20 Quotes & Sayings By Will Cuppy

Will Cuppy is a former professional football player and a two-time All-American at the University of Tennessee. He went on to have a distinguished twenty-year career as a professional defensive lineman in the NFL, winning two Super Bowls with the Pittsburgh Steelers with whom he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1980. In his professional football career, Cuppy was named to the NFL's All-Time Team and was voted among the NFL's Top 50 Players of All-Time. He is coauthor of The Total Football Handbook, which is considered by many as the definitive book on football strategy.

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of...
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Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts. Will Cuppy
He had also learned that there is no use murdering...
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He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done. Will Cuppy
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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose. Will Cuppy
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Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same. Will Cuppy
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Would it not be downright cruel to keep him in semi-captivity in a town or city, where the opportunities for wreaking havoc and destruction upon the landscape are necessarily so limited? In a word, is it right to attract Wombats? Will Cuppy
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The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say. Will Cuppy
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You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people. Will Cuppy
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A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You can find out which ones these are by prodding them. Will Cuppy
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There are 2, 500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes. Will Cuppy
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Whales are silly once every two years. The young are called short-heads or baby blimps. Many whale romances begin in Baffin's bay and end in Procter and Gamble's factory, Staten Island. Will Cuppy
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As llamas have never heard of oxygen, they do not miss it. Will Cuppy
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Infant wart hogs resemble both sides of the family. Will Cuppy
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If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. Will Cuppy
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Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. Will Cuppy
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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour. Will Cuppy
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Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential. Will Cuppy
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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people. Will Cuppy
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If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence. Will Cuppy
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Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something. Will Cuppy