Chuck Dressen quotes

Chuck Dressen quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Give me five players like Robinson and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team in baseball.”
-- Chuck Dressen

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“There is no room in baseball for a clown.”
-- Chuck Dressen

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.”
“All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.”
“Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.”

Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989
“I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that.”

Source : "Adam Sandler Interview GROWN UPS". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. June 21, 2010.
“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.”
“You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early.”
“We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.”
“I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.”
“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.”

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