Switzer Quotes & Sayings

Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man. — Plutarch

None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite. — John Milton

Sweet weeping baby Jesus he has a six-pack to beat all six-packs! — P.C. Cast

The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him. — Barry Switzer

When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations. — Kathrine Switzer

People don't know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it. — Barry Switzer

The interceptions and two fumbles? Those just happened at the wrong time. — Barry Switzer

When I go to the Boston Marathon now, I have wet shoulders - women fall into my arms crying. They're weeping for joy because running has changed their lives. They feel they can do anything. — Kathrine Switzer

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. — Maurice Switzer

Talent is everywhere, it only needs the opportunity. — Kathrine Switzer

There is an expression among even the most advanced runners that getting your shoes on is the hardest part of any workout — Kathrine Switzer

If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage. — Kathrine Switzer

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. — Barry Switzer

Just as women fought for the vote, and that very achievement compels us to the polling stations, so women have fought for the right to exercise and participate in sport, and we cannot throw that away. From the women of ancient Greece putting their lives on the line just by watching sport, and the women in Iran who continue to risk imprisonment today by doing the same, to the likes of Kathrine Switzer who campaigned for women to be allowed to run any distance they liked, or Caster Semenya and Dutee Chand who demand the right to participate in sport as women, without being told what their labia should look like. We — Anna Kessel

Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that — Kathrine Switzer

It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it. — Barry Switzer

I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up. — Sophie Kinsella

There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself. — Maurice Switzer

Some people are born on third base ... — Barry Switzer

If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon. — Kathrine Switzer

I could feel my anger dissipating as the miles went by
you can't run and stay mad! — Kathrine Switzer

This is why the classical of the jazz music station plays?
to give a ground of meaning to our pain? — Adrienne Rich

Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. — Ralph Charell

I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports. — Rene Redzepi

Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. — Sarah J. Maas

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

It never changes. Football is a game of repetition, mental and physical. You may try to articulate it a little different, but it's the same thing: Get better players, make fewer mistakes, and drill the fundamentals into your players' heads. The rest of it is a joke. Teams aren't winning because of what they had for breakfast of what some coach said in the locker room. — Barry Switzer

A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated. — Aristotle.

Life is for participating, not for spectating. — Kathrine Switzer

It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom. — Charles Caleb Colton

We had grown up thinking that a stranger must not even touch us, but that our father, our boyfriend, and our husband could hit us when they liked, out of love, to educate us, to reeducate us. — Elena Ferrante

It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game. — Barry Switzer

There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice. — Eric Hoffer