Barry Switzer quotes
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“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.”
-- Barry SwitzerSource : "Dreading a Tie Vote in the Electoral College". www.omaha.com. October 12, 2004.
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“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.”
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“People don't know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it.”
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“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.”
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“It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.”
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“The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him.”
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“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.”
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“The interceptions and two fumbles? Those just happened at the wrong time.”
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“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”
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“Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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“Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.”
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Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989
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Source : "An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.
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Source : A. A. Milne (2013). “The Red House Mystery and Other Novels”, p.1247, eBookIt.com
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