Mike Ditka Quotes

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

I'm not accepting of whiners.

Everybody hates a whiner.

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

Reporters aren't actually people!

I've eaten things that didn't complain this much.

I was a bad journalist.

I don't like freeloaders; I don't like people who are negative.

I'm an inexperienced reporter, and I'm still learning.

I hate golf. I do not understand how anyone can enjoy it, much less love it.

I am not one of the great journalists of my time.

I don't do interviews at home any more because my wife doesn't like having her taste in interiors put through the mill. And I get annoyed when journalists make snide remarks about the annoyingly pretentious shops in the neighbourhood - because I hate them just as much.

Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

The hardest thing in the world is to write something critical about someone and then show up the next day in the locker room. I mean, that is not fun, and that takes an awful lot of guts. And I never enjoyed that.

When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.

I'm not a sportswriter.

I think people like to have something to have a moan about.

I don't like Larry Merchant. He thinks he knows everything about a sport that he was never in. He walks around with papers and studies what he writes, he just pisses you off.

It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things.

Complaining is the favorite pastime of millions.

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

Umpiring, the only job in the world where you can screw up on a daily basis and still have one!

Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.