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Archives - August 2005
Posted 08.31.05
"When it comes to football, God is prejudiced
toward big, fast kids." Chuck Mills,
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Posted 08.30.05
"Games lubricate the body and the mind."
Benjamin Franklin, United States patriot,
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Posted 08.29.05
"Football is, after all, a wonderful way to
get rid of your aggressions without going to
jail for it." Heywood Hale Broun, writer [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.28.05
"When I watch myself on film, sometimes I don't
even believe some of the things I do." Walter
Payton, Hall of Fame football player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.27.05
"Freshmen get nothing but abuse... but plenty
of that." Knute Rockne, Hall of Fame college
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Posted 08.26.05
"You travel around Texas with me, and
everyone wants to talk about Nolan Ryan."
George W. Bush, then-governor of Texas and team
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Posted 08.25.05
"Character will only take you so far. You've
got to have talent." Karl Malone, professional
basketball player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.24.05
"A wide receiver just has to be flexible and
give the quarterback a break." Sammy White,
professional football player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.23.05
"I built my American dream one rep at a
time." Bob Paris, champion bodybuilder [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.22.05
"The critics agreed the Yale band was two steps
faster than Harvard's." Red Smith,
sportswriter, comparing the two schools'
marching bands [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.21.05
"Forget love and Esperanto: The only two
international gauges are music and sports."
Steve Rushin, sportswriter [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.20.05
"Probably a professor of English." Jimmy
Cannon, sportswriter, after learning that the
house of fellow sportswriter Gene Ward had been
burned down by an arsonist [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.19.05
"Let's face it, women are more interesting
than football." Roy Blount, Jr., writer and
humorist [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.18.05
"Ever to be the best and to surpass others."
Achilles in The Odyssey, by Homer [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.17.05
"No sport, save possibly steeplechasing and
football, is so good a school ... as polo."
George S. Patton, U.S. Army General [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.16.05
"This team has a chance of going all the way. So
did the Titanic." Jim Murray, sportswriter [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.15.05
"I will crush you like a grape." The phrase
Mark Tuinei, professional football player, most
liked to tell opposing linemen [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.14.05
"Looking back, it would be impossible to
overstate the impact of sports in my life."
Spike Lee, writer, actor, director [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.13.05
"Citius, altius, fortius ... swifter, higher,
stronger." Olympic motto [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.12.05
"There's nothing worse than a sorry, pitiful,
whining teammate." Charles Barkley,
professional basketball player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.11.05
"God gets you to the plate, but once you're
there you're on your own." Ted Williams, Hall
of Fame baseball player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.10.05
"I slept like a baby I woke up and cried
every two hours." Fred Taylor,
professional football player, after a loss [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.09.05
"The more difficult a victory, the greater
the happiness is in winning." Pelι, soccer
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Posted 08.08.05
"The trouble with referees is that they just
don't care which side wins." Tom Canterbury,
college basketball player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.07.05
"If I was half the coach on the bench that I
was in the stands, we'll have no problems."
Bob Plager,
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Posted 08.06.05
"Winning tends to heal uneasiness and promote
job security." Selena Roberts,
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Posted 08.05.05
"I owe the public nothing ... I refuse to be nice
to the kiddies." Bill Russell, Hall of Fame
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Posted 08.04.05
"You couldn't play on my Amazing Mets without
having held some kind of record, like one fella
held the world's international all-time record
for a pitcher getting hit on the ankles."
Casey Stengel, Hall of Fame baseball manager [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.03.05
"I knew it was all over for me. Every system in my
body was shot, my testicles had shrunk to the
size of peanuts. It was only a question of which
organ was going to explode on me first." Steve Michalik, world champion bodybuilder, referring
to steroids [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.02.05
"Since the earliest days of the human race,
physical strength above the ordinary has been
admired, envied and striven for by the majority
of men." D.P. Willoughby, writer [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 08.01.05
"Glad to meet ya, Mr. Vice Prez. Love ya, but
didn't vote for ya." Don Meredith, broadcaster
and former professional football player, to Vice
President Spiro T. Agnew [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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