Quotes About Wisdom

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they're successful.

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

Knowledge isn't power until it is applied.

Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson.

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly.

I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages.