Chick Hearn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The dollar that's being paid the players has hurt the game. The players take advantage of coaches. The players' attitude is, "I make more than you, so don't tell me what to do."
-- Chick Hearn

#Hurt #Attitude #Player
Players are spoiled by charter airplanes, the finest hotels, a big per diem every day.
-- Chick Hearn

#Airplane #Player #Finest
I always like to pretend two things: one, I'm sitting in the seat beside you watching the game together. I'll say, 'Wasn't that a great shot? Boy, it sure was.' The other thing I do is pretend I'm talking to people who are non-sighted. I try to create a word picture. I get more mail from blind people thanking me.
-- Chick Hearn

#Boys #Talking #Games
The game's in the refrigerator, the door's closed, the light's out, the eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard and the Jell-O's jiggling,
-- Chick Hearn

#Doors #Games #Eggs
Portland can put the champagne away and get out the bottled water, 'cause that's all they're gonna drink on their way home!
-- Chick Hearn

#Home #Water #Way
Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.
-- Chick Hearn

#Winning #Thinking #Lakers
You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.
-- Chick Hearn

#Majority #Please

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
Hold her for me. Hold her tight. Don't let her be lonely. Don't let her hurt. Please.
Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me
In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned.
The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.
Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.
Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, weâ€™re embarrassed because thatâ€™s not the way we want to play soccer.
I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost.
Thank you to my family, my fans and fans of other teams for their support. The NFL is a fraternity of brothers and I am thankful for the tweets, phone calls and text messages from my fellow players. God Bless everyone and thank u so much,

Chick Hearn famous quotes

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