Abe Lemons Quotes & Sayings

#1. You mean in the state?

#2. One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

#3. We did have three go to the YMCA.

#4. Coaches who shoot par in the summer are the guys I want on my schedule in the winter.

#5. You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

#6. I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

#7. I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players.

#8. They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.

#9. It was a hole in one contest and I had a three.

#10. You always catch the wrong players.

#11. The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

#12. I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.

#13. There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.

#14. Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

#15. I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?

#16. Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.

#17. Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.

#18. If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules.'

#19. Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

#20. You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

Abe Lemons Quotes