Alan Chadwick Quotations

Scottish Theatre's greatest success story of recent times.

I like using one QB. If we have two that are relatively equal, then we can't afford to have one on the bench. They need to be on the field at running back, receiver or defensive back. I'm not going to waste an athlete on the sidelines.

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

We need to create the beauty and the quality first. The quantity will follow.

There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance.

Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows.

Patience is not a virtue!

Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor.

The term biodynamics - push it aside, it is verbosity. It doesn't matter a bit. One has to use words to make headings, that's all it is. It's rather like the stupidity in a picture gallery today where you have to write under it what the scene or person is. It is equally as nonsensical as that. Therefore to talk about biodynamic gardening, biodynamic horticulture, biodynamic agriculture and the French intensive system is merely a horrible heading of terminology.

It was a good opportunity to give everyone a chance to play, and we got to work on things, especially offensively, ... Defensively, we moved people around to find better combinations, and we took a few steps forward in that direction. It keeps everyone motivated.