Lefty Gomez Quotes

If you attempt certain things at the right time, they are easy to accomplish - in fact, they almost get done by themselves. If you undertake them before the time is right, not only will they fail, but they will often become impossible to accomplish even when the time would have been right.

The one who punches doesn't win. The one who dodges punches wins.

There's not a single strike that good preparation can't negate.

If we didn't do the tour, it would have been disastrous.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Never wait for trouble.

It's about getting in position and taking a swing. I don't care if you're taking steroids or not; if you don't do those two things, it's not going to matter anyway.

He that fears danger in time seldom feels it.

Hope is not a strategy.

It's better to have security and not need it than need it and not have it.

Sometimes you have to shield, and sometimes you have to press.

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

You have to defend properly.

There are so many different things that create an alchemy of success. Just like there are so many different things that create an alchemy of a failure.

When something bad happens, you're bound to be doubly careful.

Defense comes with defensive concepts.

You have more control of things if you play defense. And you can control how you play defense, too, with effort and preparation.

If they don't score, we can't lose.

Defense is something I take a lot of pride in.

I move my head. I don't get hit.

You need to be able to defend. It's massively important, and at Arsenal, we've sometimes been guilty of forgetting that.

Who does not talk cannot be judged. Who does not shoot the penalty cannot miss.

You only miss many chances when you create many chances.

I don't want to blow my own trumpet but the aim of the game is to hit and not get hit and that is what I am doing.