Don Mattingly Quotes

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

No vice is so bad as advice.

Thinking back, the majority of the conflicts I've had in my life have been a result of offering up my two unwelcome cents, crossing that line between constructive truth-telling and preaching.

Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.

Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

I missed a lot of decisions. At the time of making such a decision, there was no doubt in my mind as to its correctness. However, a second or two later I felt that I erred and wished I could change my original ruling.

Usually when you watch a film, you're just sort of biting your nails about things you could have done differently.

It is always awfully easy to say what she would have done after you haven’t done it

It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people.

There are scenarios when I wish I would have made some different choices with the playcall.

I think the jobs [at the top] are unbelievably difficult, and there is nothing easier than second-guessing people.

Back seat drivers don’t know the feel of the wheel but they sho’ know how to make a fuss" Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt, “Let’s Keep It Between Us,” 1982

That ability to see the right choice, but not until several hours have passed since making the wrong one? That's what makes a person a dumbass, folks.

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.

I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've chosen to do.

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

I don't want to make the wrong mistake.

Yes, once—many, many years ago. I thought I had made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I ha been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought I was wrong.

Leadership means that the person in charge gets second guessed by every little twit with a mouth.

Given the opportunity, I might change a choice I made, but you can't regret making what you thought was the best decision at the time.

I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.

We must not allow last year's mistakes to cloud our judgment today.