Edward Bennett Williams's Quotes

I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.

In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss.

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

They don't need a lawyer, they need a toastmaster.

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

You understand, of course, that I can only get you access.

Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew.

I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I probably play it the way I do.

My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.