Abe Lemons Quotes

• Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

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  Motivational Sports, School, Doctors

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• The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

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  Retirement, Days Off, Trouble

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• You mean in the state?

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  Sports, Mean, States

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• Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

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  Mistake, Doctors, Scholarship

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• We did have three go to the YMCA.

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  Basketball, College, Ymca

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• I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.

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  Football, Years, Games

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• I don't have any tricky plays. I'd rather have tricky players.

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  Player, Play, Tricky

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• They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.

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  Sports, Contracts, Let Me

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• You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

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  Sports, New York, Oklahoma

  "Lemons won 599 games during 34-year career". www.espn.com. September 6, 2002.

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• If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules.'

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  Sports, Airplane, Guy

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• Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.

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  Sports, Sick, Want

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• I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?

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  Leadership, Sports, Drink

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• Coaches who shoot par in the summer are the guys I want on my schedule in the winter.

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  Summer, Winter, Guy

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• Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.

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  Missing, Damn, Referee

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• You always catch the wrong players.

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  Sports, Player, Psychology

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