Wellington Mara Quotations

In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.

The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.

I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.

Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.

The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.

My earliest recollection of the Giants was on a Sunday morning in the autumn of 1925,

I can't help but think he would have been so embarrassed by this. He would have shook his head and tried to hide in a corner somewhere.

Giants ownership has left at least $150 million of team net worth on the table.

We should all share I guess, ... Or we're going to lose some of the smaller teams down the line, and we've all stuck together.

I wanted a football man. Now I'm extremely happy the way it turned out.

Ronnie, why are you so good to me?

Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

It's never needed vindication. It was that fancy stuff that needed to prove itself.

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

The Church, presumably in the person of Cardinal O'Connor, had at one time refused to let the Governor preach in certain churches and school halls.

These days I'm pretty much a businessman.

Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.

I always root for the defense.

I'll tell you what you can expect from an Irishman named Wellington whose father was a bookmaker. You can expect that anything he says or writes may be repeated aloud in your own home in front of your children. You can believe he was taught to love and respect all mankind, but to fear no man.

It's nice to see arrogance humbled.

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.