Best One-Liner Advice You've Ever Received

My high school coach - Bob Nadal.

He said "Just shut up - and play"

Best advice I ever got IMO.

Coach's advice when asked how to hit the curve ball:
"Hit the fastball that comes before they throw the curve."

#1. Do you want to chew Beachnut, or go to the Beach!

#2. Enjoy the day off, but don't be getting
the Malibu Flu.

#3. If your gonna dance, ya gotta pay the fidler!

#4. That bomb could have hit one of the stewardesses

#5. Wanna carrot?

#6. Ok pitcher, it's 3-2, bases loaded, just get it near the plate, our catcher is going to gas him!

Interesting question.

My favorite is from Ted Williams who was the greatest hitter of all time imho. The guy he learned from was Rogers Hornsby. He said the best advice he ever got from Hornsby was to "Find a good pitch to hit." Seems overly simple, but makes alot of sense if you can lay off stuff you shouldn't be swinging at.

From a couple of former Minnesota Twins:

Gary Gaetti remembers a piece of advice his father once gave him:
"Swing hard, in case you hit it."

And I can't remember or find the exact quote from manager Tom Kelly, but it was something like this: upon being asked the best pitch his pitcher throws:
"Strike one."

Best advice I ever received and passed to my kids, regarding errors:

You can't fix it, you can't change it, learn from it and go on to the next one.

One of my favorites: "It's a simple game. See ball, catch ball, throw. See ball, hit ball, run."

I had a coach along time ago who used to tell me "you know you really have deceptive ability ..... you're actually worse than you look".

My HS coach told me "If you want to become a better hitter you should hit more."

Great advice...now if he just had taught me anything about hitting it really would have helped

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Originally posted by ClevelandDad:
My favorite is from Ted Williams who was the greatest hitter of all time imho. The guy he learned from was Rogers Hornsby. He said the best advice he ever got from Hornsby was to "Find a good pitch to hit."

Having been in the locker room (DC Stadium) in the 60's, the funniest of lines from Mr. Williams was when asked by a reporter who he'd like to be [if he was not managing the Senators]
answ: "I'd like to be like Larry Dolby!"

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cheers
Bear

I remember once a player came in and complained about the condition of the field as a ball took as he said a "bad" hop. Coach said Anybody can catch the good hops good players catch the bad ones.

Same coach A kid said the word if before something to which the coach replied if the queen had *&^%^& she would be the king.

An excuse is like your *&^&*()_*& everybody has one and they all stink.

can't say it was good advice but it was funny "sons hs coach if i tell you a chicken dips snuff you better check under his wing for a snuff box"

when i was in LL.a mom came to practice and wanted to know why her son didn't play.the coach says "my son wants to be in the band,but he can't play an instrument".the mom says then why does he want to be in the band?coach says"exactly my point why does your son want to play baseball"?
one other kid says coach my arm hurts.as it always did after he gave up 4 runs.coach says you ain't throwin hard enough to hurt your arm.
things were different in those days.

Our oldest son said Mike Matheney told him to...

"Play for an audience of One."

..learn to love to embrace the competition..

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Our oldest son said Mike Matheney told him to...

"Play for an audience of One."

TXMom,

That is my choice as the very best one liner, so far! Not sure everyone will fully understand, but that just might be the most valuable advice of all.

That audience of one should be either the smartest baseball person you know or the one person in baseball most important to you.

PG,

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That audience of one should be either the smartest baseball person you know or the one person in baseball most important to you.

Curious if you think there might be problems on the horizon if this "audience" is not the player's present manager If someone other than the manager, might a player be playing to the wrong audience? Curious what your take might be.

Playing for an Audience of One is the motto of Athletes In Action......any questions, feel free to pm me....

maybe i'm taking it wrong but i here, play for you.an audience of one.

20dad, You're doing it for YOURSELF .... It's that inner drive inside you.... YOUR love of the game is why you play.

"You can't go to the Kentucky Derby with donkeys".
...O. Guillen 1st yr ChSox Mgr ('03)


OBTW: "Playing for an audience of one"
....for AIA....
.means promoting Jesus Christ as Lord & Savior:
to 1 World (to reach)
to 1 Language (of sport)
to 1 Message (of victory)

cheers,
Bear

"You can't go to the Kentucky Derby with donkeys".
...O. Guillen 1st yr ChSox Mgr ('03)

"But you CAN win a World Series with a jacka$$ as a manager".
Moc1 '06

See the ball hit the ball!

Best advice I've ever given:
TO my son hoping to make the starting HS line up as a Senior after a not-so-hot Junior year.
"Just hit the ball, they'll find a place for you."
He hit .462 as a Senior.

"If you think you can or you think you can't, you're probably right".

Best single piece of advice for virtually any sport, from John Wooden: "You must be quick but never hurry."

The best advice I ever got was "Always..." no wait,it was "Never..." Dang! I'll have to get back to you on it.


Mike F

Wisdom from my high school coach:

"You can't make chicken salad out of chicken sh_t."

"Pull your head out of your _ss."

and his only clean one...

"This ain't no country club."

"Be the Ball" Ty Web

keep the game moving..........

Buck O'Neil...

If you want it bad enough, it's there for you.

Had a coach that would never fail to tell us before we broke it out prior to taking the field....

"Don't suck."

It's not baseball, but
I once knew a record producer who was famous for proclaiming,
"You can't polish a turd."

Ain't that the truth.

OK, I think I got it...

If someone wants to know whether you are good or not...

Never tell them...always show them.

Mike F

To a kid who just had a bad game.

How much fun would it be if you knew you were going to win every time you played the game ?

A coach in Tampa has been known to say:

"I'm not here to blow sunshine up your a$$."

I would hope that the best "advice" I could give my son at this time is..."I sure am proud of you!"

(Well, the sig line below is also pretty good )

"Fear none, Respect all!"