aldelgreco
Footballguy
A sampling of the last few days of "Bumper-Sticker Bill's'' fortune-cookie utterings:
ON ENDING A CAREER: "What's that Frank Sinatra song? It Was a Very Good Year, this and that.''
ON PASSING INACCURACY: "His girlfriend wasn't winning many teddy bears at the arcade."
ON CHANGING HABITS: "Let's not try to talk a cat down off a fish truck."
ON ERRATIC PLAY: "Ian Baker Finch! Ian Baker Finch won the British Open. Two years later he couldn’t hit a golf ball with a golf club."
ON SUPERVISION: "Even when he doesn’t think I’m watching him, I’m watching him."
ON FAMILIARITY: "It's one of those they know that I know that they know, you know?"
ON BAD TACKLING: "You better order a coffin for Watkins.''
ON FRIENDSHIP: "My whole life I’ve always had some guys. You gotta have some guys. That’s probably one of the fears I have when I get older: that I won’t have any guys."
ON CRITICISM: "They can get the hearses out if they want, but I'm not riding in them yet."
ON FLUKES: "You know, anybody can land a lucky punch.''
ON MOTIVATION: "I got that (baseball bat) because I got a couple of St. Bernards on this team. You know why they’re called St. Bernards? Because I got to hit them with a stick to get ’em to do anything."
ON GUTLESSNESS: "This is the story of our last game. We were Cyclone Hart."
ON BLAME: "Blame nobody, expect nothing, do something."
ON LOSERS: "Losers assemble in little groups and ##### about the coaches and the system and other players in other little groups. Winners assemble as a team."
ON SELF-PITY: "I'm not crying the blues. I'm a big boy!"
ON QUITTING: "Losing may take a little from your credibility, but quitting will destroy it."
ON HIS ANGER: "I can built concern into Mount St. Helen's.''
ON QUITTING AGAIN: "There are many exit doors in pro football. Don’t take them."
ON COMMITMENT: "Don’t confuse routine with commitment."
ON FOCUS: "I don’t know what’s going on in the world. And I don’t have time to find out.''
ON LUCK: "Once in a while you're standing at the plate and they hit your bat. You know, you're swinging, but they hit your bat.''
ON LUCK AGAIN: "That's the way the cards went.''
ON PREPARATION: "This is not a game of perfect.''
ON PLAYERS' AGING: "Some guys lose that tread on the tire and they're over there with the other parked cars.''
ON PREPARATION AGAIN: "You gotta be able to take it to the dance.''
ON FRANCHISE MANAGEMENT: "We’re in the business of collecting information. We’re not in the business of exchanging information."
ON MOTIVATION AGAIN: "Don't let your players bite the cheese."
ON EFFORT: "He spilled a lot of blood.''
ON THE NEED TO COMPETE: "As you get older, your needs diminish. They don’t increase. They diminish. I need less money. I need less sex. But this — this doesn’t change."
ON ENDING A CAREER: "What's that Frank Sinatra song? It Was a Very Good Year, this and that.''
ON PASSING INACCURACY: "His girlfriend wasn't winning many teddy bears at the arcade."
ON CHANGING HABITS: "Let's not try to talk a cat down off a fish truck."
ON ERRATIC PLAY: "Ian Baker Finch! Ian Baker Finch won the British Open. Two years later he couldn’t hit a golf ball with a golf club."
ON SUPERVISION: "Even when he doesn’t think I’m watching him, I’m watching him."
ON FAMILIARITY: "It's one of those they know that I know that they know, you know?"
ON BAD TACKLING: "You better order a coffin for Watkins.''
ON FRIENDSHIP: "My whole life I’ve always had some guys. You gotta have some guys. That’s probably one of the fears I have when I get older: that I won’t have any guys."
ON CRITICISM: "They can get the hearses out if they want, but I'm not riding in them yet."
ON FLUKES: "You know, anybody can land a lucky punch.''
ON MOTIVATION: "I got that (baseball bat) because I got a couple of St. Bernards on this team. You know why they’re called St. Bernards? Because I got to hit them with a stick to get ’em to do anything."
ON GUTLESSNESS: "This is the story of our last game. We were Cyclone Hart."
ON BLAME: "Blame nobody, expect nothing, do something."
ON LOSERS: "Losers assemble in little groups and ##### about the coaches and the system and other players in other little groups. Winners assemble as a team."
ON SELF-PITY: "I'm not crying the blues. I'm a big boy!"
ON QUITTING: "Losing may take a little from your credibility, but quitting will destroy it."
ON HIS ANGER: "I can built concern into Mount St. Helen's.''
ON QUITTING AGAIN: "There are many exit doors in pro football. Don’t take them."
ON COMMITMENT: "Don’t confuse routine with commitment."
ON FOCUS: "I don’t know what’s going on in the world. And I don’t have time to find out.''
ON LUCK: "Once in a while you're standing at the plate and they hit your bat. You know, you're swinging, but they hit your bat.''
ON LUCK AGAIN: "That's the way the cards went.''
ON PREPARATION: "This is not a game of perfect.''
ON PLAYERS' AGING: "Some guys lose that tread on the tire and they're over there with the other parked cars.''
ON PREPARATION AGAIN: "You gotta be able to take it to the dance.''
ON FRANCHISE MANAGEMENT: "We’re in the business of collecting information. We’re not in the business of exchanging information."
ON MOTIVATION AGAIN: "Don't let your players bite the cheese."
ON EFFORT: "He spilled a lot of blood.''
ON THE NEED TO COMPETE: "As you get older, your needs diminish. They don’t increase. They diminish. I need less money. I need less sex. But this — this doesn’t change."
