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Archives - October 2004
Posted 10.31.04
"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is
calm." Publius Syrus, writer, first century
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Posted 10.30.04
"Allus I do is what I please and nobody stops
me." Gorgeous George, professional wrestler [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.29.04
"On this team we are all united in a common
goal: to keep my job." Lou Holtz, college and
professional football coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.28.04
"Every athlete is a role model, whether they
want to be or not. You have to recognize that
position." Dale Earnhardt, champion race car
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Posted 10.27.04
"I
hate to lose. Hate, hate, hate to lose."
George Steinbrenner, owner, New York Yankees
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Posted 10.26.04
"Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell
from a tree." Joe Dugan, professional baseball
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Posted 10.25.04
"Fatigue makes cowards of us all." Vince
Lombardi, Hall of Fame football coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.24.04
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of
America had better learn baseball." Jacques
Barzun, writer [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.23.04
"No excuse in the world counts for squat." Mark
Schubert, U.S. Olympic swimming coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.22.04
"I'll moider da bum." Tony Galento, heavyweight
boxer, when asked what he thought of William
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Posted 10.21.04
"All the rookies call me Mr. Long and I can't
recognize any of the music they listen to."
Howie Long, broadcaster and Hall of Fame
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Posted 10.20.04
"Well, I don't think he'd enforce a rigorous
curfew." George Will, political commentator
and baseball aficionado, when asked by TV
interviewer Roy Firestone what kind of baseball
manager U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy would be [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.19.04
"I was never a rah-rah guy. I was never one
of those guys that went around and rah-rahed...
Rah-rah don't get it done." Sparky Anderson,
professional baseball player and manager [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.18.04
"I wouldn't throw at her, but I might brush
her back." Johnny Allen, professional
baseball player, about Doc Cramer's contention
that he would throw at his mother [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.17.04
"This series is fixed. You can have it I'm
going to the race track." Champ Pickens,
event promoter, speaking about the 1919 World
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Posted 10.16.04
"Every sport pretends to a literature, but
people don't believe it of any other sport but
their own." Alistair Cooke, writer and
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Posted 10.15.04
"To so many players, practice is like a pause
between their cell-phone conversations." Mary
Conlon, professional basketball player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.14.04
"What you're thinking, what shape your mind
is in, is what makes the biggest difference of
all." Willie Mays, Hall of Fame baseball
player, on confidence [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.13.04
"Any time your defense gives up more points
than a basketball team, you're in trouble."
Lou Holtz, champion college football coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.12.04
"Leadership is getting people to do something they
shouldn't be able to do." Al Roberts, college
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Posted 10.11.04
"Jimmy Taylor, the great fullback of the Green Bay
Packers, spent four years in college and emerged
unscarred by education." Dick Schaap,
sportswriter, author and broadcaster [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.10.04
"A boy who doesn't like contact shouldn't
play football, because he isn't going to
change." Red Blaik, Hall of Fame college
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Posted 10.09.04
"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 10.08.04
"I was promised money, credit cards, apartments,
come home on weekends when I wanted to.
Everybody was promising something. It was just
who was promising me the most." Derric Evans,
high school football player, on recruiting [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.07.04
"No, we ain't gonna play that. We're gonna
kick their butts." Lee Roy Jordan, Hall of
Fame professional football player, waving off a defense
called in from the sidelines [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.06.04
"OK, so we don't intend to win this year, maybe
not even next year. It's the future we're
concerned with." Chuck Knox, professional
football coach, after trading away four star
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Posted 10.05.04
"Sportsmanship should be the very mortar of
an athlete but never an entity in itself for
conscious display." Grantland Rice,
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Posted 10.04.04
"Winning is like shaving. You do it every
day, or you end up looking like a bum." Jack
Kemp, professional football player and U.S.
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Posted 10.03.04
"Whenever he was able to impart his
confidence, that part of the game just
sparkled." Frank Clark, professional football
player, about Hall of Fame coach Tom Landry [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.02.04
"Whenever Rock opened his kisser, the throng
became as silent as a tomb." Harry Grayson,
sportswriter, on Hall of Fame college football
coach Knute Rockne [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.01.04
"Just a fad passing fancy." Philip Wrigley,
baseball team owner, on games played after dark
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