Best Lacrosse Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Until box lacrosse grows in the United States, it'll continue to be this way.”

Way States Grows United United States Boxes Lacrosse

“If I was US Lacrosse, I wouldn't let any kids play field until they were 10 or 12.”

“The goals for Virginia lacrosse don't change a lot from year to year. We look at the lineup, start every year on Sept. 1 with the realistic goal to play at the end of the season, the very last game. This team has the talent to be able to do that.”

Years Looks Ends Play Able Lasts Games Goal Team Talent Seasons Realistic Virginia Don't Change Lacrosse Realistic Goals

Author:Dom Starsia

“American field players would really help themselves if they were exposed to a steady stream of box experience. Box lacrosse is an extremely valuable background for a young player, we need to incorporate more of the indoor skills in to the field game. It is almost a requirement to have a top player with indoor experience on your roster right now.”

Ifs Needs Helping Young Games Player Fields Right Now Skills Boxes Valuable Backgrounds Streams Exposed Steady Requirements Lacrosse Rosters

Author:Dom Starsia

“I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.”

Years Play Kids Games Team Streets College Son Picks Decided Let Me Parks My Son Hockey Backup Lacrosse Goalies Hockey Team Riverside

Author:John Katzman

“You can play lacrosse all over the world provided you know where the goalposts are.”

Knows World Play Lacrosse

Book:Peter Greenaway: Interviews

Source: Peter Greenaway: Interviews

“I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.”

Bigs Age Lasts Young Games Goal Baseball Strikes Score Hockey Young Age Counting Teammate Baseball Games Playing Baseball Lacrosse Playing Hockey

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.”

“One of the biggest benefits of playing box for a young lacrosse player is in the development of lacrosse IQ. Because everyone plays with a short stick [in box lacrosse], you have to focus on being a complete lacrosse player versus specializing as an attackman or d-man. That is how your IQ grows and skills improve.”

Men Play Young Grows Focus Player Development Skills Benefits Sticks Boxes Versus Lacrosse Lacrosse Players

Author:Peter Lawrence

“Adolescents have the right to be themselves. The fact that you were the belle of the ball, the captain of the lacrosse team, the president of your senior class, Phi Beta Kappa, or a political activist doesn't mean that your teenager will be or should be the same....Likewise, the fact that you were a wallflower, uncoordinated, and a C student shouldn't mean that you push your child to be everything you were not.”

Source: You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25

“Football is definitely a team sport. Without one person doing the right thing, the whole team falls. At Navy and in lacrosse, the off-the-field leadership comes into play, you know so if one person is slacking off, weve got everyone making sure everyone is pulling their own weight. Its like that in football too.”

Ifs Knows Persons Play Whole Fall Sports Team Fields Football Weight Right Thing Pulling Navy Doing The Right Thing Sports Team Lacrosse Slacking

Author:Sean Price

“I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.”

Thinking Inspirational Football Basketball Athlete Track Ran Brown Lacrosse Syracuse

Author:Will McDonough

“I played lacrosse for a hot second, but I was mainly a swimmer - captain of my swim team.”

Team Hot Swim Captains Swimmer Lacrosse Swim Team

Author:Grace Gummer

“I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.”

School Girl Fields Hockey Private School Lacrosse Field Hockey

Author:Nicole Ari Parker

“First, my congratulations to Yale on their success this year. The more film we watched, the more we realized what a good lacrosse team they were. They don't have any weaknesses. We told the guys all week long, we're going to have to roll up our sleeves and work hard to get this one. Congrats to them for their season.”

Years Firsts Long Hard Film Guy Week Team Hard Work Weakness Seasons Congratulations Sleeves Yale Lacrosse Congrats

Author:John Desko

“I think this is our ninth one-goal game this year. We lost three by one and this is our sixth win by one. Unfortunately, the guys are used to being in these kinds of situations and made some pretty good adjustments down the stretch to win the game. I thought our defense played great all game long. While we didn't have it at one half, we picked it up on the other side of the field. I'm proud of the guys. Any win this time of year is a great win.”

Thinking Years Kind Long Made Used Guy Three Games Winning Lost Sides Goal Half Situation Fields Proud Defense Adjustment One Half Lacrosse

Author:John Desko

“We got the goals early in the game and I thought we just got a little too comfortable with things. They started changing their defense, they started going from a zone defense to a man-to-man and doing different things. We got sloppy, and I give them credit for the way they played. We got sloppy and had some turnovers there. We did have some opportunities, one-on-one with the goalie in the second there, but we need to finish things. They found some momentum in their defense and were able to crawl back in.”

Men Way Needs Giving Littles Different Able Found Opportunity Games Goal Comfortable Credit Defense Zone Different Things Momentum Sloppy One On One Lacrosse Turnover Goalies

Author:John Desko

“I think we came out and got the first goals fairly easily and fairly quickly. All of a sudden they started to change the defense and they changed things up on us and I thought we got a little too comfortable. I give their goalie credit, he made some very good saves, but we just wanted to score. We changed some things halfway through the fourth quarter and we were able to generate some shots. I think for most of the year we've been good on offense. We haven't really struggled like that. We knew coming into the season that we'd have to share the ball on offense and really be efficient.”

“We knew they were going to be coming at us. I think they got their first two goals by getting underneath us in the crease. The first two goals really picked them up. Dom (Lamolinara) just stood on his head when we needed him with that doorstop save and the last pass with four seconds left. Defensively we're just jelling and we've just got to keep moving.”

Thinking Firsts Two Lasts Moving Left Goal Four Needed Seconds Keep Moving Lacrosse Doms

Author:John Desko

“We can't be satisfied as a team. We have one goal in mind right now and it's the next game. We want to get to the championship. We have to come out in practice and get after each other. There can't be any letdowns, we have to keep going.”

Want Mind Next Games Goal Practice Team Right Now Satisfied Keep Going Championship Lacrosse Letdowns

Author:John Desko

“I think my boys handled it pretty much the same way with their children, but my grandsons all ended up playing football or lacrosse.”

Thinking Way Children Boys Football My Boys Playing Football Grandson Lacrosse

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“I have a couple [of grandsons] that are in college playing lacrosse. It's great and it's fun. But they all also play golf a little bit.”

Littles Play Fun Bits College Couple Little Bit Golf Grandson Lacrosse

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“We don't play golf often [with kids] because they don't play that much anymore - because their kids don't play. It's like anything else - fathers these days end up in the parks on the weekends and they have their kids into lacrosse or soccer or whatever it might be.”

Ends Play Might Kids Father Golf Soccer These Days Parks Weekend Lacrosse

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“You will agree that the Duke Lacrosse team raped and damaged or whatever, even though it didn't happen. You will be made to agree. You will understand that there is going to be amnesty and you will love it and you will stop speaking out against it. And until you do, you are in our crosshairs. It's who they are. That is the modern-day Democrat Party, and certainly that is the attitude of their major donors.”

Made Happens Party Attitude Team Modern Majors Agree Democrat Dukes Donors Speaking Out Amnesty Modern Day Lacrosse

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.”

School Sports Fields Grew Terrible Grew Up Hockey Playing Fields Preps Lacrosse Field Hockey

Author:Julie Bowen

“Of course, the downside of attending a fictional school is that our lacrosse team sucks.”

School Courses Team Attending Lacrosse

Book:Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.”

People World Shows Success Sports Pride Prove Athlete Driven Enormous Champion Motivational Sports Lacrosse

Author:Nancy Lopez

“There are guys who play lacrosse, and there are lacrosse players.”

Play Guy Sports Player Motivational Sports Lacrosse Lacrosse Players

Author:Brendan Mundorf

“I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.”

Bigs Fields Baseball Seasons Winter Track Believer Soccer Over You Hockey Hung Skates Track And Field Lacrosse

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.”

Sports Church Motivational Sports Funny Sports Funniest Sports Lacrosse Lax Lacrosse Players

Author:Robin Williams

“There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.”

Men Challenges Greatness Like You Circumstances Diversity Ordinary Great Men Volunteer Ordinary People Ordinary Man Admiral Character Education Lacrosse

Author:William Halsey

“Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.”

Different Share Diversity Rivers Human Rights Boat Brotherhood Indigenous Unity In Diversity Indigenous People Lacrosse

Author:Oren Lyons

“I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest.”

Littles Bigs Running Guy Sticks Pockets Chests Big Guys Lacrosse

Author:Jim Brown

“I could fully express myself in lacrosse.”

Lacrosse

Author:Jim Brown

“...you could be the best team or the best player in different generations and people respect each other. Nobody cares who was the best.”

People Different Care Player Generations Team Being The Best Best Players Best Team Nobody Cares Lacrosse Respect Each Other Different Generations

Author:Jim Brown

“Lacrosse is probably the best sport I ever played.”

Sports Best Sports Lacrosse

Author:Jim Brown

“I could run 200 yards at a stretch, I could duck between players, I felt free to make plays that suited me best. It wasn't like football then and basketball today, where coaches tell you what foot to put down.”

Play Running Today Felt Player Feet Football Basketball Coaches Ducks Yards Lacrosse

Author:Jim Brown

“There was no publicity. You had to like it. There was no pressure, just great competition. The attitude of the coaches and players was exceptional.”

Attitude Player Pressure Competition Coaches Exceptional Publicity Coaches And Players Lacrosse No Pressure Lacrosse Players

Author:Jim Brown

“I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.”

Long School Games Conditions High School Aspect Sticks Islands Juniors Junior High Long Island Forte Lacrosse High School Junior

Author:Jim Brown

“Twenty years ago people thought they were fishing nets and all sorts of things when you brought out a lacrosse stick. Now almost everywhere you go, people have heard of it, they've seen it and they're like, "Oh, that's sport I saw on TV or my grandson plays that," and it's changed the face of the game and potential of the future.”

People Years Play Faces Games Sports Saws Heard Changed Tvs Years Ago Twenties Sticks Fishing Grandson Lacrosse

Author:Gary Gait

“We're doing our homework to make sure we're prepared.”

Prepared Homework Lacrosse

Author:Gary Gait

“When you talk about Lacrosse, you talk about the lifeblood of the six nations. The game is ingrained into our culture and our system and our lives. (the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora)”

Culture Games Nations Our Lives Six Lacrosse Lax Mohawks

Author:Oren Lyons

“There are two times of the year that stir the blood. In the fall, for the hunt, and now for lacrosse.”

Years Two Fall Blood Hunting Hunts Lacrosse

Author:Oren Lyons

“The last thing we can afford right now is to make excuses. We're inexperienced at some spots, that's the way it is. We have injuries, so does everyone, that's the way it is.”

Way Doe Lasts Right Now Excuse Spots Injury Lacrosse

Author:Dave Pietramala

“I'd rather play lacrosse six days a week and football on the seventh.”

Play Week Football Six Lacrosse

Author:Jim Brown

“Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball.”

Inspirational Sports Car Planets Basketball Plus Bumper Awesome Sports Lacrosse Most Awesome

Author:St. Vincent

“It's lacrosse that helped teach me to spin off checks, take shots and protect the puck under pressure. My stick skills, the way to read the play quickly comes from lacrosse. The hand-eye coordination, is just one of the little things that helps you in hockey.”

Way Littles Play Helping Hands Eye Teach Protect Skills Shots Pressure Sticks Checks Just One Little Things Hockey Under Pressure Puck Coordination Lacrosse

Author:John Tavares

“Being a part of the finesse and physicality of box lacrosse has been a great experience for me. I feel that I have learned and improved as an overall lacrosse player. Learning to adapt in tight space while reading defenders and offensive players has been the biggest improvement in my game.”

Feels Has Beens Reading Games Space Player Boxes Improvement I Have Learned Offensive Defenders Physicality Great Experiences Finesse Lacrosse Lacrosse Players Tight Spaces

Author:Paul Rabil

“If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players.”

Ifs War Player Lacrosse Lacrosse Players

Author:Conn Smythe

“Hurling looks a bit like a cross between lacrosse and second degree murder.”

Looks Bits Degrees Crosses Murder Lacrosse Hurling

Author:David Feherty

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