Abe Lemons Quotes

If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be.

There are times when you throw an interception and you're beating yourself up.

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

If the shortstop makes an error, I am responsible. I let the batter hit the ball.

A winning model would mean trying to get the best possible players that you can, at whatever age they are; it doesn't matter.

A lot of the mistakes I made were my fault.

I'm conscious of my turnovers.

I can't even get people to spell my name right in my own biography!

No one means to drop catches. Everyone has done it.

My job is to bring in players I think can help this team, regardless of where they're playing.

I'm not naive. It's football. You're going to make mistakes.

People make mistakes in life and in football all the time.

At the end of the day, we're goalkeepers, and we live with making mistakes. We learn from a young age that you can make a mistake at any point.

In football, everyone can make mistakes.

You always want all good players at your team.

Error is always talkative.

Error is ever talkative.

I made the mistakes not because I'm tired.

And truly it is a very natural and ordinary thing to desire to acquire, and always, when men do it who can, they will be praised or not blamed; but when they cannot, and wish to do it anyway, here lies the error and the blame.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.

The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.

Only the mistakes were mine.

You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes