SportByte Archives - December 2006
Posted 12.31.06
"He'd knock you down just for having bad
breath." Joe Garagiola, professional baseball
player and broadcaster, on Hall of Fame pitcher
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Posted 12.30.06
"If you want to be a great hitter, don't go
to the movies. It ruins your eyes." Rogers
Hornsby, Hall of Fame baseball player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.29.06
"I look at a golf course as a huge waste of
pastureland." Karl Malone, professional
basketball player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.28.06
"Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell
from a tree." Joe Dugan, professional baseball
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Posted 12.27.06
"I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how
long it takes." Unnamed senior basketball
player, University of Pittsburgh [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.26.06
"When you're as great as I am, it's hard to
be humble." Muhammad Ali, champion boxer [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.25.06
"I have the job I want. I am not looking for
a job. What I'm looking for is a tall player
that can play." Mike Jarvis, college
basketball coach [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.24.06
"Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There
are no winners, only survivors." Frank
Gifford, professional football player,
broadcaster [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.23.06
"A perfect pitcher is an impossible concept,
as long as major league hitters remain capable
of hitting perfect pitches." Bob Gibson, Hall
of Fame pitcher [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.22.06
"Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can
walk, you can run." Vince Lombardi, Hall of
Fame football coach [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.21.06
"If one's reputation is a possession, then of
all of my possessions, my reputation means the
most to me." Arthur Ashe, tennis icon, in
Days of Grace [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.20.06
"Once my swing starts, I can't change or pull
up. It's all or nothing." Babe Ruth, Hall of
Fame baseball player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.19.06
"I've been called a racist, a drunk and a quitter.
Other than that, I'm fine." Kerry Collins,
professional football player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.18.06
"College football is an ugly business." Mike
Tomco, college football player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.17.06
"A quarterback doesn't come into his own
until he can tell the coach to go to hell."
Johnny Unitas, Hall of Fame football player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.16.06
"What does it take to be a good referee? Beats the
hell out of me. No one thinks any referee is
good." Richie Powers, basketball official [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.15.06
"Nobody in football should be called a
genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
Joe Theisman, broadcaster and former football
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Posted 12.14.06
"I could sell drugs for a living because I'm
a hustler. But why sell drugs and go to prison
when I can sell tickets." Cleveland Chris,
scalper [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.13.06
"Every time you win, you're reborn; when you
lose, you die a little." George Allen, Hall of
Fame football coach [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.12.06
"Yes, it is forever about the money. Sports
teaches you that eight days a week, making
virtues of greed and lust, littering its fields
with the currency of betrayal." Ian O'Connor,
sportswriter [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.11.06
"When I read the sports pages these days, I
think I'm reading the Wall Street Journal."
Dan Jansen, Olympic gold medalist speed skater,
referring to sports business dollars [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.10.06
"If I could make more money running a supermarket,
I'd run a supermarket. My best thing is driving
cars... It's a business, like any other
business." Richard Perry, racing legend [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.09.06
"I was a very late draft choice of the Mittendorf
Funeral Home Panthers. Our color was black."
George Will, author and baseball enthusiast,
about his Little League draft [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.08.06
"Bob Knight is unique. In another time, he
would have been a superb general. ... He may
well be the last of the coaching dictators."
Al McGuire, Hall of Fame basketball coach and
broadcaster, on his fellow Hall of Famer [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.07.06
"Mickey Mantle just was everything. At my bar
mitzvah I had an Oklahoma accent. And I think I
once told my parents, 'Play me or trade me.' "
Billy Crystal, actor, comedian and baseball fan [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.06.06
"I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it
ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't
know and I don't care.' " Frank Layden, NBA
executive and former coach [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.05.06
"Jimmy Taylor, the great fullback of the Green Bay
Packers, spent four years in college and emerged
unscarred by education." Dick Schaap,
sportswriter, author, broadcaster [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.04.06
"Mickey was like Marilyn Monroe. He didn't
have to be the greatest ballplayer. He had that
charisma." Hank Aaron, Hall of Fame baseball
player, about fellow Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.03.06
"Observing team sports, teams of adult men, one
sees how men are children in the most felicitous
sense of the word." Joyce Carol Oates, writer [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.02.06
"That (home run) ball got out of here in a
hurry. Anything going that fast better have a
damn stewardess on it don't you think?"
Kevin Costner, actor, in the movie Bull
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Posted 12.01.06
"First time I ever slept on my back. Had to,
or that medal would have cut my chest."
Muhammad Ali, world champion boxer, on winning a
gold medal in the Olympics [Get thousands of quotes
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