Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wooden

What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.

Bill Cowher

I think the pass to Hines was just a great call by Whiz.

Mike Ditka

I think the big thing in following a diet like this is some discipline in your life. You've got to be able to say no to certain things.

Bear Bryant

I think when it really hit me that I had to get out to keep the program from going down was after the Mississippi Southern game this year.

Don Nelson

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that.

Al McGuire

I think the world is run by 'C' students.

Darrell Royal

He's not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can't sing.

Darrell Royal

Sometimes you have to suck it up and call a number.

Darrell Royal

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's rear end every day.

Darrell Royal

If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.

Darrell Royal

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

Darrell Royal

Three things can happen when you pass and two of 'em are bad.

Darrell Royal

If everything had already been done, there would be nothing left for young people to accomplish. There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

Frank Leahy

When the going gets tough, let the tough get going.

Al Lopez

They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.

Al Lopez

I usually stick out my hand and hope he puts the ball in it. Except the one time I went out to take Early Wynn out. I stuck out my hand and he hit me right in the stomach with the ball.

Don Shula

I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.

Barry Switzer

It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.

Abe Lemons

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

Abe Lemons

I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

Abe Lemons

It was a hole in one contest and I had a three.

Abe Lemons

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.

Abe Lemons

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.

George Karl

When you have Ruben Patterson and Reggie Evans out there? When you don't know what play to run, just let them play? Let them go into the backyard, lower the fence and let the dogs go do it.

Don Shula

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Hayden Fry

If you stay with this game long enough, the worm is bound to turn.

Vince Lombardi

Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.

Sparky Anderson

The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

Sparky Anderson

You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun.

Sparky Anderson

Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

Maurice Cheeks

We all think that Andre is this veteran player, because he has played so many games in his first two seasons. We take for granted that he should be at another level, but he has to grow a little more.

Steve Spurrier

Our stadium seats over 80,000, and we sell all of our tickets.