Johnny Evers quotes

Johnny Evers quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“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

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“My favorite umpire is a dead one.”
-- Johnny Evers

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“There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in.”
-- Johnny Evers

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“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

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“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

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“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.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti's remarks at the press conference banning Pete Rose from baseball, August 24, 1989.
“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.”

Source : "Golden Globe Nominee Abel Korzeniowski Talks Madonna, ‘W.E.,’ Score" by Bill Desowitz, www.indiewire.com. January 11, 2012.
“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.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
“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.”

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