John McGraw quote: "In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game."

My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.
JOHN MCGRAW

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kin...
JOHN MCGRAW

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.
JOHN MCGRAW

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I...
JOHN MCGRAW

Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings...
JOHN MCGRAW

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.
JOHN MCGRAW

This course gives me a lot more insight into the mentality and capability of attackers. We know all ...
JOHN MCGRAW

My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.
JOHN MCGRAW

The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.
JOHN MCGRAW

With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fin...
JOHN MCGRAW

The main idea is to win.
JOHN MCGRAW

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best thing...
JOHN MCGRAW

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good cl...
JOHN MCGRAW

There is but one game and that game is baseball.
JOHN MCGRAW

If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all ...
PHIL MCGRAW

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they c...
PHIL MCGRAW

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket...
TIM MCGRAW

Now, my body fat runs around 18 percent, which is normal and, you know, kind of in the middle of nor...
PHIL MCGRAW

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of dist...
PHIL MCGRAW

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.
PHIL MCGRAW

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image...
PHIL MCGRAW

You don't need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.
PHIL MCGRAW

It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
PHIL MCGRAW

What we do is we step in and we help them get a leg up, because an average refund is about $1,300.
BETH MCGRAW

It can be very confusing.
BETH MCGRAW

Nobody should consider going onto post secondary without completing the FAFSA form. And it's first c...
BETH MCGRAW

The tax code is set up so that you can get these refundable credits. The average refund is again any...
BETH MCGRAW

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.
PHIL MCGRAW

I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out...
TIM MCGRAW

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ...
TIM MCGRAW

There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference...
PHIL MCGRAW

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean ...
PHIL MCGRAW

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb th...
PHIL MCGRAW

Parents need to dial in and know what their kids are doing.
PHIL MCGRAW

I really love 'Dexter.' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breakin...
MELINDA MCGRAW

She said I bet you don’t remember meAnd I said only every other memory.
TIM MCGRAW

I worked so hard for that first kissAnd a heart don’t forget something like thatLike an old photog...
TIM MCGRAW

Why is it, when your looking for that someone, you find no one, but, once you find it, a lot more ch...
TIM MCGRAW

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken g...
PHIL MCGRAW

My next thirty years I’m gonna settle all the scores,Cry a little less, laugh a little more.Find a...
TIM MCGRAW

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image...
PHIL MCGRAW

My dad used to say that the holidays are when you get a whole bunch of people that really aren't tha...
PHIL MCGRAW

I'm embarrassed every time I look a teacher in the eye, because we ask them to do so much for so lit...
PHIL MCGRAW

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher stan...
PHIL MCGRAW

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distract...
PHIL MCGRAW

It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to th...
PHIL MCGRAW

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm g...
PHIL MCGRAW

We usually put three or four seconds on the clock, so we were a little short of that.
MUFFET MCGRAW

She's such a great scorer. We tried using a box-and-one or doubling her on the wing. I don't think y...
MUFFET MCGRAW

You know, I'm not a big talker, especially on the stage. So this special, there is probably a little...
TIM MCGRAW

I went sky divin', I went rocky mountain climbin', I went 2.7 seconds on a bull name Fumanchu.And I ...
TIM MCGRAW

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights play...
TIM MCGRAW

We took a couple of days off this week, and Wednesday we had one of our best practices of the year.
MUFFET MCGRAW

There are a lot of familiar teams.
MUFFET MCGRAW

It's good that we held them to 62 points when they are averaging 83. The crowd was a big part of our...
MUFFET MCGRAW

She is the consummate team player.
MUFFET MCGRAW

Our goal is now to understand how certain males keep a better plumage than others. Factors like ultr...
KEVIN MCGRAW

Kids should practice autographing baseballs. This is a skill that's often overlooked in Little L...
TUG MCGRAW

As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last...
MELINDA MCGRAW

As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.
PHIL MCGRAW

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Numbe...
TIM MCGRAW

We tried to guard her. I guess she wanted to prove she should have been on the All-Rookie team.
MUFFET MCGRAW

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other every...
TIM MCGRAW

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher stan...
PHIL MCGRAW

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, ...
PHIL MCGRAW

I worked so hard for that first kiss
And a heart dont forget something like that

Like...
TIM MCGRAW

We knew we could make a great record because we had the confidence of the last album. We were then a...
TIM MCGRAW

And we carry onWhen our lives come undoneWe carry onCause there's promise in the morning sunWe carry...
TIM MCGRAW

I've been part of the Red Cross Celebrity Cabinet since 2002, which was in its inception or when it ...
TIM MCGRAW

[Only two lines change in that opening each week. And those lines, usually references to the teams p...
TIM MCGRAW

Monday Night Football.
TIM MCGRAW

It makes sense though,
TIM MCGRAW

We've seen a basic improvement on fan behavior so fans can have a safe, enjoyable time, ... Last yea...
TIM MCGRAW

One of the major problems was the initial flow of people coming in, ... Everyone came at the last mi...
TIM MCGRAW

As a member of the American Red Cross National Celebrity Cabinet and native of Louisiana, I am writi...
TIM MCGRAW

Comeback.
TIM MCGRAW

A Concert for Hurricane Relief,
TIM MCGRAW

If you don't feel comfortable with the Red Cross, anything that you feel comfortable sending money t...
TIM MCGRAW

Set This Circus Down
TIM MCGRAW

You know what I can say? Vote. That's the best answer I can give.
TIM MCGRAW

Since we've been married, we've always been together on tour, whether Faith tags along with me or I ...
TIM MCGRAW

The initial stages of our investigation indicate there isn't a public-safety concern. At this point,...
TIM MCGRAW

We've been married, this'll be our 10th year, so I guess we've traveled on tour for 10 years. She's ...
TIM MCGRAW

Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, b...
TIM MCGRAW

We're very blessed, just very fortunate to have the things we have.
TIM MCGRAW

Here's to the corners yet to turnHere's to the bridges yet to burnHere's to the whole thing blown ap...
TIM MCGRAW

Maybe in 10 or 15 years when the music has died down.
TIM MCGRAW

Once a declaration of disaster was declared, then it wasn't a state issue anymore. Help was asked fo...
TIM MCGRAW

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of eachother everyw...
TIM MCGRAW

Always root for the winner. That way you won't be disappointed.
TUG MCGRAW

I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf)
TUG MCGRAW

Tennessee is an elite team and rebounds better than any team I've seen. We need to figure out how to...
MUFFET MCGRAW

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches bet...
TUG MCGRAW

PETA is calling on all zoos to follow the lead of the Detroit Zoo and the San Francisco Zoo and reti...
MICHAEL MCGRAW

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concer...
TIM MCGRAW

I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have t...
TIM MCGRAW

We were lucky to win. LeSueur had a great game. Four points in 10 minutes has to be a record for us.
MUFFET MCGRAW

We haven't seen that kind of pressure since, not even from Tennessee.
MUFFET MCGRAW

In this case, the horse ran through traffic and crashed into a car and could've killed someone.
MICHAEL MCGRAW

They're still a very, very fundamentally sound, great defensive team. They're very well coached. The...
MUFFET MCGRAW

She takes it all in stride. That's her job and she's very accountable. If we don't win, she finds a ...
MUFFET MCGRAW

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else...
PHIL MCGRAW

I just think it's better for the team to know they have to look at one person on the floor. I have t...
MUFFET MCGRAW

People always ask me
"Son what does it take
To reach out and touch your dreams?"
To t...
TIM MCGRAW

There's a tear in his eye that refuses to fall.If it would land on me, that would say it all.
TIM MCGRAW

They say drinking will kill youThe same thing for rolling smokesBut that's two of the three things t...
TIM MCGRAW

Oscar Night generates excitement all over the world, and with the Academy's help, our guests will fe...
STEVE MCGRAW

I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.
PHIL MCGRAW

Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower.
PHIL MCGRAW

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, ...
PHIL MCGRAW

I mean, look, teachers don't do their job for the money, obviously, because we pay them ridiculo...
PHIL MCGRAW

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.
PHIL MCGRAW

I tell you, if you're in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you'r...
PHIL MCGRAW

I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads y...
TIM MCGRAW

I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg -...
TIM MCGRAW

I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotio...
PHIL MCGRAW

Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll...
TUG MCGRAW

Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make...
TIM MCGRAW

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.
PHIL MCGRAW

We had a lot of close matches.
DONAL MCGRAW

He's there to do the job and lead every single point.
DONAL MCGRAW

We need really to focus on our defense and blocking.
DONAL MCGRAW

It was just a fluke.
DONAL MCGRAW

Awareness without action is worthless.
PHIL MCGRAW

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you...
PHIL MCGRAW

I believe the commissioners don't want people to travel outside of our county for care.
DEB MCGRAW

This isn't an easy fix unfortunately. We're still in our infancy gathering data to find solutions.
DEB MCGRAW

This has been an ongoing problem ever since the Rural Health Clinic closed.
DEB MCGRAW

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He...
TIM MCGRAW

because being with you makes perfect sense
TIM MCGRAW

I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away...
TIM MCGRAW

Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?
PHIL MCGRAW

When you get married, your loyalty, first and foremost, is to your spouse, and to the family that yo...
PHIL MCGRAW

Two of their players, Angela Clark and Danielle Chambers, are averaging better than 10 rebounds per ...
MUFFET MCGRAW

If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the...
PHIL MCGRAW

Loving a man shouldn't have to be this rough
TIM MCGRAW

On SUCCESS: "Life Rewards the DO-ers and WOW-makers." (TM)
NANCI MCGRAW

It was a good game. Otter Valley played very well. We left it all on the field, but we just couldn't...
JULIE MCGRAW

Bellows Falls is going to be a big game for us. They are number two in our division and we've played...
JULIE MCGRAW

It was just a great game. This is the best I've seen my girls play.
JULIE MCGRAW

We just came out flat in the first half. But we played better in the second half. It was a learning ...
JULIE MCGRAW

[Megan McKeever] has become more vocal and really taken the leadership role for us.
JULIE MCGRAW

Coming into the season I really have high expectations for this year's team. We have a strong senior...
JULIE MCGRAW

I think it'll be a good test for us. We've always played well against them and they have a great fie...
JULIE MCGRAW

We've played a lot of Division I and Division II teams, which will help us in the tournament, but we...
JULIE MCGRAW

We gave it our all from the beginning to the end. We had our opportunities and our chances.
JULIE MCGRAW

We did some great things out there. We played as a team, we communicated, but we just have to score....
JULIE MCGRAW

That was by far the coldest I've ever been on a baseball field. The wind was in my face the whole ti...
MATT MCGRAW

We weren't getting enough offense without her. She's smart enough to play with two fouls.
MUFFETT MCGRAW

This year she's had to do it all. She's had to be the leading scorer. She's had to be the leader. Sh...
MUFFET MCGRAW

I went sky divin', I went rocky mountain climbin',
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull name Fumanchu.<...
TIM MCGRAW

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.
PHILLIP C. MCGRAW

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life ...
PHILLIP C. MCGRAW

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.
PHILLIP C. MCGRAW

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends' children... the problem is closer than you think,...
PHILLIP C. MCGRAW

It's hard to see your own face without a mirror.
PHILLIP C. MCGRAW

You don't need stain-resistant pants to pop a blister.
PHILLIP C. MCGRAW

You have the duty and gift of living. You don't have the right to sit on the sidelines-use your life...
PHILLIP C. MCGRAW

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how ...
PHILLIP C. MCGRAW

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
PHILLIP C. MCGRAW

Take it from a guy: If you're in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mo...
PHILLIP C. MCGRAW

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that...
PHILLIP C. MCGRAW

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.
PHILLIP C. MCGRAW

I didn't just come in on a load of turnips!
PHILLIP C. MCGRAW

Why, you'll be 'changed, m'dear. We'll just swap you for a human child who'll make a good servant to...
ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW

Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.
ELOISE JARVIS MCGRAW

Awareness without action is worthless.
PHILLIP C. MCGRAW

We are creatures of habit, and we do what we know how to do. And if you're gonna change the momentum...
DR. PHIL MCGRAW

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON

What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

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John McGraw

In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.

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