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Archives - June 2003
Posted 06.30.03
"He'd knock you down just for having bad
breath..." Joe Garagiola, professional baseball
player and broadcaster, commenting on Hall of Fame
pitcher Bob Gibson [Get
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Posted 06.29.03
"The two most important things to athletes:
playing time and money..." John Paxson, champion
professional basketball player [Get
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Posted 06.28.03
"Running on an artificial leg at full speed
is like driving backward at 55 miles per hour,
using only you rearview mirror to guide you..."
Thomas Bourgeois, champion runner and
below-the-knee amputee [Get
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Posted 06.27.03
"Individual commitment to a group effort,
gentlemen, that's what makes a team work, a
company work, a society work, a civilization
work..." Vince Lombardi, Hall of Fame football
coach [Get
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Posted 06.26.03
"I don't know. I'm not in shape yet..."
Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame baseball player and
coach, when asked during spring training about his
cap size [Get
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Posted 06.25.03
"We think TV exposure is so important to our
program and so important to this university that
we will schedule ourselves to fit the medium. I'll
play at midnight if that's what TV wants..."
Paul "Bear" Bryant, Hall of Fame college football
coach [Get
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Posted 06.24.03
"Life is like boxing. You've only got so many
punches to throw, and you can only take so
many..." George Foreman, champion boxer [Get
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Posted 06.23.03
"There's nothing worse than a sorry, pitiful,
whining teammate..." Charles Barkley,
professional basketball player [Get
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Posted 06.22.03
"If (Jack) Nicklaus tells you an ant can pull
a bale of hay, don't ask any questions, just hook
him up..." Lee Trevino, champion golfer [Get
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Posted 06.21.03
"If all the year were playing holidays, To
sport would be as tedious as to work..." William
Shakespeare, playwright and poet [Get
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Posted 06.20.03
"I could beat on other kids and steal their
lunch money and buy myself something to eat. But I
couldn't steal a father. I couldn't steal a
father's hug when I needed one..." Bo Jackson,
professional football and baseball player [Get
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Posted 06.19.03
"Good sportsmanship and reasonable standards
of conduct are important..." Ted Turner, cable
TV entrepreneur, baseball team owner and yachtsman [Get
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Posted 06.18.03
"I think I'll take another bite of my coffee..."
Frank Gifford, Hall of Fame football player, NFL
broadcaster, while announcing the famous Ice Bowl
game [Get
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Posted 06.17.03
"I ain't ever liked violence..." Sugar Ray
Robinson, champion boxer [Get
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Posted 06.16.03
"Playing in the U.S. Open is like tip-toeing
through hell..." Jerry McGee, professional
golfer [Get
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Posted 06.15.03
"It relieves the manager of all responsibility
except to post the lineup card on the dugout wall
and make sure everybody gets to the airport on
time..." Red Smith, sportswriter, on the
designated hitter rule [Get
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Posted 06.14.03
"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 for the rest of the season after one of
his pitchers ended the career of an on-deck batter
with a beanball [Get
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Posted 06.13.03
"In ancient Rome, citizens befuddled by the
complexities of the waning empire found in battles
waged by the gladiators precisely the simplistic
relief from the government problems of their
day..." James Michener, Pulitzer Prize winning
author [Get
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Posted 06.12.03
"Statistics always remind me of the fellow who
drowned in a river whose average depth was three
feet..." Woody Hayes, Hall of Fame college
football coach, on the value of statistics [Get
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Posted 06.11.03
"How many guys we got in this league 1,500?
Well, that means there are 1,495 guys he can't
lick..." Bill Parcells, NFL coach, referring to
his kicker, who had told the media he wanted to
get in some hits [Get
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Posted 06.10.03
"Gentlemen, you are about to play football
for Yale. Never again in your lives will you do
anything so important..." Tad Jones, Hall of
Fame college football coach (1909-27), addressing
his Yale team [Get
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Posted 06.09.03
"The only reason I'd go to the NBA is if
someone throws funny money players' money at
me..." Jim Calhoun, college basketball coach [Get
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Posted 06.08.03
"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, NBA coach, about Patrick Ewing, who
played an entire game with a torn Achilles tendon
and led his team to a win [Get
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Posted 06.07.03
"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,
professional basketball player [Get
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Posted 06.06.03
"The most difficult aspect of dealing with
sportswriters is their assumption of moral
superiority. They insist on advising everyone..."
Glenn Seaburg, University of Southern California
chancellor [Get
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Posted 06.05.03
"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 [Get
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Posted 06.04.03
"The way to make coaches think you're in shape in
the spring is to get a tan..." Whitey Ford, Hall
of Fame baseball player, on Spring Training [Get
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Posted 06.03.03
"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 [Get
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Posted 06.02.03
"I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there
weren't any rules, how could you break them..."
Leo Durocher, memorable major league baseball
player and manager [Get
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Posted 06.01.03
"It is impossible for anyone who does not
live in New York to know what it truly is to hate
the Yankees..?" Murray Kempton, in Back at the
Polo Grounds [Get
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