Bud Grant famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A good football coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback - but not necessarily in that order.
-- Bud Grant

#Football #Dog #Order
We have no leadership. They rule by herd. Nobody is in charge. It reminds me of a bunch of cows.
-- Bud Grant

#Football #Cows #Herds
If you have something critical to sat to a player, preface it by saying something positive. That way when you get to the criticism, at least you know he'll be listening.
-- Bud Grant

#Player #Coaching #Listening
The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.
-- Bud Grant

#Sports #Team #Tragedy

There were moments when I wondered at the gossamer veil that stops licence from being libel. I suspect that taking on the job of England manager puts you outside the protection of the courts. It must be part of the job description that you will be held hostage by media speculation and can have your character tortured, molested and finally executed at the public whim, in exchange for a lifetime's supply of money.
I'm not good for you. I don't know why you make me want you so bad. I was angry with myself when I said all that earlier. I was mad because I wanted you in a way I'd never experienced before. Before you, I just wanted to excel in football and school. I wanted my parents to be proud of me. But now, I want other things too. You get to me in a way I don't understand
I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
Women's football does have its knockers.
At 15, 16, you think you're going to be captain of England. But I realised it wasn't going to happen for me on a windy November night in Darlington, coming to my peak at the age of 23 but still playing for Mansfield Town.
Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.
Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
The media no longer hesitate to whip up lurid anxieties in order to increase sales, in the process undermining social confidence and multiplying fears.
In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that sacred protected space, so we can make our work. That's the only work that's worth making, right? That's the place where we can be free enough and vulnerable enough to share what we have to share.

Bud Grant famous quotes

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