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They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets.
Oct 1, 2025
If you can eliminate the yelling and listen to the message, there's a great message there.
All I know is I have a job here as long as I win.
He has the players too happy.
We set the table, but no one ate.
Play him, fine him, and play him again.
Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.
Earl gave me his version of what happened and asked me not to suspend the umpires.
The only reward in this game is winning. It's no fun to practice; it's no fun to play and lose.
Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be.
I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it.
When I was younger, I thought that the key to success was just hard work. But the real foundation is faith. Faith - the idea that 'I can do it' - is the opposite of fear ('What if I fail?'). And faith creates motivation which in turn leads to commitment, hard work, preparation ... and eventually success.
Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.
I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
You play to win the game.
Two out of every three goals you score come from checking. One out of every three comes from sheer finesse.
Everybody makes mistakes, that's why they put erasers on pencils
Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
The smaller the detail the greater the value.
Winning is a great deodorant.
The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.
Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.
There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for gifts.
The coaching profession doesn't hand you any gifts.
Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results.
Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.
There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.
Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.
If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
Blame is the cowards way out.
My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'
A lot of guys go through their whole careers and don't win a championship, but are still great coaches.
Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.
Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.
Coaching is making men do what they don't want, so they can become what they want to be
As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.
It's like you came to a controversy and a ball game breaks out.
You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.
It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long.
Oosthuizen's red spot is a classic example of what's known in sports psychology as a process goal-a technique by which the athlete is required to focus on something, however minor, to prevent them from thinking about other things: in Oosthuizen's case, all the ways he could possibly screw up the shot.
The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
The most prepared are the most dedicated.
It's always something that's going to be a part of me. It's the reason why I work so hard each and every day. It's the reason I come to work dedicated to become the best that I can be. Nothing's going to come easy in life, and I've learned a lot of lessons, some the hard way, and I think just the things that I've been through have helped mold me into the person I am and what (is in) my future and that's continuing to do things the right way.
Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.