Whitey Ford Quotations

The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan.

You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.

Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around.

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.

We'll try anything at this point. We've been close on the road. We've not played that bad. We've just run into some better teams than us. We have to start really trying to look at motivating our guys a little differently on the road. Hopefully, it will come.

We're really not that good. We're overachieving here and there. But the future looks bright.

Fifteen minutes (at halftime) wasn't enough time to cover all the things we needed to cover. It wasn't screaming and yelling. It was more pleading.

Twenty-nine turnovers didn't help us at all. Shooting 1-for-9 in 3-pointers in the first half didn't help us. But, man, they're a scrappy basketball team. They play in those spurts and that's what makes them good. They can afford not to play well in 2- or 3-minute spans. We can't. We're not good enough of a basketball team to do that.

You have to gain some confidence on the road to get over it. We've just had to play some very, very tough teams.

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You never forget games like that. When you lose like that, you always remember it. We know they're going to be ready for us. Temple's a great basketball team, and they're coming off of two huge wins, so we know they're going to be prepared.

They were killing us on the glass. They got to lose balls quicker than we did. We were standing around and watching. We have so far to go as a basketball team; I'm done with this game. I'm more concerned with where our team is headed.

They played like a team that had their back against the wall and they came out ready to play. We did not. They played great and we played terrible.

They had to play really, really well and they did because we played one of our better games lately. When you're going against a team that's better than you, playing a great game in their home gym, you're probably not going to come out on the winning side.

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I know theyll get better training, ... Im proud of what they are doing.

In order for us to stay in the game, we had to figure out how to slow them down. The first thought was defensive transition. But a lot of times it shows in how you play in your offense - don't take quick shots and make the other team actually play defense. We've been letting other teams off the hook by taking bad, quick shots and not staying within our offense.

I don't think there's any question Temple will be in the NCAA Tournament.

The first thing he said was no question you can do the job. But would you like living there?