander and out of it, and the gap between him and Mika Hakkinen IS A MERE THREE TENTHS OF A SECOND. IF HE KEEPS THIS UP HE'S GOING TO GO UP TO THE SECOND PLACE ON THE GRID, BECAUSE JARNO TRULLI'S TIME WAS 7-TENTHS OF A SECOND SLOWER THAN THAT OF MIKA HAKKINEN. LOOKING SMOOTH, LOOKING CLEAN, LOOKING TOTALLY IN CONTROL OF THINGS. INTO THE BUS STOP, OUT OF THE BUS STOP, OVER THE LINE WILL GO JENSON BUTTON AND HE IS IN . . . . . . . . . . . ."
Martin (softly): "Stays third."