Marv Quotes

A good education prepares you well for anything. ~ Marv Levy

I feel I'm better now than I ever have been. You learn so much as you're doing it. I'm watching tapes and I'll see things that get me annoyed and where I know I can improve. I understand better letting the crowd play more. I've always said it was important for me who I was working with, because I like to kid around a lot. But I've also learned to use my partner better. I'm feeling good. There's no reason to stop. ~ Marv Albert

People sometimes ask me to name the greatest coach in NFL history. George Halas may have set the standard, but Don Shula has won more games than anyone, and he has done it in the most competitive era. He had an incomparable ability to evaluate players, to motivate them, and to teach them the game of football. ~ Marv Levy

Most people think Marv is crazy, but I don't believe that.
I'm no shrink and I'm not saying I've got Marv all figured out or anything, but "crazy" just doesn't explain him. Not to me. Sometimes I think he's retarded, a big, brutal kid who never learned the ground rules about how people are supposed to act around each other. But that doesn't have the right ring to it either. No, it's more like there's nothing wrong with Marv, nothing at all
except that he had the rotten luck of being born at the wrong time in history. He'd have been okay if he'd been born a couple of thousand years ago. He'd be right at home on some ancient battlefield, swinging an ax into somebody's face. Or in a roman arena, taking a sword to other gladiators like him.
They'd have tossed him girls like Nancy, back then. ~ Frank Miller

With you guys, it seems like I'm hot stuff … a know-it-all … but I've been back with The Batman again, and next to him I feel like I'm a stupid kid repeating fifth grade … for the third time. ~ Marv Wolfman

(after Monster T shot himself)
"Smart guy," Joker said, and he laughed. "Lotta brains. ~ Marv Wolfman

Superior athletes want to be accountable for their own results. - ~ Marv Dunphy

Hello, madness, my old friend. * ~ Marv Wolfman

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning. ~ Marv Levy

There are people in New York who feel I should have more of a hometown approach. I feel we have to be a mirror and reflect what's happening on the court. ~ Marv Albert

If you believe you are doing a good job in which you enjoy and like, then don't resign regardless of the pressures. ~ Marv Levy

My father Sam, by his lifelong example, displayed for me the virtues of an honest day's work and of great personal courage. ~ Marv Levy

If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you. ~ Marv Levy

A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you. ~ Marv Levy

You're looking...good enough to eat. Figuratively speaking, I'm strictly vegan. ~ Marv Wolfman

If Justin Beiber was 7 feet tall, he'd look like [Meyers Leonard] that. ~ Marv Albert

Growing up knowing that I wanted to be a sportscaster and knowing that the best school in the country was right in my back yard, I certainly knew all there was to know about Marty Glickman and about people like Bob Costas and Marv Albert and all of the other greats that have passed through there. ~ Beth Mowins

If we control the ball, they pay. ~ Marv Dunphy

Security comes from earning it-not seeking it. ~ Marv Levy

Sure education is valuable in any respect regardless of what field you are in. ~ Marv Levy

So, when I spotted a cougar stretched out on a thick pine tree branch near the park gates, I wasn't surprised. I can't say the same for the women clinging to the branch above the cat. she was the one screaming. The cougar-a ragged-ear old top I clled Marv-just stared at her, like he couldn't believe anyone would be dumb to climb a tree to escape a cat. ~ Kelley Armstrong

My father was an athlete, a great athlete, fought in the Marines in World War I. He was all sports and activity. My mother was all academics. I still have the complete works of Shakespeare that she had. ~ Marv Levy

World War II was a must win. ~ Marv Levy

I wanted to be Marv Albert or Bob Costas. Those were my favorites growing up. Still are! ~ Dave Pasch

Actually, I'm working on a book of poetry. ~ Marv Levy

I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away. ~ Marv Levy

I know that you are a mere flea! I know that you need only be squashed to be done away with! I know that I have fought this same battle a thousand thousand times before ... but, perhaps this time I can crush you like the insect you are! ~ Marv Wolfman

Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those. ~ Marv Levy

Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst. ~ Marv Wolfman

I don't know exactly what are you supposed to do when you retire. Lie on the couch and do nothing? I didn't want to do that. ~ Marv Levy

Every profession has changed. Journalism has changed. Medicine has changed. Technology has changed and it evolves. The same is true of football. Free agency has now allowed teams to be a dynasty as they have been before. It is not a great thing for the fans, but it is a good thing for the players. ~ Marv Levy

I have stayed active. I do keep moving. But I should start swimming more. Great exercise. ~ Marv Levy

I'm about 75 pages into a book on poetry. I don't know if anybody wants to read it. It's on any broad variety of subjects. I walk down the street and think of a topic and jot it down and say, 'Okay, that's another one.' They go from the humorous to the serious to every topic imaginable. ~ Marv Levy

What you do should speak so loudly that no one will hear what you say. ~ Marv Levy

My strong game was ping pong. Relentless ... steady. ~ Marv Albert

For a long time, I was an assistant in the NFL to George Allen, and George was paranoid that other teams were cheating on him ... that they were offering bounties, that they were wiring our locker room, that they were putting food poisoning into the pregame meal of the other team's stars, stuff like that. ~ Marv Levy

Age is inevitable. Aging isn't. ~ Marv Levy

Phil Jackson would fight his own players in practice. ~ Marv Albert

Adversity is an opportunity for heroism. ~ Marv Levy

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine. ~ Marv Levy

Three, maybe four times a week, I run for 30 minutes. If I don't run, I'm out for a brisk walk at least an hour every day. ~ Marv Levy

Chronological age is only an approximation of your functional age. ~ Marv Levy

I feel very fortunate that I'm doing what I wanted to do from the third grade on. I became very interested in the sports broadcasting aspect even at that early age. I'd turn down the sound on the TV and do games in my house - and probably get everybody looking for me to go into a room and lock the door so they didn't have to hear it. ~ Marv Albert

Steve Kerr, now coaching Golden State after eight tumultuous and very inconsistent years at TNT. ~ Marv Albert

With villains you always have to understand what motivates them. Most people don't just think they're evil. They believe or know they are doing the right thing because of the circumstances they find themselves in. Or they are overwhelmed by circumstances and can't stop what they'll do next. ~ Marv Wolfman

I just want people to finish the book and say, 'I was entertained.' When I set out to do it, I had no deal in place. I knew it would be tough. I read somewhere that John Steinbeck was turned down 22 times on his first novel. But I was just going to do it. ~ Marv Levy

I never have suspected or sensed a whiff of cheating in any of our Super Bowls. ~ Marv Levy

I don't know why you decided to wear that costume, but it makes you a symbol. Just as Robin was a symbol. Or Superman, or Nightwing, or the policeman who wears his uniform. And this isn't just a symbol of the law, it's a symbol of justice. When one policeman is killed, others take his place because justice can't be stopped. ~ Marv Wolfman

As coaches, we learn to accept criticism for our decisions. If a writer says you shouldn't have gone for it on fourth-and-one, we understand that's part of the job. We expect it. ~ Marv Levy

If I had coached in high school for 60 years, I would have loved it. Getting to the top was not a goal. I welcomed the opportunities, but I just believed do the best doggone job you can, and good things will happen. ~ Marv Levy

Are you any relation to your brother Marv? ~ Leon Wood

Systems don't win, players do. ~ Marv Levy

How close, Frost?"
"Real close, boss. I swear on my life."
Joker slowly looked up, eyes glistening with black hope. The fire in his madness was still burning.
"If you're going to swear, swear on something that matters. ~ Marv Wolfman

The 16 years have gone so fast. I came to Minnesota as a 19-year-old kid. Marv Grissom was the pitching coach, an old-timer who taught me quite a bit. Marv didn't like the way I stepped toward the plate. I had a tendency to throw across my body. So, he took me off to the side at Met Stadium and put a chair on the mound. If I threw across my body, I would step on the chair. Marv was trying to hurt me. I fooled him. I started stepping the right way. ~ Bert Blyleven

Marv stared at his phone. Kids these days. It was like on that day in school when they taught personal responsibility, this entire fucking generation had banged in sick. ~ Dennis Lehane

Who the hell is Warren Ellis again?"
Hardison gaped at the man. "Only one of the greatest comics writers in the past twenty years. Might as well ask who Alan Moore is, or Frank Miller, or Mark Waid, or Brian Michael Bendis, or Marv Wolfman, or Geoff Johns."

Eliot gave Hardison a blank look as they wove their way through the hall. Parker took the lead, toting a printed sign with her. Eliot and Hardison trailed in her wake. They made a point of striding right past Patronus's booth. They didn't turn to see if he noticed them.

"No one?" Hardison said. "Nothing? Not even Kurt Busiek? Neil Gaiman?"

"I have a life. I do things, active things. I date women."
"Stan Lee?"

Eliot gave Hardison that one with a wag of his head. "Who hasn't heard of Stan Lee?"

"All right," Hardison said with satisfaction. "You had me worried there, man. ~ Matt Forbeck

Bill Polian and I agreed when we first came together with the Buffalo Bills that we'd bring players only of high character to the team. ~ Marv Levy

I went off to Harvard Law School for six weeks, and then I said, 'Doggone this, it's not what I want to do.' I remember when I told my dad I was leaving law school, and I wanted to go into football. He said, 'Be a good coach.' ~ Marv Levy

When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us. ~ Marv Levy

I don't know if there ever has been anyone in the NFL who plays his position as well as Steve Tasker. ~ Marv Levy

I exercise, walk a lot, and break into the occasional trot. I also lift weights three days a week, and I like to read about what makes a good diet. Overall, I do follow a healthy lifestyle. ~ Marv Levy

I would never scream at my kids, never raise my voice. But as they often tell me, they were so well behaved that screaming was not necessary. ~ Marv Albert

I am going to miss Don Shula. I like him, and I admire him. I'm going to miss looking those 53 yards across the field and thinking, 'There is a coaching legend.' ~ Marv Levy

You adhere to a philosophy, but part of the philosophy I have is that I don't want to be too doggone inflexible that I miss a good player. ~ Marv Levy

This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl) ~ Marv Levy

There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense. ~ Marv Levy

I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times. ~ Marv Levy

Doctor Harleen Quinzel, one of Arkham's most brilliant and dedicated psychiatrists, was no more. Electroshock. What a wonderful way of destroying a soul, the Joker thought as he watched Quinzel's eyes roll up into their sockets and dribble pour from between her lips. ~ Marv Wolfman

Judenhass is endlessly disturbing, often unpleasant and incessantly horrifying in its stark coldness. The quotes should never be forgotten or made light of. It is why all people of good will say, 'Never again.' ~ Marv Wolfman

I want to build a team," she explained, "of very bad people who I think can do some good - like fight our next war, or defeat the next Superman. ~ Marv Wolfman

In my mind, continuity means the best writer at a company is held hostage by the worst. ~ Marv Wolfman

Teaching is very important. The nature of your personality isn't that important. Lombardi was very extraverted, very bombastic. Landry very quiet, reserved. Both were great teachers and great coaches. ~ Marv Levy

I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager. ~ Marv Albert

Nancy's got a guardian angel. Seven feet plus of muscle and mayhem that goes by the name of Marv. ~ Frank Miller

Working with the kind of talent that I've gotten to work with, like the cast of Sin City, it makes me think probably more fully dimensionally about what is going on behind their eyes. But I draw the way I draw, and ain't nothing gonna change that. Although, I draw Marv and I think, "Boy, I could throw a little Mickey [Rourke] in there." ~ Frank Miller

Where else would you rather be than right here, right now? ~ Marv Levy

I've always felt that I shouldn't scream on the air ... I just feel there's a way of rising enthusiastically if there's an exciting play, but you don't have to scream. There are people who do shout, and I think that's unnecessary. You have to be under control at all times, no matter what's taking place. Enthusiasm and excitement can be expressed without going berserk. ~ Marv Albert

In animation, you may be working with 20 writers, and everybody has to write the same thing. You can't have episodes that don't feel like they belong. In comics, you're gonna write a whole run, which means it's your style that's coming through. But when you're working on a show that's collaborated with a dozen other writers, you have to have a style that blends the show together. So you can't write it the way you normally would, because your script will stand out from all the others. ~ Marv Wolfman

As much as I enjoy TV, I've always loved radio. And I love doing the NFL games, the Monday night games, on radio. Because you are the game. I really enjoyed calling basketball and hockey on the radio, but the presentation is more specific - you're talking all the time. ~ Marv Albert

Flag: What are you really up to?

Waller: You want the big picture?

Flag: No, I like being fed a steady stream of crap and kept in the dark like a mushroom. ~ Marv Wolfman

If you have everything prepared, the rest will take care of itself. ~ Marv Levy

How's yours?" inquires Marv soon after. "Or more to the point, what is it?"
"Eggs and cheese and something."
"Do you even like eggs?"
"No."
"Then why'd you get it?"
"Well, it didn't look like eggs when it was on that other guy's plate."
"Fair enough. You want some of mine? ~ Markus Zusak

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans. ~ Marv Albert

Buildings had collapsed-once tall and mighty, now headstones for the thousands buried underneath. ~ Marv Wolfman

To me, doing the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona for NBC, just seeing the Dream Team take the floor, was a thrill for me. I don't think there was another team in any sport with that high level of athletes playing together. ~ Marv Albert