Johnny Evers famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A ballplayer has two reputations, one with the other players and one with the fans. The first is based on ability. The second the newspapers give him.
-- Johnny Evers

#Player #Two #Giving
My favorite umpire is a dead one.
-- Johnny Evers

#Umpires #My Favorite
There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in.
-- Johnny Evers

#Character #Friendly #Helping
In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get a base on balls.
-- Johnny Evers

#Desire #Balls #Cases
I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.
-- Johnny Evers

#Careers #Hitting #Made

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.
Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team
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.
My music lives because of real players.
I can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.
I want to be the best player to ever play this game.
Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
I am a big admirer of Sachin and his personality. He is a source of inspiration for the country and just looking at his photographs gives a lot of positive vibes.

Johnny Evers famous quotes

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