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Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.
Bud Wilkinson
It is how you show up at the showdown that counts.
Homer Norton
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Lou Holtz
Close doesn’t count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Frank Robinson
Discipline is not a dirty word.
Pat Riley
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
Vin Scully
The only way I’m coming to Washington is if I am elected. And if I do, I will paint the White House pink and turn it into a Mexican restaurant.
Bill “The Spaceman” Lee
I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won’t matter if I get this guy out.
Bill The Spaceman” Lee
I have four basic pitches: fastball, curve, slider and change-up, plus eight illegal ones.
Tommy John
A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
Chuck Noll
Success isn’t something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.
Sparky Anderson
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.
Aristotle
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.
William Shakespeare
The only way to maximize potential for performance is to be calm in the mind.
Brian Sipe
Playing golf is like going to a strip joint. After 18 holes you’re tired and most of your balls are missing.
Tim Allen
Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher in baseball. He is always pitching when the other team doesn’t score any runs.
Tim McCarver
Sports fans, I have the final score for you on the big game between Harvard and William & Mary. It is: Harvard 14, William 12, Mary 6.
Steve Allen
Baseball owners have moral scruples against taking any man’s dollar when there is a chance to take a dollar and a quarter.
Red Smith
Why do people sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” when they’re already there?
Larry Andersen
If he’s a good fastball hitter, should I throw him a bad fastball?
Larry Andersen
I am going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
Jerome Bettis
A hot dog at the ballpark is better than a steak at the Ritz.