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(Provost/Nix)
October 10, 1992
DEBPRE
PRESIDENTIAL TALKING POINTS: Airport Arrival
St. Louis, Missouri
October 11, 1992
*
This is the hometown of Yogi Berra -- the man who said: "You
can learn a lot just by watching." Perfect prescription for
tonight's debate.
*
I'm no Oxford debater, but I do know how to tell the truth.
*
The liberal media elite want to proclaim that this election
is over and their candidate won. I say -- "let the people
decide."
(Provost/Nix)
October 10, 1992
DEBATEPOST
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
Post-Debate Rally
St. Louis, Missouri
October 11, 1992
Thank you (Lee Greenwood), and good evening everyone, thanks
for this welcome -- you warm my soul.
I know you've all just watched politicians talk for 90
straight minutes. So out of a sense of concern for my vocal
chords, and for your sanity, I won't go on very long right now.
I will say I feel sorry for anyone who tuned in early to the
baseball game -- and instead saw a two-on-one tag-team rhetorical
wrestling match. But I'll confess, I don't mind taking on two
debaters -- it almost makes it an even fight. //
Tonight, the American people saw a clear difference -- in
experience, in philosophy, in ideas, in character, in leadership. 11
Bill Clinton's friends in the media want you to believe that
this race is over -- but I think that's a little premature.
Let's not let the media and the polls decide this election.
I say -- let the people decide. //
Let the people decide -- if you want smaller government and
lower taxes. //
Let the people decide -- if you want to give every parent the
right to choose your kids schools. //
Let the people decide -- if you want to fix our crazy legal
system -- and limit the terms of members of Congress. //
And let the people decide -- if you want to turn the ship of
state over -- to a leader with no world experience. //
As the American people really understand the choice they face
this November -- I believe they will choose to renew America --
with our leadership. //
Ultimately we are battling not to win an election -- our
crusade is more than that.
Our crusade is to renew America, in the same way we have
renewed the world.
To give our children the finest schools, to fix our health
care system, to train one generation for new work, and provide new
jobs for the next generation.
This is what our crusade is all about. This is what we talked
about this evening, and the message we will continue to pound home
-- until we win on November 3rd. / / This is why we will win in
November.
Thank you all for turning out this evening. God bless you and
the United States of America.
# # #
October 8, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR STEVE PROVOST
FROM:
MICHELE NIX
SUBJECT:
PRE-DEBATE ARRIVAL AND POST-DEBATE RALLY COLOR
PRE-DEBATE AIRPORT ARRIVAL
The President is expected to deboard the plane and directly
head over to the crowd to work a rope line. A microphone will be
set up should he want to say a few words. There's nothing too
elaborate planned. The audience will have signs to wave around -
- and there is sure to be Clinton-bashing banners made by the
audience.
POST-DEBATE RALLY
According to Advance, they're going to "raise the roof" at
this event. The President will speak at St. Louis Community
College at Forest Park. [The President can just say: "It's great
to be here at Forest Park. ] Doesn't have to say whole name.
The President's remarks are supposed to be "Thank you and aw
shucks" in tone. Per Karen Grooms: His remarks should be brief,
and he is not to come out and claim victory for the debate. No
"I really beat the pants off that guy, didn't I" language. He
should be humble and gracious and warmed by the crowd's
enthusiasm.
The event will take place in a gym at the Physical Education
Building. It won't look much like a gym when the event
takes place, although he should be able to see the hoops.
But there will be a large sign above and behind him that
looks like a scoreboard. It will say:
St. Louis Debate Scoreboard
BUSH 92
Clinton 0 (name will be small)
Perot 0 (name will be even smaller)
Banners will be throughout the gym. They will say:
"In George We Trust" (Letters will look like the print
from a dollar bill.]
"Who's going to pay the bill, Bill. Not the American
people will."
There will be hand-held fans for the audience to fan
themselves with -- like the ones from Enid, OK. On one
side, they will say: "I'm a Bush fan. " The other side will
say, "Clinton makes me hot."
Entertainment scheduled so far includes: The Gatlin
Brothers and Lee Greenwood. Lee will be singing his
trademark song, "God Bless the USA. "
Advance is considering doing a fireworks show before the
President enters the building. No decision has been made.
There's been a lot of running jokes going around the city
about St. Louis being targeted by all the candidates. They
are overwhelmed by the attention, used to being somewhat
ignored. It seems that there's always a street blocked off
for a motorcade.
St. Louis is made up of a whole bunch of smaller "cities."
Here's a handful: Kirkwood, Webster, Chesterfield,
Florissant (big one), Clayton and Ladue (both quite rich).
Some St. Louis landmarks: The Arch ("Gateway Arch"),
National Bowling Hall of Fame, Dog Museum (Millie joke)
Sport teams: Cardinals not doing well; hockey team called
"st. Louis Blues. " The PGA was held in St. Louis in August
(a big coup for the city).
From MO: Harry Truman, Mark Twain. Yogi Berra and Joe
Garagiola both grew up in the Italian Hill area -- a few
blocks away from where the President will be speaking. A
few Yogi Berra quotes:
"I thank everybody for making this day necessary. "
"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where
you are going, because you might not get there. "
"Swing at the strikes."
"It ain't over till it's over. "
"You observe a lot by watching."
State nickname: Show Me State. State motto: The welfare
of the people shall be the supreme law.
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
October 8, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR THE CHIEF OF STAFF
TIM MCBRIDE
PAUL BATEMAN
DAN MCGROARTY
DAVID BATES
LAURA MELILLO
TONY BENEDI
HENSON MOORE
PHILLIP BRADY
JANE MOORE
ANN BROCK
JANET MULLINS
MICHAEL BUSCH
ED MURNANE
NICK CALIO
ROGER PORTER
BILLY DALE
PATTY PRESOCK
DAVID DEMAREST
STEVEN PROVOST
BILL FARISH
SUSAN PORTER ROSE
LAURIE FIRESTONE
DENNIS ROSS
MARLIN FITZWATER
BRENT SCOWCROFT
CLAYTON FONG
DORRANCE SMITH
GARY FOSTER
JUDY SMITH
JOHN GAUGHAN
KATHY SUPER
BOYDEN GRAY
PEGGY SWIFT
KAREN GROOMES
MARGARET TUTWILER
EDE HOLIDAY
DAVID VALDEZ
CONSTANCE HORNER
ROSE ZAMARIA
TOM HUFFORD
ROBERT ZOELLICK
RON KAUFMAN
USSS/PPD OPS
BOBBIE KILBERG
WHCA OPS
CECE KREMER
MEDICAL UNIT
WILLIAM KRISTOL
AIRLIFT OPS
MICHAEL LUCAS
WHTV
CHRISTINA MARTIN
FROM:
JOHN G. KELLER, JR.
J61C(MA)
SUBJECT:
TRIP OF THE PRESIDENT TO ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI;
SPRINGFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA; AND GRAND RAPIDS
AND HOLLAND, MICHIGAN, OCTOBER 11 - 12, 1992
For your use and planning purposes, the attached is a preliminary
outline schedule for the Trip of the President to St. Louis,
Missouri; Springfield, Pennsylvania; and Grand Rapids and
Holland, Michigan, October 11 - 12, 1992.
Please keep in mind the following information has not been
finally approved and is subject to change.
Attachments
PRELIMINARY OUTLINE SCHEDULE
October 11 - 12, 1992
Sunday, October 11, 1992
GUEST AND STAFF INSTRUCTIONS:
9:30 am Baggage Call. Please place all
unlocked baggage outside Room
89 1/2, O.E.O.B., at this time.
11:25 am Vans depart West Basement
en route Andrews Air Force
Base.
11:25 am Those with own transportation
and baggage should arrive
Andrews Air Force Base,
Distinguished Visitor's
Lounge, at this time.
11:45 am Those with own transportation
without baggage should arrive
Andrews Air Force Base,
Distinguished Visitor's
Lounge, at this time.
12:10 pm
MARINE ONE departs White House en route Andrews
Air Force Base.
(Flying Time: 10 Minutes)
12:20 pm
MARINE ONE arrives Andrews Air Force Base.
12:30 pm
AIR FORCE ONE departs Andrews Air Force Base
(E.D.T.)
en route St. Louis, Missouri.
(Flying Time: 1 Hour 55 Minutes)
(Interchange: No)
(Time Change: Back 1 Hour)
1:25 pm
AIR FORCE ONE arrives St. Louis-Lambert
(C.D.T.)
International Airport, St. Louis, Missouri.
1:35 pm
MOTORCADE departs St. Louis-Lambert International
Airport en route Field House, Washington
University.
(Drive Time: 20 Minutes)
1:55 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Field House, Washington
University.
*
TECHNICAL WALK-THROUGH OF DEBATE SITE
- Closed Press
(2:00 pm - 3:00 pm)
3:05 pm
MOTORCADE departs Field House en route Drury Inn
at Union Station.
(Drive Time: 10 Minutes)
3:15 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Drury Inn at Union Station.
*
PRIVATE TIME: 1 HOUR 35 MINUTES
(3:20 pm - 4:55 pm)
5:00 pm
MOTORCADE departs Drury Inn at Union Station
en route Field House, Washington University.
(Drive Time: 10 Minutes)
5:10 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Field House, Washington
University.
*
PRIVATE TIME: 40 MINUTES
(5:15 pm - 5:55 pm)
*
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
- Open Press
- Live Television Coverage
- Question and Answer Session
- Closing Statement
(6:00 pm - 7:30 pm)
*
PRIVATE TIME: 30 MINUTES
(7:35 pm - 8:05 pm)
8:10 pm
MOTORCADE departs Field House en route
Forrest Park Community College.
(Drive Time: 10 Minutes)
8:20 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Forrest Park Community College.
*
POST DEBATE WELCOME
- Open Press
- Brief Remarks
(8:25 pm - 8:45 pm)
8:50 pm
MOTORCADE departs Forrest Park Community College
en route Drury Inn at Union Station.
(Drive Time: 10 Minutes)
9:00 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Drury Inn at Union Station.
*
CAMPAIGN TELEVISION INTERVIEW
- Closed Press
- Question and Answer Session
(9:05 pm - 9:10 pm)
RON St. Louis, Missouri
Monday, October 12, 1992
7:10 am
MOTORCADE departs Drury Inn at Union Station en
route St. Louis-Lambert International Airport.
(Drive Time: 25 Minutes)
7:35 am
MOTORCADE arrives St. Louis-Lambert International
Airport.
7:40 am
AIR FORCE ONE departs St. Louis, Missouri
(C.D.T.)
en route Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(Flying Time: 2 Hours 15 Minutes)
(Interchange: Yes)
(Time Change: Ahead 1 Hour)
10:55 am
AIR FORCE ONE arrives Philadelphia International
(E.D.T.)
Airport, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
11:05 am
MOTORCADE departs Philadelphia International
Airport en route Springfield, Pennsylvania.
(Drive Time: 15 Minutes)
11:20 am
MOTORCADE arrives Springfield Township Municipal
Building, Springfield, Pennsylvania.
*
SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP WELCOME
- Open Press
- Remarks
- Teleprompter
(11:25 am - 12:05 pm)
12:10 pm
MOTORCADE departs Springfield, Pennsylvania en
route Victory '92 Site.
(Drive Time: 10 Minutes)
12:20 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Victory '92 Site.
*
MEETING WITH VICTORY '92 SUPPORTERS
- Closed Press
(12:25 pm - 12:55 pm)
1:00 pm
MOTORCADE departs Victory '92 Site en route
Philadelphia International Airport.
(Drive Time: 15 Minutes)
1:15 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Philadelphia International
Airport.
1:20 pm
AIR FORCE ONE departs Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(E.D.T.)
en route Grand Rapids, Michigan.
(Flying Time: 1 Hour 55 Minutes)
(Interchange: Yes)
(Time Change: None)
3:15 pm
AIR FORCE ONE arrives Kent County International
(E.D.T.)
Airport, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
3:25 pm
MOTORCADE departs Kent County International
Airport en route Holland, Michigan.
(Drive Time: 40 Minutes)
4:05 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Hope College, Holland, Michigan
*
HOLLAND WELCOME
- Open Press
- Remarks
- Teleprompter
(4:10 pm - 4:50 pm)
*
PRIVATE TIME: 10 MINUTES
(4:55 pm - 5:05 pm)
5:10 pm
MOTORCADE departs Hope College, Holland, Michigan
en route Grand Rapids, Michigan.
(Drive Time: 45 Minutes)
5:55 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Victory '92 Reception Site,
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
*
VICTORY '92 RECEPTION
- Closed Press
- Brief Informal Remarks
(6:00 pm - 6:45 pm)
6:50 pm
MOTORCADE departs Victory '92 Reception Site
en route Victory '92 Dinner Site.
(Drive Time: 5 Minutes)
6:55 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Victory '92 Dinner Site.
*
VICTORY '92 DINNER
- Closed Press
- Brief Informal Remarks
(7:00 pm - 8:15 pm)
8:20 pm
MOTORCADE departs Victory '92 Site en route Kent
County International Airport.
(Drive Time: 15 Minutes)
8:35 pm
MOTORCADE arrives Kent County International
Airport.
8:40 pm
AIR FORCE ONE departs Grand Rapids, Michigan
(E.D.T.)
en route Andrews Air Force Base.
(Flying Time: 1 Hour 20 Minutes)
(Interchange: No)
(Time Change: None)
10:00 pm
AIR FORCE ONE arrives Andrews Air Force Base.
(E.D.T.)
10:10 pm
MARINE ONE departs Andrews Air Force Base en route
White House.
(Flying Time: 10 Minutes)
10:20 pm
MARINE ONE arrives White House.
SPORTS
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*
*
Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating.
-Goodman Ace
That potential alone [to expand mind and spirit] urges man to
continue his search-not to wait, as some insist, until he can first
set his own world completely in order.
-Mayo Mohs (If
Earthlings cannot cooperate with their fellow inhabitants, what
makes them think they can cooperate with the inhabitants of other
planets?)
*
*
What if Columbus had been told, "Chris, baby, don't go now. Wait
until we've solved our No. 1 Priorities-war and famine; poverty
and crime; pollution and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred-and
Queen Isabella's own brand of 'internal security."
-W. I. E. Gates
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know
enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another
question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.
-Desmond Morris
SPORTS
As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get
paid.
-Irvin S. Cobb
If the people don't want to come out to the park, nobody's going
to stop 'em.
-Yogi Berra
I want to thank everybody who made this day necessary.
-Yogi Berra
You can't think and hit at the same time.
-Yogi Berra
Rockne wanted nothing but "bad losers." Good losers get into the
habit of losing.
-George E. Allen
You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.
-Leo Durocher
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only
survivors.
-Frank Gifford
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you
work at it, it's golf.
-Bob Hope
I play in the low 80's. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
-Joe E. Lewis
POKER / 197
The more gadgets you use, the worse the picture.
FELIX MAN, speech at George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y., May
13, 1971
I try to be as dumb as the camera. It's an immense discipline.
GARRY WINOGRAND, quoted in Newsweek, Nov. 7, 1977
Snapshots show nothing but joy. Year after year of it.
WILLIAM MAXWELL, Over the River, 1977
PLAN/PLANNERS also see DISORDER; ORDER
To preplan too thoroughly is to kill life.
PAUL GOODMAN, Drawing the Line, Taylor Stoehr, ed., 1977
Merely making proposals takes only a typewriter; making workable
proposals takes time.
RICHARD M. NIXON, Legislative Message to Congress, Apr. 1969
A planner can neither improve things nor make them much worse.
GEORGE KONRAD ON URBAN PLANNING, The City Builder, 1977
The only military plan that goes according to schedule is a parade.
U.S. GENERAL, Vietnam, quoted in Newsweek, Apr. 5, 1971
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going,
because you might not get there.
YOGI BERRA, quoted in Business Week, Oct. 12, 1974
Who plans the planners?
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO THE ELDER, quoted in Saturday Review, July
26, 1975
POKER also see GAMBLERS, GAMBLING
Poker is a game of discipline and management, and the second is real-
ly a factor of the first. Beyond that, it is a game of subtle questions
and shouted answers that can only be heard by a deaf man. The open-
ing bet is the question. What your opponents do is the answer. If it's
loud enough-a big bet-you had better be deaf to the pounding of
your heart or you will be misled by it.
CRANDALL ADDINGTON, gambler, interview in New York Times, May
19, 1973
PROFIT / 213
PROBLEMS
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you
look at it the right way, did not become still more complicated.
POUL ANDERSON, quoted in Kaiser News, no. 1, 1970
For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and
wrong.
H. L. MENCKEN, quoted on "MacNeil/Lehrer Report," PBS, Dec. 17,
1975
Some problems never get solved. They just get older.
CHAIM WEIZMANN, quoted on PBS, Apr. 10, 1972
You can't pick up a jellyfish by the corners.
MCGEORGE BUNDY ON ELUSIVE PROBLEMS, quoted in Newsweek, Dec.
26, 1967
Obviously, for wolves, be they in sheep's clothing or in mufti, it is al-
ways best to refer to the lamb problem in the interest of public rela-
tions, as well as for the good of the lupine conscience.
LINDA NOCHLIN, Woman in Sexist Society, Vivian Gornick and Bar-
bara K. Moran, eds., 1971
Did you ever consider hitting it closer to the hole?
BEN HOGAN TO GOLFER WITH PUTTING PROBLEM, quoted in Newsweek,
Feb. 3, 1975
Swing at the strikes.
ATTRIBUTED TO YOGI BERRA ADVISING BATTER IN A SLUMP
A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription
for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.
RUSSELL BAKER, interview in Time, Jan. 19, 1967
PROFESSORS see TEACHERS/TEACHING
PROFIT also see CAPITALISM
Profits are part of the mechanism by which society decides what it
wants to see produced.
HENRY C. WALLICH, Newsweek, Jan. 16, 1967
SPORTS
VLADIMIR ZWORYKIN
JOHN BACHAR, rock climber
1 The technique is wonderful. I didn't even dream it
14 Soloing is serious business, because you can be se-
would be so good. But I would never let my children
riously dead.
come close to the thing.
On climbing sheer rock faces alone without mechanical
Comments of developer of television. interviewed on his
aid, Newsweek 1 Oct 84
92nd birthday, news summaries 31 Dec 81
ED BARRY, rock climber
SPORTS
15 Sooner or later
you are going to be looking at
God saying, "We're going to be lucky if we get out
Athletes & Players
of here." Your life is going to be in front of you and
then you are going to realize that you'd rather be
HENRY ("HANK") AARON, NY Yankees
grocery shopping.
Newsweek 1 Oct 84
2 Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
To Casey Stengel, who had told him to hold the bat in
YOGI BERRA, NY Yankees catcher
such a way that he could see its trademark, quoted by
16 So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with
Bob Uecker and Mickey Herskowitz Catcher in the Wry
his face.
Putnam 82
Quoted in Bert Sugar comp The Book of Sports Quotes
Quick Fox 79
MUHAMMAD ALI, prizefighter
3 I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not
JIM BURT, NY Giants nose tackle
only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
17 I was a dirt-bag. Now I'm an All-Pro.
As US 1960 Olympic gold medalist in boxing, NY Times
On winning first NFC championship since 1956, quoted
9 Dec 62
by Eric Pooley "True Blue: From Giants to Supermen"
4 I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
New York 26 Jan 87
Before defeating Sonny Liston for world heavyweight
ROGER CLEMENS, Boston Red Sox pitcher
championship, NY Herald Tribune 26 Feb 64
18 I was pitching on all adrenaline
and challenging
5 I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his
them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart
hat on.
of the plate.
On fight with Floyd Patterson, quoted in NY Times 21
On breaking record by striking out 20 batters in a 9.
Nov 65
inning game, NY Times 1 May 86
6 I know I got it made while the masses of black peo-
ple are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I
DENNIS CONNER, yachtsman
ain't free.
19 Design has taken the place of what sailing used to
Playboy Nov 75
be.
7 There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my
After 1983 loss of America's Cup to Australia, recalled
fights have been a pleasure to win.
before he regained the cup, Time 9 Feb 87
ib
20 Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the
score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous
8 It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound
game of life.
the sand. I beat people up.
ib
NY Times 6 Apr 77
21 It basically was an art before. We're just starting to
9 When you can whip any man in the world, you never
scratch it into a science.
know peace.
On yacht racing, after regaining America's Cup, ib 16
On beginning treatment for Parkinson's syndrome,
Feb 87
Newsweek 1 Oct 84
10 Superman don't need no seat belt.
JIMMY CONNORS, tennis player
Comment to flight attendant, who replied, "Superman
22 People don't seem to understand that it's a damn
don't need no airplane, either," quoted by Clifton Fadi-
war out there.
man comp The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes Little,
Quoted by Thomas Tutko and William Bruns Winning
Brown 85
Is Everything and Other American Myths Macmillan 76
11 I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.
ANGEL CORDERO JR, jockey
On his golf game, ib
12 Only the nose knows
23 He's good enough for me. I won't say he's a super-
Where the nose goes
horse because you're never a superhorse until
When the door close.
you're retired. Any horse can be beaten on any giv-
en day.
Response when asked about sex in relationship to ath-
letic prowess, ib
On Spend a Buck, winner of Kentucky Derby, NY
Times 5 May 85
ANONYMOUS
TOM COURTNEY, US 1956 Olympic gold medalist, track
13 When he says "Sit down!" I don't even look for a
24 My head was exploding, my stomach ripping, and
chair.
even the tips of my fingers ached. The only thing I
Green Bay Packers player on coach Vince Lombardi,
could think was, "If I live, I will never run again!"
recalled on Lombardi's death 3 Sept 70
Life Summer 1984
384
Coaches, Officials & Owners
DON OTT, Athletes in Action basketball player
BILL TILDEN, tennis player
1 You might say they did unto us as we did unto
14 Hit at the girl whenever possible.
others.
On how to play mixed doubles, quoted by Phil Pepe and
On loss to UCLA, Sports Illustrated 24 Jan 83
Zander Hollander The Book of Sports Lists Pinnacle 79
JESSE OWENS, US 1936 Olympic gold medalist, track and
field
WILLYE WHITE, US 1956 Olympic silver medalist,
woman's long jump
2 Another old friend gone!
15 I was nervous, so I read the New Testament. I read
On learning that his last remaining world record had
the verse about have no fear, and I felt relaxed.
been broken, news summaries 31 Dec 60
Then I jumped farther than I ever jumped before in
WILLIAM ("REFRIGERATOR") PERRY, Chicago Bears
my life.
defensive tackle
Quoted in Life Summer 84
3 Even when I was little, I was big.
CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS, yachtsman
On his weight, quoted in Life Jan 86
16 It evokes another age of shipbuilding when the clip-
4 Some people call me the Kitchen, some call me the
pers reigned. It's like the Parthenon, showing off
Dining Room-and some call me the Cafeteria!
lovely, immutable laws of aesthetics.
NBC TV 23 Sep 86
On the restored 1930 yacht Jezebel, NY Times 4 May
GARY PLAYER, golfer
85
5 Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe
YUN Lou, Chinese 1984 Olympic gymnast
mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to
17 Suit too big. Grabbed pants instead of pommel.
keep company with me, don't embarrass me."
On scoring low in pommel horse competition, news
Christian Science Monitor 24 Jun 65
summaries 30 Jul 84
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON, prizefighter
Coaches, Officials & Owners
6 My business is hurting people.
Comment to NY State Boxing Commission, news sum-
ALEX AGASE, University of Michigan, assistant football
maries 23 May 62
coach
JOHN ROSKELLEY, mountain climber
18 If you really want to advise me, do it on Saturday
7 You've got to know when to turn around.
afternoon between 1 and 4 o'clock. And you've got
On those who have failed to duplicate the feat of two
25 seconds to do it, between plays. Not on Monday.
men who climbed Mt Everest without bottled oxygen in
I know the right thing to do on Monday.
1975, NY Times 10 Aug 86
Quoted by Thomas J Peters and Nancy K Austin "A
Passion for Excellence" Fortune 13 May 85
TOM SANDERS, former Boston Celtics center
Yogi BERRA, professional baseball manager
8 Learn to compartmentalize yourself. You're an ath-
lete for only a few more years. You have to live 80
19 What difference does the uniform make? You don't
or 90 years, so you better find more things to do.
hit with it.
To student athletes, NY Times 20 May 86
On becoming coach of the Houston Astros, NY Times
8 May 86
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, body builder
20 It ain't over till it's over.
9 I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like
As 1973 manager of NY Mets in National League pen-
someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
nant race, quoted by William Safire ib 15 Feb 87
News summaries 31 Dec 79
TERRY BRENNAM, University of Notre Dame football
WILLIE SHOEMAKER, jockey
coach
10 If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can
21 If you're old and you lose, they say you're outmod-
win the Kentucky Derby at 54.
ed. If you're young and you lose, they say you're
Quoted by Life Jan 87
green. So don't lose.
Life 25 Mar 57
LEON SPINKS, prizefighter
11 I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least
DAVE BRISTOL, Cincinnati Reds manager
I ain't no educated fool.
22 Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun.
LA Times 28 Jun 78
You do that by winning.
On becoming manager, Time 26 May 67
MARK SPITZ, US 1972 Olympic gold medalist, swimming
12 I swam my brains out.
AVERY BRUNDAGE, President, International Olympic
Committee
On winning seven gold medals, a record number for a
single Olympiad, news summaries 31 Dec 72
23 Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports
LAWRENCE TAYLOR, NY Giants linebacker
played professionally are entertainment.
This Week 14 Jan 68
13 He's a cocky sumbitch. That's what makes him such
a great player.
BOBBY CLARKE, Philadelphia Flyers manager
On quarterback Phil Simms, quoted by Eric Pooley
24 I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors
"True Blue: From Giants to Supermen" New York 26
I start.
Jan 87
Sports Illustrated 15 Jul 84
387
33. BERRAISMS
99
13 God's miracles are to be found in nature itself;
to talk about. Religious experience is highly inti-
the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a
mate and, for me, at least, ready words are not at
tree-all of these are explained biologically, but
hand.
behind them is the hand of God. And I believe that
ADLAI E. STEVENSON, speaking at Libertyville,
is true of creation itself.
Illinois, May 21, 1954.
RONALD REAGAN, in Sincerely, Ronald Reagan,
17 No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the
1976.
godless man.
14 Copernicus
did not publish his book [on the
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, Uncle Tom's Cabin,
nature of the solar system] until he was on his
1852.
deathbed. He knew how dangerous it is to be right
18 My land, the power of training! of influence! of
when the rest of the world is wrong.
education! It can bring a body up to believe any-
THOMAS BRACKETT REED, in a speech at
thing.
Waterville, Maine, July 30, 1885.
MARK TWAIN, A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur's Court, 1889.
15 Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it
is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
19 If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he
comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and
is a crank, and that settles it. I mean it does nowa-
proudly through a long youth, until at last, in the
days, because now we can't burn him.
ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely
MARK TWAIN, Following the Equator, 1897.
exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
GEORGE SANTAYANA, Skepticism and Animal
20 In religion and politics people's beliefs and con-
victions are in almost every case gotten at second-
Faith, 1923.
hand, and without examination, from authorities
16 What do I believe? As an American I believe
who have not themselves examined the questions at
in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These
issue but have taken them at second-hand from
are social and political faiths that are part of me, as
other non-examiners, whose opinions about them
they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs
were not worth a brass farthing.
are easy to express. But part of me too is my rela-
MARK TWAIN, Mark Twain's Autobiography,
tion to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy
1959.
33. BERRAISMS
1 Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half
See also BASEBALL
is physical.
On the game of baseball.
2 You observe a lot by watching.
The sayings of baseball great Lawrence P.
"Yogi" Berra are the stuff that legends are built
On his qualifications to be a coach.
of. While it is doubtful that Berra actually said
3 That's his style of hittin'. If you can't imitate
many of the things attributed to him-he has
him, don't copy him.
denied ever having said some of them-there is
On the batting technique of Frank Robinson.
no doubt that they are among the most favored
American quotations.
ISB
33. BERRAISMS
100
4 It gets late early out there.
7 I guess the first thing I ought to say is that I
On having trouble with the sun at Yankee
thank everybody for making this day necessary.
In
Stadium in the fall.
Opening remark in his address at the Baseball
5 Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded.
Hall of Fame induction ceremony, August 7,
1972.
an
On a popular restaurant.
8 It ain't over till it's over.
6 Wotta house. Nothin' but rooms!
On the game of baseball.
On his new house in Montclair, New Jersey.
FRANCES M. BEAL, "Double Jeopardy: To Be
Black and Female," in Robin Morgan, Sisterhood
34. BLACK AMERICANS
Is Powerful, 1970.
See also AMERICANS; CIVIL RIGHTS;
EQUALITY; SLAVERY
6 The destiny of the colored American
is the
destiny of America.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, in a speech in Boston,
1 No Viet Cong ever called me "Nigger."
February 12, 1862.
MUHAMMAD ALI, quoted in Norman Mailer, The
ta
Fight, 1975.
7 Where justice is denied, where poverty is en-
of
forced, where ignorance prevails, and where any
2 Out of the huts of history's shame
one class is made to feel that society is in an orga-
ra
I rise
nized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them,
TI
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
neither persons nor property will be safe.
I rise
W
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, in an address on the
Tl
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
twenty-fourth anniversary of Emancipation in the
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
District of Columbia, Washington, D.C., April,
MAYA ANGELOU, "Still I Rise," in And Still I
1886.
Rise, 1978.
8 If a man calls me a nigger, he is calling me
3 If we do not now dare everything, the fulfill-
cl
something I am not. The nigger exists only in his
ment of that prophecy, re-created from the Bible
own mind; therefore his mind is the nigger. I must
q'
in song by a slave, is upon us: God gave Noah
feel sorry for such a man.
fi
the rainbow sign, No more water, the fire next
time!
DICK GREGORY, The Shadow that Scares Me,
1968.
gr
JAMES BALDWIN, The Fire Next Time, 1963.
q'
+ To be black and conscious in America is to be in
9 [Civil Rights:] What black folks are given in the
a constant state of rage.
U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills.
Not to be confused with human rights, which
JAMES BALDWIN, quoted in Joan Didion, The
are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and
White Album, 1979.
freedom belonging to all people by right of their
5 Let me state here and now that the black woman
birth.
in America can justly be described as a "slave of a
DICK GREGORY, Dick Gregory's Political
slave."
Primer, 1972.