Ned Colletti famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Do I use VORP? I may be using it and not even know it, and if I am, it's nobody's business. There are a lot of different criteria in judging players. I think I use, um, esoteric qualitative mathematical review times five. That's one of them.
-- Ned Colletti

#Player #Thinking #Judging
I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.
-- Ned Colletti

#Player #Want #I've Learned
The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.
-- Ned Colletti

#Baseball #League #Giants
The more experienced you are, the better off you are.
-- Ned Colletti

#Better Off
I told [McCourt] the season is like a kaleidoscope. Every day it changes one degree and the picture is different.
-- Ned Colletti

#Degrees #Different #Kaleidoscope

You always catch the wrong players.
I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.
Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.
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.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.
When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?
Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.

Ned Colletti famous quotes

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