Bonesville Daily SportByte™ — Memorable Quotes from Notable Sports Personalities

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Posted 09.30.08 — "Carrots may be good for my eyes, but they won't straighten out the curve ball." — Carl Furillo, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.29.08 — "When it comes to football, God is prejudiced — toward big, fast kids." — Chuck Mills, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.28.08 — "I look at a golf course as a huge waste of pastureland." — Karl Malone, professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.27.08 — "All's I do is what I please and nobody stops me." — Gorgeous George, professional wrestler — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.26.08 — "Just a fad — passing fancy." — Philip Wrigley, professional baseball team owner, on playing games after dark under the lights — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.25.08 — "Being a professional athlete is just being a big kid." — Larry Csonka, professional football player and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.24.08 — "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, professional baseball manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.23.08 — "When you unwrap a Reggie Bar, it tells you how good it is." — Jim 'Catfish' Hunter, professional baseball player, about a candy bar associated with the name of Reggie Jackson, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.22.08 — "Sportsmanship should be the very mortar of an athlete but never an entity in itself for conscious display." — Grantland Rice, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.21.08 — "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 from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.20.08 — "Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject." — Shelby Metcalf, college basketball coach, to a player who received four F's and one D — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.19.08 — "If a survey was taken, I think you'd find more injuries happen to a quarterback while standing in the pocket than by taking off with a ball." — Steve Grogan, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.18.08 — "Gibson pitches as though he's double-parked." — Vin Scully, broadcaster, commenting on professional baseball pitcher Bob Gibson — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.17.08 — "Sports gives us the ability to test ourselves mentally, physically and emotionally in a way that no other aspect of life can." — Dan O'Brien, Olympic decathlon gold medalist — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.14.08 — "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." — Jacques Barzun, French-born American scholar and teacher — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.13.08 — "Baseball is pieces of minutiae that need belaboring." — Bill Scheft, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.12.08 — "Only boring people find baseball boring." — Peter Golenboch, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.11.08 — "A winner never whines." — Paul Brown, professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.10.08 — "You're out, and you're ugly, too." — Durwood Merrill, umpire — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.09.08 — "Cut me and I'll bleed Dodger blue." — Tom Lasorda, baseball manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.08.08 — "You gotta believe." — Tug McGraw, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.07.08 — "Grip it, and rip it!" — John Daly, professional golfer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.06.08 — "Keep your eye on the ball and hit them where they ain't." — Wee Willie Keeler, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.05.08 — "Stand your ground and take your lumps." — Yogi Berra, professional baseball player and manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.04.08 — "In order to run an efficient organization, there has to be a dictator." — Al Advise, professional football team owner — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.03.08 — "Have you ever seen a Fellini movie? My life is like a Fellini movie." — George Karl, professional basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.02.08 — "Nobody ever goes there anymore – it's too crowded." — Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame baseball player, about a local night club — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.01.08 — "This game was invented for Willie Mays a hundred years ago." — Ray Sedecki, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]