Lefty Gomez Quotes

I have never willingly chased a ball.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

Sometimes inaction is worse than action.

The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.

It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

Not to decide is to decide.

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

As far as innovation goes, I can tell you that Korean students are reluctant to step out of line. If I ask questions, nobody raises their hands - not because they don't know the answers, but because they don't want to step out of line.

The most fatal of all neutralities is that which results not from choice, but from irresolution.

We are so in fear of failure that often we prefer not to try..

There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.

If I have to run, I'll do it, but I'd rather just sit back and pass it.

I wasn't always a willing passer.

People don't wanna take a chance. And I just feel like that's what it was, it's like that in every single level I've been in, from little league to high school and college.

I'd rather look a fool than be right and fail to act.

As I was in the air, the ball took a bad hop and caromed behind me, but I was able to catch it with my bare hand. I hit the ground, bounced back up, and threw Burroughs out at first.

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

There are always twenty excellent reasons for doing nothing for every one reason for starting anything-especially if it has never been done before.

Mouth guard. And I think we'll start you in goal." Goal sounded like a special job. I didn't want a special job, unless that special job involved sitting on the side under a pile of blankets.

Fear has made them sloppy. The world teeters at a precipe. All scared to take a step in case they put a foot into empty air. The instinct of self-preservation. It can destroy a man's efficiency.

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.