R- THE DON Quotes

Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.

Has he (Rickey Henderson) ever been here (Spring Training) the first day? You have to say Rickey's consistent. That's what you want in a ballplayer - consistency.

Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.

I want to be on the field. It's a better place to talk to the guys. It's a relaxed atmosphere. You want to make sure you know what's going on, not just with the hitters.

What did I do to deserve this?

I don't know what to say other than you're really honored another team is looking at you.

I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

I'm lucky - I don't feel any pressure.

As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow and your conscience feeds, on all that you thought you should be.

They don't keep their promises in the promised land, its getting mighty hard to find an honest man.

When I go on the road now, which is less than before, but still more than I'd like to, I think of myself primarily as a singer. Not a songwriter, not a celebrity, just a man who likes to sing.

Work my hands in the soil, what's the pay for all the toil? Dust for blood, dust for blood, dust for blood.

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.

I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you're around every second.

In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed

Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?

In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.

The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.

I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.

I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.

Helter skelter in a summer swelter.

I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.

The only thing success should do is make you more humble.

In the end, what your own troops do is more important than who they are marching against.

Sometimes the best recruits are the ones you don't get.

If you have to 'try hard' to 'try hard, you are already beaten.

I tell everyone that I have 25,000 assistant coaches. If I want to know something, I just go to the grocery store.'

The key to success is to do the next right thing right.

Shared suffering makes a team a team.

Let your players know that you love them.

Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.

You have to learn things in every game because you are not going to be able to practice two-and-a-half to three hours (during the season), so the games have to be the ultimate learning experience.

We have to get a lot tougher. If you get involved in a street fight, you can't lay down in the street and act like you're dead because they will kill you for sure. You might as well get up and fight.

If I cover my head with my hands, it means deny the ball to the opponent's ball handler.

Time doesn't fly when you are not happy.

Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.

There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.

Coaching is the vehical we use to reach/ help people.

Every coach should be recording games to watch...use your VCR.

Don't be in a hurry to change during the season.

Go from good to great because good is the enemy of great.

We have 2,500 students and an 8,000-seat basketball arena. You do the math on how important basketball is in Aberdeen.

Nobody travels better than Northern State fans and nobody knows the game better than Northern State fans. If I'd die and went to heaven and I was coaching, it would be at Wachs Arena.

Ten minutes after you lose that last game, you start working on next season.

Put your two best players away from the ball and bring it back to them.