1.
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
Abe Lemons
2.
You mean in the state?
Abe Lemons
3.
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.
Abe Lemons
4.
We did have three go to the YMCA.
Abe Lemons
5.
They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.
Abe Lemons
6.
Coaches who shoot par in the summer are the guys I want on my schedule in the winter.
Abe Lemons
7.
You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.
Abe Lemons
8.
Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.
Abe Lemons
9.
Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.
Abe Lemons
10.
If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules.'
Abe Lemons
11.
I'd rather be a football coach. That way you only lose eleven games a year.
Abe Lemons
12.
I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?
Abe Lemons
13.
Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.
Abe Lemons
14.
You always catch the wrong players.
Abe Lemons
15.
I don't have any tricky plays. I'd rather have tricky players.
Abe Lemons