Abe Lemons famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
-- Abe Lemons

#Motivational Sports #School #Doctors
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
-- Abe Lemons

#Retirement #Days Off #Trouble
You always catch the wrong players.
-- Abe Lemons

#Sports #Player #Psychology
You mean in the state?
-- Abe Lemons

#Sports #Mean #States
Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.
-- Abe Lemons

#Mistake #Doctors #Scholarship
We did have three go to the YMCA.
-- Abe Lemons

#Basketball #College #Ymca
I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.
-- Abe Lemons

#Football #Years #Games
I don't have any tricky plays. I'd rather have tricky players.
-- Abe Lemons

#Player #Play #Tricky
They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.
-- Abe Lemons

#Sports #Contracts #Let Me
You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.
-- Abe Lemons

#Sports #New York #Oklahoma
I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?
-- Abe Lemons

#Leadership #Sports #Drink
If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules.'
-- Abe Lemons

#Sports #Airplane #Guy
Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.
-- Abe Lemons

#Sports #Sick #Want
Coaches who shoot par in the summer are the guys I want on my schedule in the winter.
-- Abe Lemons

#Summer #Winter #Guy
Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.
-- Abe Lemons

#Missing #Damn #Referee

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