Top 100 Marv Quotes
#1. Are you any relation to your brother Marv?
Leon Wood
#2. Happiness made Marv anxious because he knew it didn't last. But happiness destroyed was worth wrapping your arms around because it always hugged you back.
Dennis Lehane
#3. Nancy's got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv.
Frank Miller
#4. How's yours?" inquires Marv soon after. "Or more to the point, what is it?"
"Eggs and cheese and something."
"Do you even like eggs?"
"No."
"Then why'd you get it?"
"Well, it didn't look like eggs when it was on that other guy's plate."
"Fair enough. You want some of mine?
Markus Zusak
#5. Marvelous Marv was holding down first base. This is like saying Willie Sutton works at your bank.
Jimmy Breslin
#6. Marv's a guy you've got to be careful around. He doesn't mean any harm, but he causes plenty.
Frank Miller
#7. I wanted to be Marv Albert or Bob Costas. Those were my favorites growing up. Still are!
Dave Pasch
#8. Growing up knowing that I wanted to be a sportscaster and knowing that the best school in the country was right in my back yard, I certainly knew all there was to know about Marty Glickman and about people like Bob Costas and Marv Albert and all of the other greats that have passed through there.
Beth Mowins
#9. Marv stared at his phone. Kids these days. It was like on that day in school when they taught personal responsibility, this entire fucking generation had banged in sick.
Dennis Lehane
#10. I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager.
Marv Albert
#11. The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.
Marv Levy
#12. If there's age discrimination - and there may be - I've always felt that the person who discriminates is hurt more than the person being discriminated against, if the second person shucks it off and moves forward.
Marv Levy
#13. If you believe you are doing a good job in which you enjoy and like, then don't resign regardless of the pressures.
Marv Levy
#14. A good education prepares you well for anything.
Marv Levy
#15. When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.
Marv Levy
#16. I've always been entranced by writing.
Marv Levy
#17. I exercise, walk a lot, and break into the occasional trot. I also lift weights three days a week, and I like to read about what makes a good diet. Overall, I do follow a healthy lifestyle.
Marv Levy
#18. When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
Marv Levy
#19. When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us.
Marv Levy
#20. What it takes to win is simple, it's not easy.
Marv Levy
#21. She smells like angels ought to smell, the perfect woman ... the Goddess. Goldie. She says her name is Goldie.
Frank Miller
#22. What you do should speak so loudly that no one will hear what you say.
Marv Levy
#23. I know that you are a mere flea! I know that you need only be squashed to be done away with! I know that I have fought this same battle a thousand thousand times before ... but, perhaps this time I can crush you like the insect you are!
Marv Wolfman
#24. I have stayed active. I do keep moving. But I should start swimming more. Great exercise.
Marv Levy
#25. In my mind, continuity means the best writer at a company is held hostage by the worst.
Marv Wolfman
#26. I'm sure there were concussions galore back when we played, but the doctors would just say, 'Shake it off,' or something like that ... or 'Come on, you got to be tough ... get back in there.' I see so many guys who played pro football in their 50s now who are so debilitated from having played it.
Marv Levy
#27. I consider myself a Chicagoan, and if anybody else does, that gratifies me.
Marv Levy
#28. Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football. Free agency has now allowed teams to be a dynasty as they have been before. It is not a great thing for the fans, but it is a good thing for the players.
Marv Levy
#29. Systems don't win, players do.
Marv Levy
#30. I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.
Marv Levy
#31. Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT.
Marv Albert
#32. A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you.
Marv Levy
#33. Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst.
Marv Wolfman
#34. I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.
Marv Levy
#35. Superior athletes want to be accountable for their own results. -
Marv Dunphy
#36. Flag: What are you really up to?
Waller: You want the big picture?
Flag: No, I like being fed a steady stream of crap and kept in the dark like a mushroom.
Marv Wolfman
#37. I got some very good advice once. That was: You're not talking to a reporter, you're talking to the public. We didn't hide things. They are a little more guarded now.
Marv Levy
#38. To me, doing the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona for NBC, just seeing the Dream Team take the floor, was a thrill for me. I don't think there was another team in any sport with that high level of athletes playing together.
Marv Albert
#39. If you start thinking of the Super Bowl championship as your motivation, you are going to miss the trees for the forest or the forest for the trees. I never could understand that one.
Marv Levy
#40. There will be many failures sprinkled among the successes you enjoy.
Marv Levy
#41. If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.
Marv Levy
#42. Did I ever think at the time, when I was with the Alouettes and the Chicago Blitz, that I would be head-coaching a team in the Super Bowl? It would be hard to believe. Is it a dream come true? Yes.
Marv Levy
#43. It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.
Marv Albert
#44. I would never scream at my kids, never raise my voice. But as they often tell me, they were so well behaved that screaming was not necessary.
Marv Albert
#45. If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.
Marv Levy
#46. Our goal is to develop our team, to earn what we get, to learn, to develop unselfish attitudes. If we achieve that, the results is that we'll win.
Marv Levy
#47. Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.
Marv Levy
#48. I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.
Marv Levy
#49. I don't remember Bill Walsh being old. I remember young Bill Walsh. He wasn't gray-haired, and neither was I when we first met. His legacy will live on. Bill Walsh's name and his accomplishments will be remembered and revered so long as the great game of football is played.
Marv Levy
#51. Game calls can't be just, 'Oh, by the way,' as part of a larger discussion.
Marv Albert
#52. I never have suspected or sensed a whiff of cheating in any of our Super Bowls.
Marv Levy
#53. I don't know if there ever has been anyone in the NFL who plays his position as well as Steve Tasker.
Marv Levy
#54. All the buildup and hype, everything else, is foam. The game is the beer.
Marv Levy
#55. There are people in New York who feel I should have more of a hometown approach. I feel we have to be a mirror and reflect what's happening on the court.
Marv Albert
#56. My father was an athlete, a great athlete, fought in the Marines in World War I. He was all sports and activity. My mother was all academics. I still have the complete works of Shakespeare that she had.
Marv Levy
#57. I know. Being evil is great. Who else besides super-villains and fortune five hundred companies can get away with not paying taxes?
Marv Wolfman
#58. Adversity is an opportunity for heroism.
Marv Levy
#59. Teaching is very important. The nature of your personality isn't that important. Lombardi was very extraverted, very bombastic. Landry very quiet, reserved. Both were great teachers and great coaches.
Marv Levy
#60. (after Monster T shot himself)
"Smart guy," Joker said, and he laughed. "Lotta brains.
Marv Wolfman
#62. I am going to miss Don Shula. I like him, and I admire him. I'm going to miss looking those 53 yards across the field and thinking, 'There is a coaching legend.'
Marv Levy
#63. As a collegiate, I think you spend 50 percent of your time recruiting. It is a distasteful process.
Marv Levy
#64. Chronological age is only an approximation of your functional age.
Marv Levy
#65. In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers.
Marv Albert
#66. Volleyball is one of the most interactive games going. It is a game of intuition, imagination, improvisation - but most of all, of reciprocity - of teamwork. There is no way to free-lance in volleyball.
Marv Dunphy
#67. My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.
Marv Albert
#68. As much as I enjoy TV, I've always loved radio. And I love doing the NFL games, the Monday night games, on radio. Because you are the game. I really enjoyed calling basketball and hockey on the radio, but the presentation is more specific - you're talking all the time.
Marv Albert
#69. Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.
Marv Levy
#70. You adhere to a philosophy, but part of the philosophy I have is that I don't want to be too doggone inflexible that I miss a good player.
Marv Levy
#71. If Justin Beiber was 7 feet tall, he'd look like [Meyers Leonard] that.
Marv Albert
#72. Buildings had collapsed-once tall and mighty, now headstones for the thousands buried underneath.
Marv Wolfman
#73. Bill Polian and I agreed when we first came together with the Buffalo Bills that we'd bring players only of high character to the team.
Marv Levy
#74. As coaches, we learn to accept criticism for our decisions. If a writer says you shouldn't have gone for it on fourth-and-one, we understand that's part of the job. We expect it.
Marv Levy
#75. Plan your work and work your plan.
Marv Levy
#76. Judenhass is endlessly disturbing, often unpleasant and incessantly horrifying in its stark coldness. The quotes should never be forgotten or made light of. It is why all people of good will say, 'Never again.'
Marv Wolfman
#77. Players know how to dribble, shoot and pass. The challenge is to teach them why they should do it a certain way, and when they should do it.
Marv Harshman
#78. I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.
Marv Levy
#79. There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.
Marv Levy
#80. I'm about 75 pages into a book on poetry. I don't know if anybody wants to read it. It's on any broad variety of subjects. I walk down the street and think of a topic and jot it down and say, 'Okay, that's another one.' They go from the humorous to the serious to every topic imaginable.
Marv Levy
#81. This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)
Marv Levy
#82. If I had coached in high school for 60 years, I would have loved it. Getting to the top was not a goal. I welcomed the opportunities, but I just believed do the best doggone job you can, and good things will happen.
Marv Levy
#83. I just want people to finish the book and say, 'I was entertained.' When I set out to do it, I had no deal in place. I knew it would be tough. I read somewhere that John Steinbeck was turned down 22 times on his first novel. But I was just going to do it.
Marv Levy
#84. Expect rejection, but expect even more strongly to overcome it.
Marv Levy
#85. You're looking...good enough to eat. Figuratively speaking, I'm strictly vegan.
Marv Wolfman
#86. Actually, I'm working on a book of poetry.
Marv Levy
#87. My father Sam, by his lifelong example, displayed for me the virtues of an honest day's work and of great personal courage.
Marv Levy
#88. Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.
Marv Levy
#89. Where else would you rather be than right here, right now?
Marv Levy
#90. Sure education is valuable in any respect regardless of what field you are in.
Marv Levy
#92. Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.
Marv Levy
#94. Three, maybe four times a week, I run for 30 minutes. If I don't run, I'm out for a brisk walk at least an hour every day.
Marv Levy
#95. Buddy, I don't mean to poke my nose in where it don't belong, but that there is a dame to kill for. Why'd you let her go?
Frank Miller
#96. My strong game was ping pong. Relentless ... steady.
Marv Albert
#97. Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.
Marv Levy
#98. In radio, you are the game, so to speak - you have to describe every aspect. In TV, I've always felt less is more, and it's really a question of my setting up the color analyst more than anything else.
Marv Albert
#99. With villains you always have to understand what motivates them. Most people don't just think they're evil. They believe or know they are doing the right thing because of the circumstances they find themselves in. Or they are overwhelmed by circumstances and can't stop what they'll do next.
Marv Wolfman
#100. It is not how tall you are, it is how GOOD you are.
Marv Dunphy
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