Quotes About Learning

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.

He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.

I still learn, but I think it's the best thing in life to have a kid.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right

Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.

I don't care how long you've been around, you'll never see it all.

I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved.

The older you get, the more you learn.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me

There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often form our best experience.

Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.