SportByte™ Archives — June 2015
Posted 06.30.15 — "To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies." — Red Auerbach, basketball coach and team executive [Quotes from Red Auerbach]

Posted 06.29.15 — "People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society." — Vince Lombardi, football coach [Quotes from Vince Lombardi]

Posted 06.28.15 — "You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake." — Sam Snead, professional golfer [Golf Quotes from Sam Snead]

Posted 06.27.15 — "It ain't braggin' if you can back it up." — Dizzy Dean, baseball pitcher [Baseball Quotes from Dizzy Dean]

Posted 06.26.15 — "Not after all the time my dad spent teaching me to switch-hit." — Mickey Mantle, baseball player, to a sportswriter who suggested that Mantle become a full-time right-handed batter after injuries hampered him from the left side [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.25.15 — "You look up and down the bench and you have to say to yourself, 'Can't anybody here play this game?' " — Casey Stengel, baseball manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.24.15 — "It ain't the heat, it's the humility." — Yogi Berra, baseball player and manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.23.15 — "The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology." — Red Auerbach, basketball coach and team executive [Quotes from Red Auerbach]

Posted 06.22.15 — "The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual." — Vince Lombardi, football coach [Quotes from Vince Lombardi]

Posted 06.21.15 — "Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease." — Sam Snead, professional golfer [Golf Quotes from Sam Snead]

Posted 06.20.15 — "Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss?" — Dizzy Dean, baseball pitcher, to an opposing batter [Baseball Quotes from Dizzy Dean]

Posted 06.19.15 — "There are only five things you can do in baseball — run, throw, catch, hit, and hit with power." — Leo Durocher, baseball manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.18.15 — "We used to tease each other about whose liver was going to go first. I never thought it would end for him this way." — Mickey Mantle, baseball player, on the death of Billy Martin, baseball player and manager, in an automobile accident [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.17.15 — "He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play." — Mickey Mantle, baseball player, on his father, Mutt Mantle [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.16.15 — "We are in such a slump that even the ones that are drinkin' aren't hittin." — Casey Stengel, baseball manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.15.15 — "You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents." — Earl Weaver, baseball manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.14.15 — "I didn't really say everything I said." — Yogi Berra, baseball player and manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.13.15 — "That Medwick never lost a debate in his life, mostly because he didn't bother. He was a one man rampage." — Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager, on Joe Medwick, baseball player [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.12.15 — "There's a manager I could play for." — Reggie Jackson, baseball player, on Billy Martin, baseball manager, in 1976 [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.11.15 — "My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad." — Mickey Mantle, baseball player, on his father, Mutt Mantle, and his grandfather, Charles Mantle [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.10.15 — "Good pitching will stop good hitting and vice-versa." — Casey Stengel, baseball manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.09.15 — "You got a hundred more young kids than you have a place for on your club. Every one of them has had a going away party. They have been given the shaving kit and the fifty dollars. They kissed everybody and said, 'See you in the majors in two years.' You see these poor kids who shouldn't be there in the first place. You write on the report card '4-4-4 and out.' That's the lowest rating in everything. Then you call 'em in and say, 'It's the consensus among us that we're going to let you go back home.' Some of them cry, some get mad, but none of them will leave until you answer them one question, 'Skipper, what do you think?' And you gotta look every one of those kids in the eye and kick their dreams in the ass and say no. If you say it mean enough, maybe they do themselves a favor and don't waste years learning what you can see in a day. They don't have what it takes to make the majors, just like I never had it." — Earl Weaver, baseball manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.08.15 — "I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?" — Yogi Berra, baseball player [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.07.15 — "Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill." — Leo Durocher, baseball manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.06.15 — "Some people have a chip on their shoulder. Billy has a whole lumberyard." — Jim Murray, Los Angeles Times sportswriter, on Billy Martin, baseball player and manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.05.15 — "I expected him to say, 'Hang in there' or something like that. It took me an hour to talk him into giving me another chance!" — Mickey Mantle, baseball player, after his father, Mutt Mantle, called him a coward and a quitter when Mickey told him he couldn't play anymore after being sent down to Triple A Kansas City from the Yankees during his rookie season in 1951 [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.04.15 — "I thought I raised a ballplayer. You're nothing but a coward and a quitter." — Mutt Mantle, father of Mickey Mantle, when Mickey told him he couldn't play anymore after being sent down to Triple A Kansas City from the Yankees during his rookie season in 1951 [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.031.15 — "The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets doubleheader." — Casey Stengel, baseball manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.02.15 — "You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all." — Earl Weaver, baseball manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 06.01.15 — "In baseball, you don't know nothing." — Yogi Berra, baseball player and manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

    
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