Don Andrews quotes

“There is a rare exception of mainstream sports that have a fatality rate. That's motor sports and rodeo, ... football, baseball, basketball, hockey, you make a mistake and you give up a run or some points. In these two sports, if you make a mistake, it could cost you your life.”
-- Don Andrews

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“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.”

Source : "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.

“He who controlleth the backboard, controlleth the game.”

“Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.”

“It's a profession in which, the longer you stay, the closer you are to being fired.”

“Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise.”

“After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.”

“If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.”

“I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.”

“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.”

Source : "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

“There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem - once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit.”