SportByte Archives - January 2008
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Posted
01.31.08
"I like to throw the ball. To me, the pro
game is throwing. I may be wrong, but putting
the ball in the air is the way to win." Y.A.
Tittle, professional quarterback
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Posted
01.30.08
"When you come right down to it, the baseball
owners are really little boys with big wallets."
Harold Parrott, writer
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Posted
01.29.08
"Baby, no one sends in plays for Francis."
Fran Tarkenton, professional quarterback, when
asked who called his team's plays
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Posted
01.28.08
"It's not the fact that men love football
that makes modern woman want to scream ... It's
the assumption that she is incapable of loving
it, too." Sally Jenkins, writer
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Posted
01.27.08
"Talent is God-given, be humble; fame is
man-given, be thankful; conceit is self-given,
be careful." Anonymous (quoted often by
college basketball coach John Wooden)
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Posted
01.26.08
"Half the time the scouts have their heads
down making notes and don't even see which way
the ball is hit." Tom Greenwade, professional
baseball scout
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Posted
01.25.08
"Statistics always remind me of the fellow
who drowned in a river whose average depth was
only three feet." Woody Hayes, college
football coach
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Posted
01.24.08
"He talks OK up there with a bat in his
hands. A college education don't do you no good
up there." Casey Stengel, professional
baseball manager, on professional baseball
player Yogi Berra
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Posted
01.23.08
"We avoided guys who could play the piano."
Paul Brown, professional football coach and team
owner, on making NFL draft selections
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Posted
01.22.08
"Everything in a game happens by chance, so
what you're doing is trying to make your own
breaks." Nate Allen, professional football
player, on luck
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Posted
01.21.08
"Games lubricate the body and the mind."
Benjamin Franklin, United States patriot,
Founding Father and inventor
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Posted
01.20.08
"Good to meet you. A writer, huh? What paper
you with Ernie?" Yogi Berra, professional
baseball player, upon being introduced to Ernest
Hemingway
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Posted
01.19.08
"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
01.18.08
"A boy who doesn't like contact shouldn't
play football, because he isn't going to
change." Red Blaik, college football coach
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Posted
01.17.08
"He treats us like men. He lets us wear
earrings." Torrin Polk, college football
player, on his coach, John Jenkins
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Posted
01.16.08
"My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't
know if I'm going to be an aunt or an uncle."
Chuck Nevitt, college basketball player,
explaining to his coach why he appeared nervous
at practice
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Posted
01.15.08
"The man who can drive himself further once
the effort gets painful is the man who will
win." Roger Bannister, first athlete to run
the mile in under four minutes
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Posted
01.14.08
"I don't understand what kind of #### radio
that can be if you can't get a score of a ball
game on it." Harry Caray, broadcaster, to a
taxi driver who only had a dispatch radio in his
cab
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Posted
01.13.08
"If the on-deck batter is standing too close
to home plate, you brush him back." Brent
Kemnitz, college baseball coach suspended after
one of his pitchers ended the career of an
on-deck batter by beaning him
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Posted
01.12.08
"Whenever I decided to release a guy, I
always had his room checked first for a gun. You
couldn't take chances with some of those birds."
Casey Stengel, professional baseball manager
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Posted
01.11.08
"When I began playing the game, baseball was
about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch."
Ty Cobb, professional baseball player
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Posted
01.10.08
"Mexican baseball is exactly like American
baseball, except for the extraneous
embellishments. They work the hit and run and
turn the double-play ball, but they don't sell
the hot dog." Peter Golenboch, sportswriter
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Posted
01.09.08
"You spend a good piece of your life gripping
a baseball and in the end it turns out that it
was the other way around all the time." Jim
Bouton, professional baseball player and writer
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Posted
01.08.08
"Baseball gives every American boy a chance
to excel. Not just to be as good as everyone
else, but to be better. This is the nature of
man, and this is the name of the game." Ted
Williams, professional baseball player
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Posted
01.07.08
"Baseball is a worrying thing." Stan
Coveleshi, writer
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Posted
01.06.08
"The Yankees are baseball." Joe Torre,
professional baseball player and manager
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Posted
01.05.08
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of
America had better learn baseball." Jacques
Barzun, writer
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Posted
01.04.08
"I see great things in baseball. It is our
game. The American game. It will repair our
losses and be a blessing to us." Walt Whitman,
poet
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Posted
01.03.08
"Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest
thing to perfection that man has yet achieved."
Red Smith, sportswriter
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Posted
01.02.08
"Baseball is pieces of minutiae that need
belaboring." Bill Sheft, writer
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Posted
01.01.08
"Football players, like prostitutes, are in
the business of ruining their bodies for the
pleasure of strangers." Merle Kessler, writer
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