Top 100 Ernie's Quotes
#1. Ernie's past friendship. Your debt is to the living.
Jack Schaefer
#2. Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
Ernie Harwell
#3. It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!
Ernie Banks
#4. Just one great idea can change your life dramatically. Look for it. It's there somewhere!
Ernie J Zelinski
#5. It's a beautiful day for a ballgame - let's play two!
Ernie Banks
#6. Spin is a tricky thing. When you're trying to avoid it - say, on a tee shot, where sidespin puts you in the trees - it's easy to make it happen.
Ernie Els
#7. First Lady Michelle Obama appears on 'Sesame Street' to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary. It's going to be a big episode. Yes, sources say the episode gets a little tense when Ernie and Bert ask the first lady why her husband's dragging his feet on gay marriage.
Conan O'Brien
#8. What does it say about your character if you do bad things while claiming it's all in the name of good?
Ernie Lindsey
#9. Contours on the second half of a long putt have more impact on how the ball rolls because it's going slower. Adjust your speed if that last part is playing uphill or downhill. Don't get fooled by an early slope or break.
Ernie Els
#10. There's so much more to life than golf. Family is always first.
Ernie Els
#11. Michelle is 14. Give her a couple of years to get stronger. I mean, she can play on this tour. If she keeps working, keeps doing the right things, there's no reason why she shouldn't be out here.
Ernie Els
#12. If you look at the record books, Dale Earnhardt's done everything, except win the Daytona 500. Now they can't have that riding over him. Now they're just going to say, 'Dale Earnhardt, 1998 Daytona 500 winner,' and his shoulders are going to get lighter every time.
Ernie Irvan
#13. One of my tendencies is to let the ball drift too far forward in my stance, and it's something I've been working on with David Leadbetter.
Ernie Els
#14. I have a cousin Ernie who buys stuff. He's got a big snowblower that's actually the biggest snowblower you can buy, with a remote control, so he doesn't even have to go outside. He's got the microwave and a satellite dish, it's all in one. He cooks and watches at the same time.
Louie Anderson
#15. Obviously my game wasn't too good at Augusta, I had a couple of technical faults, the posture wasn't too good. It's a bit unfortunate because I was playing a lot of good golf, but when I got sick (flu) before The Masters, that was bad timing and I wasn't quite myself.
Ernie Els
#16. But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?
Ernie Hudson
#17. The fulfilling of who you are and your purpose for being here is not found outside, it's trusting God to move you, to inspire you ...
Ernie Hudson
#18. When I'm swinging the club at my best, it's because I'm not thinking about mechanics at all. I feel like my body is loose. My arms are soft in front of me when I'm setting up, and my chest and shoulders feel as if they can move and turn easily.
Ernie Els
#19. For a 7-iron, you never want the ball to be closer to your left heel than just slightly ahead of the mid-point of your stance. That's especially true if you're a tall player, like me.
Ernie Els
#20. Some players like to change clubs around the green to hit high or low shots. I play all of my short-game shots with my 54-degree sand wedge and change my ball position to hit it higher or lower. I think it's easier to learn one club than four.
Ernie Els
#21. Everybody we meet has an influence on us and an impact - good or bad. And I think that's why we have to be careful with the way we handle people because what we're doing is making an impact.
Ernie Harwell
#22. I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.
Ernie Banks
#23. The best thing anyone can do is be himself. Everyone was made different by God, and that's the way it should be. And if I were a writer or an announcer starting out, I don't think I'd imitate anybody. I'd try to be whatever I am.
Ernie Harwell
#24. In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.
Ernie Harwell
#25. I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'
Ernest Cline
#26. Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'
Ernie Harwell
#27. I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.
Ernie Harwell
#28. You go down to Skid Row and you see literally hundreds of people and not just men, but women and children as well. It's really a tragedy that our society has come to that.
Ernie Hudson
#29. If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.
Ernie Hudson
#30. A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
Ernie Harwell
#31. That's a real void in my life. I see a lot of people who struggled and went to jail and the dogs were after them. I'd look them in the eyes and say, 'God almighty, I wish I'd have been there.'
Ernie Banks
#32. I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business.
Ernie Fletcher
#33. I'll be glad to leave here. I feel like eating palm trees. I don't like this place. It's for people with arthritis. They come here to play golf and to die.
Ernie Holmes
#34. I plot the par 5s back from the green and make my plan. If I can reach the green in two shots, I'm going to be aggressive off the tee. But if 's a three-shot hole, the goal changes. You want to put yourself in position to hit your favorite shot to the green.
Ernie Els
#35. There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.
Ernie Kovacs
#36. Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.
Ernie Kovacs
#37. I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto.
Ernie Harwell
#38. If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.
Ernie Harwell
#39. C'mon, Mary. You've seen enough of the nasty side of human nature to know that it's not always that easy. Some people take shit, some people give it."
Ernie Lindsey
#40. The game's the thing. That's why people tune in. They don't tune in to hear an announcer.
Ernie Harwell
#41. I've been to Vulcan where I've been vulcanized, Carbon where you get carbonated and Standard where you get standardized. Ernie Isley's invited me to Castor ... and I'm not looking forward to it.
Ralph Klein
#42. I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.
Ernie Pyle
#43. Ernie got it,' I said afterwards. 'His experience taught him that you've got to fight for what's right. It gets you into a lot of trouble but he came to the same conclusion as me.' People think it could never happen here. Don't you believe it; it doesn't take much.
Denis Avey
#44. The measure of a man is in the lives he's touched.
Ernie Banks
#45. It's no surprise to me or the other Isley brothers that I can sing, because I used to sing all the time in practice. The surprise is that somebody else likes it.
Ernie Isley
#46. I decided very early that I was going to be
a reporter, that I would not cheer for the
team. I don't denigrate people who do it.
It's fine.
Ernie Harwell
#47. Your prosperity and happiness will ultimately be determined by the enrichment you create for others in this world. If whatever you are doing does not enrich your life, or that of others, then it's time to do something else.
Ernie J Zelinski
#48. It was my mom who told me, "Ernie, if you make even one person happy with your smile or a funny thing you did every day, you'll have accomplished a great deal." And that's all I've ever tried to do.
Ernest Borgnine
#50. Ernie thought - what's the expression? - that he had a couple of kangaroos loose in the top paddock.
Louis Nowra
#51. Don't believe you have to travel far and wide to discover opportunities. The best opportunities will always be found in your own back yard, and not half way around the world in someone else's backyard. You have to look for them, however.
Ernie J Zelinski
#52. Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.
Ernie J Zelinski
#53. There's Insanity on Both Sides of the Debate When You Argue with an Idiot.
Ernie J Zelinski
#54. According to the book Celebrate Today, June 18th is National Splurge Day. Besides being the birthday of Paul McCartney and Isabella Rossellini, it's also mine. Go ahead; celebrate my birthday and don't worry about the cost!
Ernie J Zelinski
#55. What I get from my study of the Bible is that we're all in Christ, that we're all the same in God's eyes.
Ernie Hudson
#56. Anything can happen. That's the beauty of creating.
Ernie Harwell
#57. She's either the house mom or the drill sergeant that you eventually like and respect, even after he's removed his size eleven boot from your ass.
Ernie Lindsey
#58. The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.
Ernie Pyle
#59. Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
Ernie Pyle
#60. Take Ernie Els. He plays in every country. You see his name everywhere. He's received in different parts of the world. It's a good experience.
Peter Uihlein
#62. Never economize on the small luxuries of life. Drinking fine wine and eating chocolate won't solve your problems - but they won't hurt either.
Ernie J Zelinski
#63. Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.
Ernie J Zelinski
#64. What celebrities hope is that people identify not so much that they're particularly special or different, but they identify with them. We represent life in general, the guy who does whatever.
Ernie Hudson
#65. Unless it's a dead-straight short putt, you should focus on a spot somewhere along the line you want to roll the ball on.
Ernie Els
#66. Yeah Ernie, its called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.
Charles Barkley
#67. Make a conscious effort to loosen your hands and let your arms feel soft when you're at address. Take the club back a bit shorter, and feel as if you're cracking a whip on the way down - not tensing up to smash something hard.
Ernie Els
#68. Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.
Ernie J Zelinski
#69. I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.
Charles Barkley
#70. I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.
John Petrucci
#71. What happens with any announcer when he comes into an area, if he stays four or five years and does a fairly decent job, people accept him and he becomes part of the family.
Ernie Harwell
#72. With shorter clubs, your ball position should be just back of middle, to really promote hitting the ball first on a downward strike.
Ernie Els
#73. Needless to say, I have more no-hitters than Nolan Ryan.
Ernie Harwell
#74. When I think back, I get mad at what they did to those poor men. Ernie must have had PTSD - they called it shell shock - and the doctors told him to keep it all bottled up inside. They didn't know any better, but it was like treating syphilis with candy bars.
Anita Diamant
#75. When you need something tedious done, and don't have time for it, give it to a workaholic. This way, both of you will be happy.
Ernie J Zelinski
#76. Excessive drinking is not good for my health, my family or my game. There has definitely been a change, and I feel better for it.
Ernie Els
#77. It's interesting and somewhat dismaying how many people will look up to anyone who wins a multimillion-dollar lottery - but will deride anyone who has worked either hard or smart to attain prosperity and real success.
Ernie J Zelinski
#78. I know that Jesus is in charge; he's walking with me.
Ernie Harwell
#79. I use a 1994 South African 5 rand coin to mark my ball. It reminds me of my '94 U.S. Open win at Oakmont.
Ernie Els
#80. I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.
Ernie Harwell
#81. It's alright to have a good opinion of yourself, but we Americans are so smug with our cockiness, we somehow feel that just because we are Americans, we can whip our weight in wildcats.
Ernie Pyle
#82. Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.
Ernie Harwell
#83. I think it's important to find the joy in your work and the things that sort of renew that.
Ernie Hudson
#84. I knew that everybody could be replaced. Nobody lasts forever. And if you work for somebody, he's certainly got the privilege and the right to fire you.
Ernie Harwell
#85. You check into the hotel and see you're booked for seven nights. But you know you might be leaving in a day or two. It's exciting for the fans. But you're on edge. And you're on edge the whole round.
Ernie Els
#86. Put money in it's place. Money can buy you cars, houses, trinkets, fleeting sex, shallow companionship, cheap attention, and unfulfilled status. However, it can't buy you peace, love, or happiness.
Ernie J Zelinski
#87. 'Golf Digest' had all the old school swings, and my favorite swing, ever, was Nick Faldo's swing. And it had all the greats, Ernie Els and Nick Faldo and all that stuff, and I had the pictures of their swing sequences on my wall.
Jason Day
#88. It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.
Ernie Banks
#89. It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.
Ernie Harwell
#90. Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.
Ernie Fletcher
#92. Instead of Criticizing Someone's Success, Why Not Learn Something Valuable from It?
Ernie J Zelinski
#93. There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That's baseball.
Ernie Harwell
#94. Dale Earnhardt's opinion in the garage area is like God's to us.
Ernie Irvan
#95. It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned.
Ernie Hudson
#96. Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.
Ernie J Zelinski
#97. Besides," said Teatime, "if you've been coerced, it's not your fault, is it? No one can blame you. No one could blame anyone who'd been coerced at knife point."
"Oh, well, I s'pose, if we're talking coerced ... " Ernie muttered. Going along with things seemed to be the only way.
Terry Pratchett
#98. My uncle Ernie didn't believe in God.
At least that's what he said. But he always
Went to church on Christmas. Which I thought
Seriously compromised his atheism.
Eugene H. Peterson
#99. Imagination allows you to think of the journey worth making. Motivation gets you started. But, it's patience and perseverance that get you there.
Ernie J Zelinski
#100. We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.
Tennessee Ernie Ford
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