Joe Posnanski Quotes

Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.

The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

I sometimes let people down, especially when I was younger. I was cavalier about what people told me. Part of growing up is learning when to shut up.

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'

Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.

Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

When you are responsible for telling the truth, you must take the time to find out what the truth is…. To find out the truth takes weeks. It takes only 5 minutes for a wrong message to travel around the entire globe.

When you make a mistake—a big mistake, you’re going to have to apologize—a lot!

If one doesn't know his mistakes, he won't want to correct them.

We follow the rules and some guys make some mistakes and we gotta correct those mistakes. We follow the rules and we do it the right way at Florida and we have to do a better job of correcting some of the people making mistakes.

People make mistakes along the way. Cricket means I may not always be there for everyone all the time. But when I take the field for my country, I know there are a lot of people I am representing.

There are a lot of things I would take back, off the field, to be a franchise guy.

We do have our mistakes sometimes, like 'The New York Times' does, like everything does. We correct them.

It's part of football to accept your responsibility.

When there's a pattern of mistakes, something has got to change.

the point of educating instead of blaming seems to me very important. For nothing stultifies one more than being blamed. Moreover, if the question is, who is to blame?, perhaps each will want to place the blame on someone else, or on the other hand, someone may try to shield his fellow-worker. In either case the attempt is to hide the error and if this is done the error cannot be corrected.

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

I can't say I'm never going to mess up, but if I do, I'll definitely be very sorry.