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Archives - February 2005
Posted 02.28.05
"If I don't make it to the NBA, I'm gonna be
a drug dealer. Somehow I gotta get me a Lexus.
Whatever it takes." Booger Smith, high school
basketball player (the opening line of the
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Posted 02.27.05
"Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.
Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd
be easier for me if I was a little crazier and
a little more patient." Bo Jackson,
professional baseball and football player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.26.05
"I am delighted to view any sport that may be
safely engaged in." Charles Dickens, novelist [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.25.05
"Don't let anyone outwork you." Attributed
to Derek Jeter's father, by Derek Jeter,
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Posted 02.24.05
"Try to exercise, eat better, try to do some
fun things with my wife." Tom Davis, college
basketball coach, on what he was going to do
after he was fired [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.23.05
"Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part."
Elgin Baylor, Hall of Fame basketball player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.22.05
"I find that prayers work best when you have
big players." Knute Rockne, Hall of Fame
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Posted 02.21.05
"God gets you to the plate, but once you're there
you're on your own." Ted Williams, Hall of
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Posted 02.20.05
"The most beautiful thing in the world is a ball
park filled with people." Bill Veeck, baseball
owner and racetrack operator [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.19.05
"Thrust against pain, pain is the purifier."
Percy Cerutty, Australian Olympic coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.18.05
"Any American boy can be a basketball star if
he grows up, up, up." Bill Vaughn, writer [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.17.05
"When the going gets tough, the tough get
going." Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President,
conservationist and sportsman [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.16.05
"I'm more likely to get hurt bumping into
things around the house." Walter Payton, Hall
of Fame football player, about injuries [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.15.05
"Don't try to perform beyond your abilities
but never perform below them." Frank Robinson,
baseball player and manager [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.14.05
"The greatest horror of coaching is losing."
Joe Schmidt, professional football coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.13.05
"I see great things in baseball. It is our game.
The American game. It will repair our losses and
be a blessing to us." Walt Whitman, poet [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.12.05
"You've gotta have a lot of little boy in you
to play this game." Roy Campanella, Hall of
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Posted 02.11.05
"Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest
thing to perfection that man has yet achieved."
Red Smith, sportswriter [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.10.05
"All great fishermen go to bed early." Ted
Williams, Hall of Fame baseball player and
world-class fisherman [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.09.05
"In a universal sense, football is so
insignificant, it's ridiculous." Pat Hayden,
professional football player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.08.05
"There's no such thing as a 'presumed' record.
It's either a record or it's not." Seymour
Siwoff, statistician, Elias Sports Bureau [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.07.05
"Who knows? Amid world beating hearts, The
tumult and the Shouting starts." Grantland
Rice, sportswriter, on hype [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.06.05
"Be reasonable: Do it my way." sign on the
desk of John Calipari, college and professional
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Posted 02.05.05
"I can buy any one of these sons-of-#######
for a $5 steak." George Weiss, baseball
executive, about sportswriters [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.04.05
"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success."
Charles O. Finley, Major League Baseball owner [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.03.05
"I do believe that my best hits border on
felonious assault." Jack Tatum, professional
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Posted 02.02.05
"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 02.01.05
"People talk about big targets but what the passer
wants is an open target." Harold Jackson,
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