Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“To keep the five guys who hate you away from the other five guys who are undecided.”
Billy Martin (1928–1989) American baseball player and coach
On the secrets of managing; as quoted in "Once Over Lightly" by Van Thomas, in The Longview News-Journal (March 5, 1974), p. 1-B
Jimmy Stewart (1908–1997) American film and stage actor
On roles he looks for, as quoted in "Hollywood legend Jimmy Stewart dead at 89" at CNN (2 July 1997) http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9707/02/stewart.obit.7p/
“The enlisted guys will be okay, but the officers get the sense of humor trained out of ’em.”
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Leviathan Wakes (2011), Chapter 11 (p. 113)
“Okay you guys, pair up in threes!”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All, Simon and Schuster, 2003, , p. 123.
Yogiisms
Variant: Pair up in threes.
“What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy’s point of view.”
Arthur C. Clarke book The Light of Other Days
Source: The Light of Other Days (2000), Chapter 5
John Wayne (1907–1979) American film actor
Source: Speaking in 1958 with Charles Hamblett; as quoted in The Hollywood Cage (1969) by Hamblett, reproduced in "The Hollywood Cage': Wayne Has Method, Goldwyn Has Hope, Welles Has Wasteland" by Hamblett, The Philadelphia Inquirer (May 4, 1969), p. 109
Context: That's the John Wayne method.
Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=2083509&type=story
On boxing
Bill Bailey (1965) English comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter and author
Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra (2008)
