Phil Niekro Quotes

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

I'm not too worried about that. I am a big believer in modeling.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.

I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing.

I haven't looked to my peers for advice because we're all going through the same thing. How do you ask your friends for advice when they're going through the exact same thing?

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.

They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.

When you're in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt.

Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it.

A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.

It's much easier to work with an unknown.

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.

A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

I'm of the school of thought where, if you can't sort something out for yourself, no one can help you. Rehab is great for some people but not others.

I hate to write Solutions in my books because I don’t really have solutions.

I'm not incapable of going through things.

One should be always ready to face difficult situations and take risk also.

I'm by no means an expert at coaching high school football. I'm doing the best I can in Year 1. But I've already learned a lot of lessons and I imagine I'll keep learning them.