I let previous instances creep up in my thought process sometimes. I think that's where things go awry,
and that's where the walks come in. I'm not giving up many hits, just putting them on base for free.
Jake Arrieta
A good ball club.
When asked what makes a good baseball team manager.
Yogi Berra
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours.
Yogi Berra
I didn't really say everything I said.
Pointing out that he didn't say everything that people think he said.
Yogi Berra
I thought they said steak dinner, but then I found it was a state dinner...
Regarding a fancy dinner he attended at the White House.
Yogi Berra
I usually take a two hour nap from 1 to 4.
Yogi Berra
I want to thank you for making this day necessary.
Spoken on Yogi Berra day in St Louis in 1947.
Yogi Berra
I'd say he's done more than that!
When asked if Don Mattingly had exceeded expectations.
Yogi Berra
If I didn't wake up I'd still be sleeping.
Yogi Berra
If they don't want to come, you can't stop them.
Yogi Berra
If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else.
Yogi Berra
It ain't over 'til it's over.
Commenting about the 1973 National League pennant race.
Yogi Berra
It gets late early around here...
Yogi Berra
"...It was hard to have a conversation with anyone; there were so many people talking.
Regarding a fancy dinner he attended at the White House.
Yogi Berra
It's like déjà vu all over again.
In reference to the number of home runs hit by Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle.
Yogi Berra
Never answer an anonymous letter.
Yogi Berra
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
A general comment on the game of baseball.
Yogi Berra
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
Commenting on a restaurant in St. Louis called Ruggeri's.
Yogi Berra
Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
Yogi Berra
Surprise me!
When asked by his wife Carmen where he would like to be buried.
Yogi Berra
The future ain't what it used to be.
Yogi Berra
Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra
We have a good time together, even when we're not together.
Talking about his wife Carmen.
Yogi Berra
We make too many wrong mistakes.
Yogi Berra
What? You mean right now?
When asked what time it is.
Yogi Berra
When you get to a fork in the road, take it.
Giving driving instructions to his house.
Yogi Berra
Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel!
Yogi Berra
You better make it four, I don't think I could eat eight.
After being asked how many slices should be cut in his pizza.
Yogi Berra
You can observe a lot by watching.
Yogi Berra
You don't look so hot yourself.
Replying to the Mayor of New York's wife after being told that he looked cool in his summer suit.
Yogi Berra
You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.
Yogi Berra
This record is not tainted at all. At all. Period.
Spoken after breaking Hank Aaron's Major League Baseball all-time home-run record
with his 756th career homer amid rampant speculation that he has used steroids.
Barry Bonds
Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get
anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
Garth Brooks
There it is, ladies and gentlemen, The Bronx is burning.
During Game 2 of the 1977 World Series at Yankee Stadium as a camera panned a few blocks away.
Howard Cosell
I finally get to see Marilyn.
Referring to ex-wife Marilyn Monroe.
Joe DiMaggio
Nice guys. Finish last.
Leo Durocher
Today, I consider myself, the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939.
Lou Gehrig
I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
Jacob deGrom
I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.
Gene Mauch
This is our fucking city. And nobody is going to dictate our freedom.
Remarks to Fenway Park crowd after memorial service for Boston Marathon bombing victims on April 20, 2013.
David Ortiz
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
Satchel Paige
See the ball, hit the ball.
Pete Rose
I'm going over the valley.
Babe Ruth
All I ask is that you bust your heiny on that field.
Casey Stengel
I'm going to take my talents to South Beach.
Spoken during a broadcast dedicated solely to James' basketball team decision on July 8, 2010.
LeBron James
Not One, Not Two, Not Three, Not Four, Not Five, Not Six, Not Seven...
Referring to the number of championships he intends on winning.
LeBron James
My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.
Jeremy Lin
A large edifice!
Bill Raftery
A little blow by ability.
Bill Raftery
A little head and shoulder. No dandruff, but a blow-by!
Bill Raftery
A little kiss.
Bill Raftery
A little pirouette, and they said this was a beer town!
Bill Raftery
A little ricochet romance!
Bill Raftery
A Whirling Dervish!
Bill Raftery
And when you're sleepless in Seattle, why not get a little kiss?
Bill Raftery
And the kiss off the glass.
Bill Raftery
Attacking the tin!
Bill Raftery
Bottle of blackout!
Bill Raftery
Bring your lunch!
Bill Raftery
Count your chiclets!
Bill Raftery
Chubby Checker Do the Twist!
Bill Raftery
Dagger!
Bill Raftery
Dairy Farmer.
Bill Raftery
Divine intervention!
Bill Raftery
Drops the dime...with a kiss!
Bill Raftery
Elevation!
Bill Raftery
Fill the lane! Provide the lift!
Bill Raftery
From the right wing!
Bill Raftery
Get the puppies organized!
Bill Raftery
(insert co-announcer's name), (insert team name) goes man to man!
Bill Raftery
He can do it all; let him into the band!
Bill Raftery
He can make you ask for your mommy.
Bill Raftery
He takes it to the promised land!
Bill Raftery
He's got the puppies sent off the bus.
Bill Raftery
I wheel the wheelbarrow down the street to the tin!
Bill Raftery
Jambalaya!
Response to Verne Lundquist saying: I hope Dwyane Wade likes cajun cooking!
Bill Raftery
Like a Belgian waffle....Sweet!
Bill Raftery
Most unattractive, but beneficial.
Bill Raftery
Nylon!
Bill Raftery
Nylon teeth, by the guard!
Bill Raftery
Onions!
Bill Raftery
Over early, huh Steve?
Spoken to Steve Albert when the Celtics were blowing out the Nets in the 1st quarter.
Bill Raftery
Protect the women and children!
Bill Raftery
Put a little English on it.
Bill Raftery
Send it in, big fella!
Bill Raftery
Send it in, Jerome!
Pittsburgh Panther's Jerome Lane's famous backboard shattering dunk on January 25, 1988.
Bill Raftery
Send it in, medium size fella!
Bill Raftery
Shakes the dust off...Call the Janitor!
Bill Raftery
Strong...to the goal!
Bill Raftery
Tayshaun is not a Prince, he's a King. Strokin' the Trey!
After Tayshaun Prince hit 5 three pointers to start the game.
Bill Raftery
That was a Tavernly Discard.
Bill Raftery
The big guy.
Bill Raftery
The bounce to ecstasy.
Bill Raftery
The dexterity, The agility!
Bill Raftery
The fella, from Saint Louie Louie!
After Bradley Beal started to take over.
Bill Raftery
The fill-up from distance!
Bill Raftery
The little guy...with the big ticker!
Bill Raftery
The small change.
Bill Raftery
The vegetable cart.
Bill Raftery
There's a little lingerie on the deck.
Bill Raftery
They're playing a (insert zone defense name) zone with man to man principles!
Bill Raftery
Walter at the altar: High Mass!
Bill Raftery
We got a 5 bagger.
After 4th overtime of Connecticut vs Syracuse 2009 Big East tournament quarterfinal.
Bill Raftery
We got a little nickle-dimer here.
Bill Raftery
Welcome to the block party!
Bill Raftery
Why the lefties look so pretty with that stroke, it's amazing.
Bill Raftery
With a little dipsy do.
Bill Raftery
With a little smoocher!
Bill Raftery
With authority!
Bill Raftery
With disdain to the tin!
Bill Raftery
(insert player's name) with some early onions!
Bill Raftery
With the blow-by.
Bill Raftery
With the kiss.
Bill Raftery
With the dribble drive.
Bill Raftery
With the teardrop, that'll make you cry.
Bill Raftery
With three first, then the deuce!
Bill Raftery
You might call this Newton's Law!
Bill Raftery
We are all Lakers today.
Remark to reporters after the death of Kobe Bryant, Orlando, Florida, January 26, 2020.
Doc Rivers
Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is
the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point.
Pat Summitt
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a
dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali
Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!
Muhammad Ali
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
Muhammad Ali
Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
Muhammad Ali
No, I am not going 10,000 miles to help murder, kill, and burn other people to simply help continue the domination of white
slavemasters over dark people the world over. This is the day and age when such evil injustice must come to an end.
Muhammad Ali
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown
people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?
Muhammad Ali
Don't touch me, I'll beat your brains out.
Replying to Muhammad Ali's fist being pressed to his chin.
Howard Cosell
Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!
When George Foreman knocked out then-heavyweight champion Joe Frazier on January 22, 1973.
Howard Cosell
I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life.
Leon Spinks
I wanna eat his children.
Trash talking about Lennox Lewis.
Mike Tyson
I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not
going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams
Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an
executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business.
Jean Baudrillard
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Henry Ford
Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
Robert M. Hutchins
I think the most ridiculous sight in the world is a man on a bicycle, working away with his feet as hard as he
possibly can, and believing that his horse is carrying him, instead of, as anyone can see, he carrying the horse.
George Bernard Shaw
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain
I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
Mark Twain
I have never taken any exercise, except for sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome.
Mark Twain
I take my only exercise acting as pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
Mark Twain
The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
Oscar Wilde
Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only
compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
Samuel Johnson
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck
He could go all the way!
One of the most famous sports quips of all time.
Howard Cosell
Look at that little monkey run!
Commenting on a 97-yard kickoff return by Washington Redskins player Herb Mul-Key.
Howard Cosell
That little monkey gets loose, doesn't he?
Describing Washington Redskins wide receiver Alvin Garrett during a Monday Night Football telecast on
September 5, 1983. This comment was denounced as being racist and a public apology was demanded but refused.
Howard Cosell
You play to win the game!
Herm Edwards
The team will never be known as the Remington Shavers, but I could see possibly using some of the players to promote the product.
Speaking in January, 1989.
Victor Kiam
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
It's not a matter of life and death, it's more important than that!
Henry Russell Sanders
Men, I'll be honest. Winning isn't everything. Men, it's the only thing!
Version A.
Henry Russell Sanders
Sure, winning isn't every thing; it's the only thing.
Version B.
Henry Russell Sanders
The only thing that endures is character. Fame and wealth - all that is illusion.
O. J. Simpson
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin P. Adams
Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside
of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemetries.
Saul Bellow
That was a great game of golf, fellers.
Bing Crosby
Golf may be a hussy, but I love her.
Don Herold
I can tell more about how someone is likely to react in a business situation from one round of golf than I can from a hundred hours of meetings.
Mark McCormack
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain
Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.
Lee Westwood
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
Tiger Woods
I want to say to each of you, simply and directly, I am deeply sorry for my
irresponsible and selfish behavior. I have let you down. I have let down my fans.
Tiger Woods
Do you believe in miracles?
When the United States defeated the Soviets in hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics.
Al Michaels
Woe betide the man who dares to pay a woman a compliment today ... Forget the flowers, the chocolates, the soft
word - rather woo her with a self-defence manual in one hand and a family planning leaflet in the other.
Alan Ayckbourn
I feel I could be a role model to other Hispanic gymnasts interested in the sport, but I also want them to
understand the importance of being focused, determined, and not giving up, despite all the struggles.
Laurie Hernandez
My mother was in the Army Reserve for six years. She taught me the importance of following rules, finishing what I start,
never giving up, leadership skills, teamwork, staying positive, motivated and how to pack the military way when I'm traveling!
Laurie Hernandez
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee
A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.
Bruce Lee
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Bruce Lee
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Bruce Lee
As you think, so shall you become.
Bruce Lee
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function
and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
Bruce Lee
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.
Bruce Lee
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into
your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
Bruce Lee
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
Bruce Lee
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Bruce Lee
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Bruce Lee
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only
light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Bruce Lee
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Bruce Lee
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
Bruce Lee
Real living is living for others.
Bruce Lee
Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.
Bruce Lee
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
Bruce Lee
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Bruce Lee
The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce Lee
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
Bruce Lee
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Bruce Lee
You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.
Bruce Lee
I'm hungrier than all of them. They didn't put in the effort that I did to get the title. So I don't care
what it takes - I'm not giving up that title. I worked too hard to get it, and I'm not going to lose it.
Stipe Miocic
I thought about giving up the sport, but I have a lot of good people around me: my
wife, Nina, my family. Everybody keeps helping me to be positive and moving forward.
Amanda Nunes
Man is the only animal that plays poker.
Don Herold
Piano
At 66 Sandringham Crescent
an upright piano was being eased down
a long flight of stairs by three men
all wearing off-white overalls.
Backward, staccato, two stepped
descending
one
stair
at
a
time
till the taller of the two men
began to collapse in slow
slow slow motion
and the piano
leapt
to the hallway's rising floor
crashing its memories of music:
simple tunes such as 3 Blind Mice,
as well as great meaningful sonatas
of profundity and faraway,
into a scattered anarchic jigsaw
of free-loving volatile
meaningless sounds
fading
till the stricken piano
lost its memory entirely.
After the ambulance arrived (too late)
one removal man lit a cigarette
and sensing the wide-awake stare
of the householder
tapped the grey ash, with great delicacy,
into the cupped hollow of his left hand.
Running Late
Dannie Abse
I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.
Bella Abzug
Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an
executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business.
Jean Baudrillard
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck
Running after women never hurt anybody - it's catching 'em that does the damage.
Jack Davies
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for
success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
Bertie Forbes
When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
Oliver Herford
My parents always enforce the idea of never giving up upon all of my siblings
and me, and I think that's something that will stick with me my whole life.
Nathan Chen
You can take it for granted that I am not going to waste any time thinking about
giving up how happy I am at Borussia, in the city of Dortmund, and with this team.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Some people are on the pitch. They think it's all over - it is now!
Kenneth Wolstenholme
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck
The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won, but to have fought well.
Pierre de Coubertin
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.
Carly Fiorina
I feel I could be a role model to other Hispanic gymnasts interested in the sport, but I also want them to
understand the importance of being focused, determined, and not giving up, despite all the struggles.
Laurie Hernandez
My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
Caitlyn Jenner
I thought about giving up the sport, but I have a lot of good people around me: my
wife, Nina, my family. Everybody keeps helping me to be positive and moving forward.
Amanda Nunes
I think the most ridiculous sight in the world is a man on a bicycle, working away with his feet as hard as he
possibly can, and believing that his horse is carrying him, instead of, as anyone can see, he carrying the horse.
George Bernard Shaw
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain
Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're
still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't
recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.
Douglas Adams
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is
just not worth the effort for end users, however much fun it is for nerds like us.
Douglas Adams
When that glass broke and Stone Cold
was making an entrance, and that roof blew off that building,
that sends you higher than life or anything that I know of. It's an adrenaline rush you can't explain.
Stone Cold Steve Austin
I've got my hardcore fans, and I thank them so much for being there for me and not giving up on me.
Jeff Hardy
Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and only the pig enjoys himself.
Mark McCormack
