Dizzy Dean Quotes

You can't teach court savvy

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

You can't second-guess baseball. You can't second-guess yourself.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

You don't have to be a mathematician to have a feel for numbers.

My instinct is probably one of the strongest assets I've got, workwise.

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Man is a recording animal.

I'm not accomplished enough to over-analyze something, because I don't have the background as far as people who write and know how to break down a character or story and stuff. I mostly go by gut instincts.

Most good players play on intuition. Everyone has a little, but I don't know if you can learn it.

You can be taught so much, but the sense of anticipation cannot be taught.

I go with what I know and what I see, and I believe in reality.

Every GM will tell you it's an instinct. It's an instinct to be patient, to react, or act, or not to do anything at all. It just comes. What I can say is you must have a plan and a goal and a way to do things. At the end of the day, it's an instinct. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's bad.

You don't forget how to coach.

When I was 16, I didn't really know what intuition was as a word, even. It's one of those things you experience, but you don't really know what it is.

There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.

Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

Sometimes I need to look at the scoreboard to figure out whether I'm batting hundred-plus or whether I am on zero.

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living.