SportByte Archives - February 2007
Posted 02.28.07
"Sports is the toy department of human life."
Howard Cosell, broadcaster [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.27.07
"When the astronauts walked on the moon, I
figured we had a chance to win. Nothing seemed
impossible after that." Tug McGraw, all-star
pitcher, describing the 'Miracle Mets' of 1969 [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.26.07
"My family is the most important thing to me. I
love basketball, but I need my family around
me." Karl Malone, all-star professional
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Posted 02.25.07
"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
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Posted 02.24.07
"In this country, when you finish second, no
one knows your name." Frank McGuire, champion
basketball coach [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.23.07
"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard,
you'll be hard to beat." Herschel Walker,
professional football player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.22.07
"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is
calm." Publius Syrus, writer, first century
B.C. [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.21.07
"When all is said and done, as a rule, more
is said than done." Lou Holtz, college and
professional football coach [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.20.07
"When you're ten, eleven, and twelve, the
most important lesson you can have in sports is
to have fun." Grant Hill, professional
basketball player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.19.07
"A guy strung out on cocaine cares about
setting an example for kids? He cares about
stuffing his nose with cocaine. Period." Jim
Brown, Hall of Fame football player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.18.07
"A lot of parents think kids ought to learn
responsibility from work, and I've always said,
'Baloney.' Kids learn leadership and
organization from games, from having fun."
John Madden, professional football coach and
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Posted 02.17.07
"I don't need to be practicing, I'm leading
this tournament. You guys go on and practice,
because you're behind." Lee Trevino, champion
golfer, to fellow competitors after a good first
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Posted 02.16.07
"Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a
business, and too much of a business to be
called a sport." Phillip K. Wrigley, baseball
team owner [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.15.07
"Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel,
verbose, a show off. I have been called all of
these. Of course, I am." Howard Cosell,
broadcaster [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.14.07
"Willie Mays was my childhood hero, but not
because he was a great baseball player. Because
he had a big house." O.J. Simpson, Hall of
Fame football player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.13.07
"I am a rich man. Just look at my arms. All of my
money is in my veins." Earl Manigault, Harlem
playground basketball legend and ex-convict, on
his drug history [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.12.07
"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
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Posted 02.11.07
"I despise losing and would do anything to avoid
it." Michael Jordan, professional basketball
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Posted 02.10.07
"That boy is too clumsy and too slow." Branch
Rickey, baseball executive, on then-unknown
prospect Yogi Berra [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.09.07
"Managing is like holding a dove in your
hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard
enough and it flies away." Tommy Lasorda,
baseball manager [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.08.07
"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron
is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a
rooster." Curt Simmons, professional baseball
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Posted 02.07.07
"Things are never quite a good as they seem.
Things are never quite as bad as they seem. In
between falls reality." John Calipari, college
and professional basketball coach [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.06.07
"I don't like money, but it quiets my
nerves." Joe Lewis, champion boxer [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.05.07
"Sport is a right of the people." Fidel
Castro, communist dictator of Cuba [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.04.07
"You wolves been howling for blood all year.
Maybe this'll shut you up." John King,
professional baseball player, as he threw fifty
chunks of meat into the stands [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.03.07
"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
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Posted 02.02.07
"Golf is the most fun you can have without
taking your clothes off." Chi Chi Rodriguez,
champion professional golfer [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.01.07
"Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but
ain't no man got to be common." Satchel Paige,
Hall of Fame baseball player [Get thousands of quotes
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