SportByte Archives
April 2011
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Posted 04.30.11
"Only boring people find baseball boring."
Peter Golenbach, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.29.11
"It would be a real misfortune to lose so
manly and vigorous a game as football..."
Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.28.11
"Monday Night Football..." Camille Paglia,
writer and feminist, when asked her favorite TV
show [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.27.11
"Everybody loves a gambler, until he
loses..." Vince Lombardi, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.26.11
"The secret is watching the center and
going with the snap..." Nate Allen, football
player, on blocking punts and field goals [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.25.11
"He was sometimes unbearable, but he was
never dull..." Ed Linn, sportswriter, on
baseball player Ted Williams [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.24.11
"Winning is like shaving. You do it every
day, or you end up looking like a bum..." Jack
Kemp, football player, U.S. congressman and U.S.
cabinet member [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.23.11
"Just a fad passing fancy..." Philip
Wrigley, team owner, on baseball games played
after dark under the lights [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.22.11
"If they took away our sticks and gave us
brooms, we'd still fight..." Phil Esposito,
hockey player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.21.11
"There are two kinds of coaches. The kind
that have just been fired and the kind that are
going to get fired..." Bum Phillips, football
coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.20.11
"It was a storm precisely like this one
that saved England from the Spanish Armada..."
Ted Turner, yachtsman, baseball owner and cable
TV pioneer, on the storm that struck a 1979
English Channel yacht race [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.19.11
"Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but
good shortstops are hard to find..." Charles
O. Finley, baseball team owner [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.18.11
"I made some mistakes my immaturity is
the one thing that sticks out but I've learned
a lot. Sometimes that takes time..." Kerry
Collins, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.17.11
"If Howard Cosell was a sport, it would be
Roller Derby..." Jimmy Cannon, sportswriter,
on the controversial broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.16.11
"I'm sick of people talking about money,
money, money all the time..." Shaquille
O'Neal, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.15.11
"The ball sailed so high that when it came
down it was coated with ice." Bill McGeehan,
sportswriter, on one of Babe Ruth's home runs [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.14.11
"There's a foot difference between a halo
and a noose..." Bobby Bowden, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.13.11
"DiMaggio's streak is the most
extraordinary thing that ever happened in
American sports..." Steven Jay Gould, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.12.11
"Confidence is a lot of this game or any
game. If you don't think you can win, you
won't..." Jerry West, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.11.11
"When the astronauts walked on the moon I
figured we had a chance to win. Nothing seemed
impossible after that..." Tug McGraw, pitcher,
describing the 'Miracle Mets' of 1969 [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.10.11
"You couldn't play on my 'Amazing Mets'
without having held some kind of record, like
one fella held the world's international
all-time record for a pitcher getting hit on the
ankles..." Casey Stengel, baseball manager [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.09.11
"A lot of parents think kids ought to learn
responsibility from work, and I've always said,
'Baloney.' Kids learn leadership and
organization from games, from having fun..."
John Madden, football coach and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.08.11
"I don't need to be practicing, I'm leading
this tournament. You guys go on and practice,
because you're behind..." Lee Trevino, golfer,
to fellow competitors after a good first round [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.07.11
"That boy is too clumsy and too slow..."
Branch Rickey, baseball executive, on
then-unknown prospect Yogi Berra [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.06.11
"If you're a gymnast something is always
hurting, but you still train. You just have to
learn to live with discomfort..." Mary Lou
Retton, Olympic gold medalist [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.05.11
"The way to make coaches think you're in
shape in the spring is to get a tan..." Whitey
Ford, baseball player, on Spring Training [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.04.11
"It's in the mindset of the players and
managers to cheat whenever they get a chance.
They believe it is the equivalent of their First
Amendment right to cheat..." Durwood Merrill,
umpire [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.03.11
"The reasons I was playing the game have
always been the same. The game was all I cared
about; it never felt like a job..." Dennis
Rodman, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.02.11
"If the on-deck batter is standing too
close to home plate, you brush him back..."
Brent Kemnitz, Wichita State baseball coach, who
was suspended after one of his pitchers ended
the career of an on-deck batter with a beanball [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.01.11
"You would have to take a stun gun or
whatever and shoot him to get him off that
court. He's going to leave it all out there..."
Jeff Van Gundy, basketball coach, on Patrick
Ewing, basketball player, who played a game with
a torn Achilles tendon and led his team to a win [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
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