Barry Switzer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
-- Barry Switzer

#Sports #Baseball #Thinking
The only way Iâ€™d ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and thatâ€™s the only way I would do it.
-- Barry Switzer

#Mom #Play #White
People don't know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it.
-- Barry Switzer

#Mean #Oklahoma #People
It never changes. Football is a game of repetition, mental and physical. You may try to articulate it a little different, but it's the same thing: Get better players, make fewer mistakes, and drill the fundamentals into your players' heads. The rest of it is a joke. Teams aren't winning because of what they had for breakfast of what some coach said in the locker room.
-- Barry Switzer

#Football #Mistake #Team
It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
-- Barry Switzer

#Heart #College #Nfl
The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him.
-- Barry Switzer

#Keys #Nfl #Guy
The only way I’d ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and that’s the only way I would do it.
-- Barry Switzer

#Mom #Play #White
The interceptions and two fumbles? Those just happened at the wrong time.
-- Barry Switzer

#Two #Wrong Time #Interceptions

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.
You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
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.
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

Barry Switzer famous quotes

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