SportByte Archives - March 2007
Posted 03.31.07
"There is no room in baseball for a clown."
Chuck Dressen, professional baseball manager, to
Bob Uecker, professional baseball player and,
later, Hall of Fame broadcaster
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Posted 03.30.07
"A reporter asked me once if I'd ever seen
(Dallas Cowboys coach) Tom Landry laugh. 'No,' I
answered, 'I only played nine years.' " Jerry
Glanville, professional football player and head
coach
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Posted 03.29.07
"I made some mistakes
my immaturity is the one thing that sticks out
but I've learned a lot. Sometimes that takes
time." Kerry Collins, professional football
player
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Posted 03.28.07
"If Howard Cosell was a sport, it would be Roller
Derby." Jimmy Cannon, sportswriter
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Posted 03.27.07
"I'm sick of people talking about money, money,
money all the time." Shaquille O'Neal,
professional basketball player
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Posted 03.26.07
"He's probably never been to Minnesota."
Willie Mosconi, world champion pool player, on
infamous hustler 'Minnesota Fats'
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Posted 03.25.07
"Golf is a good walk spoiled." Mark Twain,
humorist and author
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Posted 03.24.07
"He wants Texas back." Tommy Lasorda,
Dodgers manager, on negotiations with
Mexican-born pitcher Fernando Valenzuela
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Posted 03.23.07
"The ball sailed so high that when it came down it
was coated with ice." Bill McGeehan,
sportswriter, on one of Babe Ruth's home runs
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Posted 03.22.07
"Lifting a barbell ain't like eating no
watermelon." Toad, U.S. Olympic weightlifter
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Posted 03.21.07
"Baseball is what we were. Football is what
we have become." Mary McGrory, journalist
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Posted 03.20.07
"Fishing is a jerk at one end of the line
waiting for a jerk at the other end." Mark
Twain, humorist and author
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Posted 03.19.07
"You've taken my team away from me." Tom
Landry, Hall of Fame professional football
coach, on the day he was fired
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Posted 03.18.07
"There's a foot difference between a halo and
a noose." Bobby Bowden, champion football
coach
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Posted 03.17.07
"Whether in sports or politics, competition
in and of itself is good." Bill Bradley, Hall
of Fame basketball player, U.S. Senator
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Posted 03.16.07
"If you make plays and the team wins, the fans
will be fine. I don't worry about the fans."
Donavan McNabb, professional football player
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Posted 03.15.07
"Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same
fear. Heroes just react to it differently."
Cus D'Amato, Hall of Fame boxing trainer
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Posted 03.14.07
"In this country, you either finish first or
last, there is no second place." Buddy Werner,
writer
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Posted 03.13.07
"Get more open
I'm getting old." Dan Marino, NFL quarterback,
to Lamar Thomas, NFL receiver
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Posted 03.12.07
"Cheating is as much a part of the game as
scorecards and hot dogs." Billy Martin,
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Posted 03.11.07
"When I come back, I want to be reincarnated
as a dolphin or as an F-16." Bo Jackson,
professional baseball and football player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 03.10.07
"It was a lifetime of training for just 10
seconds." Jesse Owens, Olympic track and field
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Posted 03.09.07
"There have been only two geniuses in the
world. Willie Mays and William Shakespeare."
Tallulah Bankhead, actress [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 03.08.07
"Sports is a lot of damn nonsense." Harry
S. Truman, United States President [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 03.07.07
"[Joe] DiMaggio's [hitting] streak is the
most extraordinary thing that ever happened in
American sports." Steven Jay Gould, writer [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 03.06.07
"Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If
you don't think you can win, you won't." Jerry
West, Hall of Fame basketball player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 03.05.07
"If I ever need a brain transplant, I want one
from a sportswriter, because I'll know it's
never been used." Joe Paterno, college
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Posted 03.04.07
"I'm going to write a book, How To Make A Small
Fortune In Baseball you start with a large
fortune." Ruly Carpenter, baseball owner [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 03.03.07
"You argue with an umpire because there's nothing
else you can do about it." Leo Durocher,
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Posted 03.02.07
"We wuz robbed we should have stood in
bed." Joe Jacobs, boxing trainer, after his
fighter, Max Schmeling, lost to Jack Sharkey [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 03.01.07
"Football doesn't build character. It eliminates
the weak ones." Darrell Royal, Hall of Fame
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