SportByte Archives - July 2007
Posted 07.31.07
"Age is like a bulldozer. It's gonna push you
out of the way once you stop moving." Archie
Moore, champion boxer
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Posted 07.30.07
"You don't build character without somebody
slapping you around." Vince Lombardi, champion
football coach
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Posted 07.29.07
"Front office brilliance in baseball is rarer
than a triple play." Roger Angell, writer
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Posted 07.28.07
"I look at a golf course as a huge waste of
pastureland." Karl Malone, professional
basketball player
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Posted 07.27.07
"One man practicing sportsmanship is better
than a hundred teaching it." Knute Rockne,
champion college football coach
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Posted 07.26.07
"In this country, when you finish second, no
one knows your name." Frank McGuire, college
and professional basketball coach
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Posted 07.25.07
"The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest
if somebody put a flagstick on top." Pete Dye,
golf course designer
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Posted 07.24.07
"This year we hope to run and shoot. Next
year we hope to run and score." Billy Tubbs,
college basketball coach
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Posted 07.23.07
"The bull is stronger but the matador is
smarter." Muhammad Ali, world champion boxer
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Posted 07.22.07
"Fatigue makes cowards of us all." Vince
Lombardi, Hall of Fame football coach
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Posted 07.21.07
"You play the way you practice." Pop
Warner, Hall of Fame football coach
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Posted 07.20.07
"A champion is one who gets up when he can't
see." Jack Dempsey, champion boxer
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Posted 07.19.07
"Defeat creates orphaned thoughts."
Madeleine Blais, writer
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Posted 07.18.07
"Be quick, but never hurry." John Wooden,
champion college basketball coach
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Posted 07.17.07
"Any American boy can be a basketball star if
he grows up, up, up." Bill Vaughn, writer
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Posted 07.16.07
"When a guy comes into the ring, he's fair
game. You've got to take him out." Goldberg,
champion professional wrestler
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Posted 07.15.07
"The joker got funny and said he found urine
in my whiskey. I fired him." Ty Cobb, Hall of
Fame baseball player, about his doctor
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Posted 07.14.07
"College is the fountain of life. You have to
drink from it." John Chaney, college
basketball coach
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Posted 07.13.07
"I'm not allowed to comment on lousy
officiating." Jim Finks, NFL team executive
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Posted 07.12.07
"If the man tells you there's cheese on the
mountain, then you best bring crackers." Keith
Byars, professional football player, on coach
Bill Parcells
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Posted 07.11.07
"Don't let anyone outwork you." Attributed
to his father by professional baseball player
Derek Jeter
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Posted 07.10.07
"You always have to focus in life on what you
want to achieve." Michael Jordan, professional
basketball player
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Posted 07.09.07
"My college playbook was like a Dr. Seuss
book. With the 49ers, it's like a cookbook."
Terrell Owens, professional football player
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Posted 07.08.07
"My toughest fight was with my first wife."
Muhammad Ali, champion boxer
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Posted 07.07.07
"The gods do not deduct from man's allotted
span the hours spent in fishing." Babylonian
proverb
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Posted 07.06.07
"I'm not mean, just aggressive." Harvey
Martin, professional football player
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Posted 07.05.07
"I have the greatest job in the world."
Derek Jeter, professional baseball player
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Posted 07.04.07
"Lifting a barbell ain't like eating no
watermelon." Toad, U.S. Olympic weightlifter
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Posted 07.03.07
"Only boring people find baseball boring."
Peter Golenbach, sportswriter
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Posted 07.02.07
"Every hole should be a demanding par and a
comfortable bogey." Robert Trent Jones, Jr.,
golf course architect
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Posted 07.01.07
"The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a
strong body, a good right arm and a weak mind."
Dizzy Dean, Hall of Fame baseball player and
broadcaster
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Posted 06.30.07
"The minute you start talking about what
you're going to do if you lose, you've lost."
George Schultz, U.S. Secretary of State
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Posted 06.29.07
"I'd rather get Gatorade poured on me than
bust my butt selling it." Bill Parcells, NFL
coach, on endorsements
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Posted 06.28.07
"Listen, I'm a leader. If anyone gives me
trouble in a huddle I don't care who they are
I'm going to sting them." Terry Bradshaw,
Hall of Fame football player
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Posted 06.27.07
"When it comes to football, God is prejudiced
toward big, fast kids." Chuck Mills,
professional football player
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Posted 06.26.07
"It would be a real misfortune to lose so
manly and vigorous a game as football."
Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. president
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Posted 06.25.07
"Monday Night Football." Camille Paglia,
writer and feminist, when asked to name her
favorite television show
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Posted 06.24.07
"Football is the quintessential American
sport: lots of violence punctuated by committee
meetings." George Will, political analyst and
baseball aficionado
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Posted 06.23.07
"Everybody loves a gambler, until he loses."
Vince Lombardi, Hall of Fame football coach
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Posted 06.22.07
"We wuz robbed we should have stood in
bed." Joe Jacobs, trainer, after his fighter,
Max Schmeling, lost to Jack Sharkey
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Posted 06.21.07
"What's bigger than butterflies? A buzzard? I
had a buzzard in my stomach." Allen Iverson,
professional basketball player
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Posted 06.20.07
"I do believe that my best hits border on
felonious assault." Jack Tatum, professional
football player
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Posted 06.19.07
"On this team we are all united in a common
goal: to keep my job." Lou Holtz, champion
college football coach
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Posted 06.18.07
"Nice guys finish last." Leo Durocher,
professional baseball player and manager
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Posted 06.17.07
"When you win, nothing hurts." Joe Namath,
professional football player, regarding pain
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Posted 06.16.07
"The secret is watching the center and going
with the snap." Nate Allen, professional
football player, on blocking punts and field
goals
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Posted 06.15.07
"Luck means a lot in football. Not having a
quarterback is bad luck." Don Shula, Hall of
Fame football coach
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Posted 06.14.07
"He was a credit to his race
the human race." Jimmy Cannon, sportswriter,
on champion boxer Joe Louis
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Posted 06.13.07
"I got into this business because I got tired
of beating up people for free." Larry Holmes,
champion boxer
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Posted 06.12.07
"I miss football so much heck, I even miss
the interceptions." Archie Manning,
broadcaster and former professional football
player
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Posted 06.11.07
"Keep your head up; act like a champion."
Paul "Bear" Bryant, Hall of Fame college
football coach
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Posted 06.10.07
"Adversity teaches a man about himself."
Alonzo Mourning, All-Star professional
basketball player
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Posted 06.09.07
"Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona
Lisa." George Steinbrenner, owner of the New
York Yankees
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Posted 06.08.07
"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody
wants to die." Joe Louis, champion
professional boxer
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Posted 06.07.07
"Luck is the residue of design." Branch
Rickey, Hall of Fame baseball executive
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Posted 06.06.07
"Cut me and I'll bleed Dodger blue." Tommy
Lasorda, baseball manager
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Posted 06.05.07
"Some ballyard!" Babe Ruth, Hall of Fame
baseball player, about Yankee Stadium
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Posted 06.04.07
"I ain't ever liked violence." Sugar Ray
Robinson, champion boxer
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Posted 06.03.07
"He who is not courageous enough to take
risks will accomplish nothing in life."
Muhammad Ali, champion boxer
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Posted 06.02.07
"Losing is the great American sin." Jerome
Holtzman, writer
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Posted 06.01.07
"Freshmen get nothing but abuse... but plenty
of that." Knute Rockne, Hall of Fame college
football coach
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