Play him, fine him, and play him again.
Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances with some of them birds.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.
Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around.
I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it.
Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.
Coach Landry was a master at maintaining discipline and creating an environment where ordinary people could achieve extra ordinary results.
The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.
Playing for Billy Martin is like being married to him. Right now, we're all sleeping on the couch.
It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long.
Two out of every three goals you score come from checking. One out of every three comes from sheer finesse.
This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.
Your power play can win you games, and your penalty killers can save you games.
Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching, who throws strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing outfield and who's always thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll do to baffle the other team. Any manager would want a guy like that playing for him. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer and come down out of the stands and do those things.
Excuses are like rear ends. Everybody has one and they stink.
We set the table, but no one ate.
He has the players too happy.
Blame is the cowards way out.
There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.
I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.
He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.'
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