Barry Switzer Sayings

#1. The world needs ditch diggers, too.

Ted Knight

#2. Gossip has always been a problem. It is one of the most powerful, addictive behaviors there is. As long as the human race has had a common language they have used it to gossip.

John Patrick Hickey

#3. What you don't know is the people around you have their own pain and insecurities and they also want to be normal, so they are happy to treat you like glass because if there isn't any one around to pity, it gives them more time to think about what's wrong in their own lives.

Inger Iversen

#4. Some people are born on third base ...

Barry Switzer

#5. It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.

Barry Switzer

#6. The only way I'd ever recruit a white quarterback to play for me is if his mom and daddy would both have to be black, and that's the only way I would do it.

Barry Switzer

#7. Whatever one does cheerfully is good for health.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. A man's weaknesses may intrude on his faith but they do not diminish it.

Robert Ludlum

#9. The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him.

Barry Switzer

#10. Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Barry Switzer

#11. Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind; and the same freedom of intercourse which extended the vices, diffused likewise the improvements of social life.

Edward Gibbon

#12. All I know, boy, is that life is, on occasion, entirely too vast for my tastes.

Patrick DeWitt

#13. Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.

Epictetus

#14. It was like hearing customs from an undiscoverd race: what men thought was unimaginable....She wondered if all human activity were like this, everything, every gesture, every comment colored faintly by gender. Each side continually astonished, confused by the other's misperceptions. p 133

Roxana Robinson

#15. People don't know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it.

Barry Switzer

#16. The interceptions and two fumbles? Those just happened at the wrong time.

Barry Switzer

#17. I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.

Khalil Gibran

#18. It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.

Barry Switzer