Top 43 Lavell Quotes
#1. Baseball is the only sport there is - next to bowling that is.
Luella Lorraine Lavell
Kate Curran
#2. We weren't going to last, not as a couple. Not as lovers or sinners. She loved me. I owned her.
C.D. Reiss
#3. I was asked this morning if it was frustrating to be 13-1 last year and not have more recognition and I said, "Hey man, I'd take that every year. I'd take that kind of frustration and not worry about it one bit. It wasn't frustration, it was one of those great runs and I enjoyed it."
LaVell Edwards
#4. Edwards said he would like to be remembered for the impact he has had on the lives of his players. In this business we are judged by wins and losses in the media. I don't discount that, but I've never concerned myself much with that ... except that it helps me stay employed.
LaVell Edwards
#5. I just feel that you reach a point when its time to move on.
LaVell Edwards
#6. Where there is hunger, law is not regarded;
and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.
Benjamin Franklin
#8. He will return with a greater understanding of himself, greater leadership capabilities, better work habits, and a better knowledge of what it takes to be successful. It really depends on the young man's desire, commitment, work habits, and how important it is to him when he returns.
LaVell Edwards
#9. I've had a lot of friends in the business that got out earlier than normal. They tell me they got out too early and that I should make sure I've got all I want before I step aside. When I do get out, there are other things that I want to do with my life.
LaVell Edwards
#10. How do we handle adversity? Adversity is going to be with us in everything that we do, almost in every facet of our lives-in our personal associations, in the mission field, in our chosen professions, in our families.
LaVell Edwards
#11. This congestion in the post offices is due to what are technically known as "regulations" but what are really a series of acrostics and anagrams devised by some officials who got around a table one night and tried to be funny.
Robert Benchley
#12. They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets.
LaVell Edwards
#13. I suspect that these traits-desire, commitment, and good work habits-are important in all facets of our lives ...
LaVell Edwards
#14. The main reason for doing it now had more to do with the players. This is a great group. This particular group has really worked hard to prepare themselves. And we have a chance to have a good football team.
LaVell Edwards
#15. What motivates me is not one more championship, it is the challenge each year. I have just thoroughly enjoyed starting in spring with a new team and trying to put all the elements together to make a team.
LaVell Edwards
#16. The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.
Joao Magueijo
#17. Edwards said the greatest moment of his career was winning the national championship. The lowest moment (of my career) happens every time we lose to Utah.
LaVell Edwards
#18. Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.
Jamais Cascio
#19. Everyone But an Idiot Knows That The Lower Classes Must Be Kept Poor, or They Will Never Be Industrious
Arthur Young
#20. Edwards recalled that he once planned to coach until he was 60 as he signed an extension to his contract. I was about 62 before I ever remembered that's what I had set up ... Now I'm already making plans for next year and recruiting. That's the reason for this. I just feel good right now.
LaVell Edwards
#21. I honestly haven't thought about it much. When it comes time for me to retire, I don't think I'll know going into that season. I'll have to evaluate it at the end of each year.
LaVell Edwards
#22. At some point in time it will be right for me to step aside. That may be after this year, but that may be after two or three more years.
LaVell Edwards
#23. Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.
LaVell Edwards
#24. Janice rolled her eyes. First, the doctor had ogled her, and now Karr was leering at her and licking his lips lasciviously.
Oh this is great. I'm being mentally undressed by a space pirate.
William L. Lavell
#25. Currently she was midway through a bittersweet David Nicholls novel that any other time might well have made her self-indulgently reflective.
Freya North
#26. And I want you to know that I have had the greatest support from President Bateman. I could coach as long as I want to and never felt any pressure to reach a decision.
LaVell Edwards
#27. How is your health? I feel pretty good, and I'm very anxious to get the season going. I think we have a chance to have a good football team. I don't have any health problems. I don't know how any of the stuff gets started ... My health is very good.
LaVell Edwards
#28. I told Pattie that last night I dreamt that we had a press conference and nobody showed up. I am overwhelmed that so many of you are here.
LaVell Edwards
#29. Reminiscing, with obvious emotion, on his long career: It's like the size of the crowd here today. It always surprises me. But I do appreciate it.
LaVell Edwards
#30. I learned from watching and I learned form doing.
Claire Bloom
#31. Edwards commented as he signed an extension to his contract. They had changed coaches every three or four years before my getting the head job. It was just going to be a matter of when I got fired. There were a lot of people that felt that.
LaVell Edwards
#32. Those who have succeeded have also had the ability to overcome adversity, disappointment, and even tragedy in their lives.
LaVell Edwards
#33. There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.
Vaclav Havel
#34. I am Captain Dakkan. I am in charge of this facility."
"Captain Dakkan," Ryan repeated. "It's good to meet you. I've heard ... well ... nothing about you ...
William L. Lavell
#35. [On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.
Barbara Neely
#36. This is to the world and how god damn beautiful it is.
Andrew McMahon
#37. Black Ponies and Darkhorse worked so much together that they would often bypass normal channels and talk directly with one another. As in this case, dealing directly saved time.
Kit Lavell
#38. See, wrong guys think they're good. Evil guys don't think at all. They're just evil. And kind of lame. So whick are you?
Robin Wasserman
#40. When I started I knew it was a matter of when, not if, I would get fired. That's because that was just the past history of the previous coaches that had been there.
LaVell Edwards
#41. I can honestly say that two weeks after the national championship year, I'd forgotten about it and started laying the groundwork for spring practice. And so every year, that's been the thing that's motivated me ...
LaVell Edwards
#42. After the Cougars' 19-15 Cotton Bowl victory over Kansas State We're the only team in NCAA history to win 14 games in a season. It was just a great experience and I can't say enough about it ... People don't know how difficult it is to get up for 15 games.
LaVell Edwards
#43. I'd rather lose and live in Provo than win and live in Laramie
LaVell Edwards
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