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Archives - July 2004
Posted 07.31.04
"The man who can drive himself further once the
effort gets painful is the man who will win."
Roger Bannister, first athlete to run the mile
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Posted 07.30.04
"My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if
I'm going to be an aunt or an uncle." Chuck
Nevitt, then an N.C. State basketball player,
explaining to his coach why he appeared nervous
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Posted 07.29.04
"He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."
Former University of Houston receiver Torrin
Polk on his coach, John Jenkins [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.28.04
"When I began playing the game, baseball was about
as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch." Ty
Cobb, Hall of Fame baseball player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.27.04
"A boy who doesn't like contact shouldn't
play football, because he isn't going to
change." Red Blaik, Hall of Fame college
football coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.26.04
"Football is the quintessential American sport:
lots of violence punctuated by committee
meetings." George Will, political analyst and
baseball aficionado [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.25.04
"Good to meet you. A writer, huh? What paper
you with Ernie?" Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame
baseball player, to Ernest Hemingway, to whom
he'd been introduced as an important writer [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.24.04
"We avoided guys who could play the piano."
Paul Brown, Hall of Fame coach and team owner,
noting one of the principles he followed in
making NFL draft selections [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.23.04
"Games lubricate the body and the mind."
Benjamin Franklin, United States patriot,
Founding Father and inventor [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.22.04
"Everything in a game happens by chance, so what
you're doing is trying to make your own breaks."
Nate Allen, professional football player,
commenting on luck [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.19.04
"He talks OK up there with a bat in his
hands. A college education don't do you no good
up there." Casey Stengel, Hall of Fame
manager, commenting on Yogi Berra [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.18.04
"Statistics always remind me of the fellow who
drowned in a river whose average depth was only
three feet." Woody Hayes, Hall of Fame college
football coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.17.04
"Half the time the scouts have their heads
down making notes and don't even see which way
the ball is hit." Tom Greenwade, legendary
professional baseball scout [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.16.04
"Talent is God-given, be humble; fame is
man-given, be thankful; conceit is self-given,
be careful." Anonymous, (quoted often by
champion basketball coach John Wooden [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.15.04
"It's not the fact that men love football that
makes modern woman want to scream ... It's the
assumption that she is incapable of loving it,
too." Sally Jenkins, writer [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.14.04
"Baby, no one sends in plays for Francis."
Fran Tarkenton, Hall of Fame professional
quarterback, when asked who called his team's
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Posted 07.13.04
"When you come right down to it, the baseball
owners are really little boys with big wallets."
Harold Parrott, writer [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.12.04
"I like to throw the ball. To me, the pro game is
throwing. I may be wrong, but putting the ball
in the air is the way to win." Y.A. Tittle,
Hall of Fame quarterback [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.11.04
"Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a
cold sweat because you can't wait to beat
another human's guts out?" Joe Kapp,
professional football player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.10.04
"You don't build character without somebody
slapping you around." Vince Lombardi, Hall of
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Posted 07.09.04
"Football players, like prostitutes, are in
the business of ruining their bodies for the
pleasure of strangers." Merle Kessler, writer [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.08.04
"The first time you quit, it's hard. The second
time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't
even have to think." Paul "Bear" Bryant, Hall
of Fame college football coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.07.04
"Have you ever seen a Fellini movie? My life
is like a Fellini movie." George Karl,
professional basketball coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.06.04
"Recruiting is like shaving. Do it every day
or you will look like a bum." Anonymous [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.05.04
"If I ever need a brain transplant, I want one
from a sportswriter, because I'll know it's
never been used." Joe Paterno, champion
college football coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.04.04
"I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there
weren't any rules, how could you break them?"
Leo Durocher, professional baseball player and
Hall of Fame manager [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.03.04
"Which game do I like better? I like baseball
better in the spring. I like football better in
the fall." Bo Jackson, professional baseball
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Posted 07.02.04
"The federal government in all its majesty is
worried that sports broadcasters do sinister
things, like rooting for the home team."
George Will, writer and part owner of the
Chicago Cubs [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 07.01.04
"Whitey (Ford) and Mick (Mickey Mantle) both
made the Hall of Fame and I didn't. I wasn't a
bad influence on them, they were a bad influence
on me." Billy Martin, professional baseball
player and manager [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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