(15 quotes found)
“I told [Johnny] Bench once, 'If you had come with me, you could be the principal of a high school by now'.”
Abe Lemons
“I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.”
“I asked [Bud] Koper after the game why he didn't show up to eat and he told me he wasn't hungry. If I had a rule that said you couldn't start or couldn't play if you missed the pregame meal, then we would have lost the game [Koper scored 44 points in a victory]. Sometimes it's better not to have that many rules.”
“Maybe it would be best for me to finish at 599. People seem to like you better when you finish just short.”
“You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'”
