Top 100 Auerbach Quotes
#1. I once heard that Paul Seymour said as much as winning an NBA Championship, he'd like to see the Celtics lose a game after Auerbach brought out the cigar so he could go up to Arnold and stuff the cigar in his face.
Bob Cousy
#2. I think if I met Frank Auerbach or Jeff Koons, I'd be more wobbly than if I met Robert De Niro!
Russell Tovey
#3. The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.
Red Auerbach
#4. Memories extend our lives backward through time, making them feel longer.
Dathan Auerbach
#5. Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.
Dan Auerbach
#7. Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves
Dathan Auerbach
#10. Dude, everybody wants to be Andre 3000. He's got abs for days. How does that guy get so ripped?
Dan Auerbach
#11. What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
Berthold Auerbach
#12. To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
Berthold Auerbach
#13. There are only
two types of composers:
composing composers
and decomposing composers.
Lera Auerbach
#14. Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Red Auerbach
#15. I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.
Frank Auerbach
#16. I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole.
Red Auerbach
#19. And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start a team today, the greatest player and the one guy I would take would be Larry Bird.
Red Auerbach
#20. The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.
Dan Auerbach
#21. People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.
Berthold Auerbach
#22. I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
Dan Auerbach
#23. To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.
Erich Auerbach
#24. To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
Berthold Auerbach
#25. I don't believe in statistics. There are too many factors that can't be measured. You can't measure a ballplayer's heart.
Red Auerbach
#26. Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring - fiercely caring
Red Auerbach
#27. When players are used to winning, they put out a little more. Basketball 3rd winningest coach (regular season and playoffs) in NBA history; won 1,037 times in 20 years;
Red Auerbach
#29. To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
Red Auerbach
#30. A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.
Dan Auerbach
#31. I'm really not worried about what fans think.
Dan Auerbach
#32. I'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.
Dan Auerbach
#33. No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.
Berthold Auerbach
#34. The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
Berthold Auerbach
#35. Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
Dan Auerbach
#36. In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
Berthold Auerbach
#37. I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
Dan Auerbach
#38. Stand up for your players. Show them you care on and off the court.
Red Auerbach
#39. I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
Frank Auerbach
#40. Many, many times, the kids with the less talent become the better athletes because they're more dedicated to achieving their full potential.
Red Auerbach
#41. I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.
Frank Auerbach
#42. A coward is a servant of his fears.
A hero enslaves his fears.
Lera Auerbach
#43. Winners train, losers complain. Give me twelve players that want to win and they will find a way to win.
Red Auerbach
#46. Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup.
Red Auerbach
#47. Players are people, not horses. You don't handle them. You work with them, you coach them, you teach them, and, maybe most important, you listen to them.
Red Auerbach
#49. The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
Red Auerbach
#50. If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.
Frank Auerbach
#51. Apparitions are often confused with hauntings. The difference is that apparitions are "live" (intelligent consciousness) and hauntings are "recordings.
Loyd Auerbach
#52. It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.
Frank Auerbach
#53. Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.
Berthold Auerbach
#54. Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
Dan Auerbach
#55. When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
Berthold Auerbach
#57. The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way ... style.
Frank Auerbach
#58. Austen suggests that a gentleman is made, not born - and made only through a process of painful self-reflection and discovery.
Emily Auerbach
#60. Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
Berthold Auerbach
#61. Faith is belief without proof. Faith is fine, but don't call it science.
Loyd Auerbach
#62. People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
Dan Auerbach
#63. We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
Berthold Auerbach
#64. I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.
Frank Auerbach
#65. You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
Dan Auerbach
#67. Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we've forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and so do we, and what was once important fades away.
Dathan Auerbach
#68. That culture, of looking at catchy music as a negative thing, is weird. It has nothing to do with me, or the music I was into growing up. The Stones and the Beatles only tried to write hits. Every Motown song, every Credence Clearwater song - they were trying to write hits.
Dan Auerbach
#69. Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
Berthold Auerbach
#70. Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
Berthold Auerbach
#71. You don't win games as a coach during games. You win games as a coach before games. Players win during games, not coaches
Red Auerbach
#72. They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best.
Red Auerbach
#74. All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
Berthold Auerbach
#76. The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
Red Auerbach
#78. I've turned down a lot of trades where I might have gotten a better player, but I wasn't totally sure of the chemistry of that new player coming in. Even though he might possess golden ability, his personality and the way he gets along with teammates might be things you just don't want to cope with.
Red Auerbach
#81. Death defines life. I'd rather stay undefined.
Lera Auerbach
#82. It's a bit poetic that it is so easy to take advantage of those who have no advantages to begin with.
Dathan Auerbach
#83. Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Berthold Auerbach
#84. My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.
Dan Auerbach
#85. Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
Berthold Auerbach
#86. Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
Dan Auerbach
#89. I don't think Seurat would have been aware of the dots - he would have been aware of what he was trying to do. The dots were an instrument.
Frank Auerbach
#90. I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
Berthold Auerbach
#91. The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.
Erich Auerbach
#92. The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life.
Red Auerbach
#93. Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Red Auerbach
#94. It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.
Red Auerbach
#96. I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.
Red Auerbach
#97. It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.
Berthold Auerbach
#98. It's not about success. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. I would like to not go bankrupt or get some incurable disease, but other than that, I'm just happy to keep going.
Dan Auerbach
#99. I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
Dan Auerbach
#100. The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
Berthold Auerbach
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