Quotes About Wisdom

You can't teach court savvy

The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.

Don't talk too much or too soon.

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

There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.

When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

He can have heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there's no fighter smarter than me.

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

Live as if you were living already for the second time.

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.

You can't afford to live your life with regrets.

The older you get, the more you learn.

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more.

Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.

You understand... just what the Taoists mean when they say that soft is stronger than hard.

For Kant one can be both good and stupid; but for Aristotle stupidity of a certain kind precludes goodness.

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.