Don Haskins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I really did not think a thing about playing five black players to start the game; they were our best players and deserved to start. But if I knew all the misery it was going to cause me in the weeks following the game, I'd have thought long and hard about it. The players from Kentucky were gracious about it, but many of their fans and people from other parts of the country did not want to see it.
-- Don Haskins

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I played for the best coach who ever lived, Henry Iba. I wasn't intimidated by Adolph Rupp.
-- Don Haskins

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It's not about talent, it's about heart. It's about who can go out there and play the hardest. They're not going to give us anything, so you've got to go out there and you've got to take it.
-- Don Haskins

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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.
I'm not a good guitar player.
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
I want to help Manchester United win the Premier League and become the best player in the world.
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,

Don Haskins famous quotes

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