Dick Williams quotes

Dick Williams quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess.”
-- Dick Williams

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“New York is great, but the New England fans are probably the most knowledgeable and ardent fans, and not just in baseball, but all sports. But Red Sox Nation is Red Sox Nation.”
-- Dick Williams

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“In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'”
“I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.”
“She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me.”

Source : Anne Stuart (2012). “Ice Storm”, p.246, Harlequin
“I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and when I hit the wall - because of the impact - my right leg kind of came in at like a knife-type angle and stabbed my leg with my own skate blade.”
“Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.”
“"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.”

Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The First and the Last: The Rise and Fall of the German Fighter Forces, 1938-1954”
“Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.”
“L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.”
“Access to information and freedom of access to it may seem like a fundamental right but there are many people who think, rightly or wrongly, it is for your own good that it is hidden.”
“Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.”

Source : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books

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