Sounds like he could have been great(er) than he was if he took some personal responsibility. Well, that and pool balls don't move unlike a baseball.“I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?” – Yogi Berra
Sounds like he could have been great(er) than he was if he took some personal responsibility. Well, that and pool balls don't move unlike a baseball.
It's a fun quote but I see it weakening one's game if they can't build up mental strength to admit they f###ed up and learn to fix the problem for good.
I get a real chuckle out of pool player excuses, someone should write a comedy book about them. My favorite is to blame the humidity, this gets everyone who over analyzes into over analyzing mode. Or if they make an excuse just agree with them. "Yeah I noticed the table rolled off too, glad you noticed I thought I was imagining things!"
Can be quite ignorant considering the tender love and care bestowed upon it... much like my exI talk to the balls and they don't listen.
I sing to my cue but it don't care.
I can think of one or two snooker players who get a lot of talk because they have changed every couple of years or so... Can think of hundreds who are using the same cue, or cue made to the same spec as one they learned the game with...IMO, pick one and get used to it.
I’ve told this to a couple of guys recently who were showing up with a different setup every time we played. One guy was actually repeatedly changing cues and shafts mid session (including switching between wood and CF shafts). We’d get down to the last few balls and he’d look lost in the woods and against my better judgement I told him what I thought the root of his problem (and repeated losses) was.
Lou Figueroa
pick one
any one
I think he knew something of personal responsibility after the Normandy landings. I didn’t know a lot about him until I saw the excellent documentary on him. Also didn’t know he didn’t fill out the paperwork for a Purple Heart because he didn’t want his mother to be notified and worry. I speculate it might be because he had to have seen so much worse than his wound. He was a great player and I think your shot is unwarranted. I didn’t check how many games he caught on average per season. August double headers, World Series after a full season etc…. Now I don’t think you meant it personally as to him, but I think the quote illustrates a psychological trait many greats have , even if it sounds delusional. Also, I think sometimes the humor of his quotes can lead to underestimating him.Sounds like he could have been great(er) than he was if he took some personal responsibility. Well, that and pool balls don't move unlike a baseball.
It's a fun quote but I see it weakening one's game if they can't build up mental strength to admit they f###ed up and learn to fix the problem for good.
I get a real chuckle out of pool player excuses, someone should write a comedy book about them. My favorite is to blame the humidity, this gets everyone who over analyzes into over analyzing mode. Or if they make an excuse just agree with them. "Yeah I noticed the table rolled off too, glad you noticed I thought I was imagining things!"
Kinda like Earl having a ball rack full of cue balls by his table at home. When he hits a bad shot or two, he blames the cueball for acting funny and swaps it out for a different one. One of the more entertaining parts of his YouTube videos...especially cuz that cueball that was acting funny just goes back in the rack with the rest of his cueball collection to be pulled out and used when another cueball fails to behave just as he imagines it should.“I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?” – Yogi Berra
My favorite 'Yogi-ism' was attributed to him while watching a Humphrey Bogart movie with Mickey Mantle and Billy Martin some time after Bogart's death-- 'they must've filmed this before he died'.Perhaps it's an age thing here...the young no longer remembering Yogi? Now famed for his "Yogi quotes"...a very quick wit. With this one, he was being funny and sarcastic. After all, they don't hire dummies to manage big league teams. He was one of my childhood heroes... I'll turn 80 next month, God willing.
It was tongue in cheek. Dry humor doesn't always translate over plain text on the internet. Obviously he was one of the greats.He was a great player and I think your shot is unwarranted.