Quotes of: John-wooden Keyword

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

Arthur Ashe

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Arthur Ashe

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

Arleigh Burke

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

Alan Shepard

I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.

Bear Bryant

Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

Barry Commoner

I didn't know the organization, but the one thing you can say about the FBI, it's tremendously professional.

Robert Mueller

The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America.

Robert Mueller

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

Ted Williams

I'm not trying to win a popularity poll. I'm trying to win football games.

Woody Hayes

Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

Woody Hayes

I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there.

Woody Hayes

I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em.

Woody Hayes

To me, basic SEAL training was a lifetime of challenges crammed into six months.

William H. McRaven

So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy.

Witold Pilecki

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

William Tecumseh Sherman

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

William Westmoreland

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

William Westmoreland

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

William Westmoreland

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

William Westmoreland

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

Anthony Zinni