SportByte Archives
November 2008
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Posted 11.30.08 "You
have to expect things of yourself before you can
do them." Michael Jordan, professional
basketball player
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Posted 11.29.08 "There
is nothing harder to do in all of sports than
hitting a home run." Ted Williams,
professional baseball player
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Posted 11.28.08 "I
never throwed an illegal pitch ... Just once in
a while I used to toss one that ain't never been
seen by this generation." Satchel Paige,
professional baseball player
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Posted 11.27.08 "I
believe there is winning and misery and even
when we win I'm miserable." Pat Riley,
professional basketball coach
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Posted 11.26.08 "The
ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if
somebody put a flagstick on top." Pete Dye,
golf course designer
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Posted 11.25.08 "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 11.24.08 "He's
got the heart of a lion. He may be the type of
player that comes around once in a thousand
years." Tom Watson, professional golfer, on
Tiger Woods, professional golfer
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Posted 11.23.08 "True
motivation is not getting people to play to
their potential. True motivating is getting
people to play beyond their potential." Rick
Pitino, college and professional basketball
coach
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Posted 11.22.08 "I will
not permit 30 men to travel 400 miles to agitate
a bag of wind." Andrew Dickson White, Cornell
University President, who would not allow his
school's football team to travel to play
Michigan
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Posted 11.21.08 "You'll
know, because you'll be looking out of your ear
hole." Ronnie Barnes, NFL trainer and East
Carolina alumnus, to player David Meggett,
referring to what is known in the league as 'an
official NFL hit'
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Posted 11.20.08 "If I
could make more money running a supermarket, I'd
run a supermarket. My best thing is driving
cars... It's a business, like any other
business." Richard Petty, race car driver
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Posted 11.19.08 "College
football would be more interesting if the
faculty played instead of the students there
would be a great increase in broken arms, legs
and necks." H.L. Mencken, humorist and author
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Posted 11.18.08 "I'm
not much of a golfer. I don't have any friends.
And, all I like to do the day of a game is go
home and be alone and worry about ways not to
lose." Paul 'Bear' Bryant, college football
coach
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Posted 11.17.08 "When
you unwrap a Reggie Bar, it tells you how good
it is." Jim 'Catfish' Hunter, professional
baseball player, on the candy bar named after
Reggie Jackson, professional baseball player
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Posted 11.16.08 "Running
on an artificial leg at full speed is like
driving backward at 55 miles per hour, using
only your rearview mirror to guide you."
Thomas Bourgeois, runner and below-the-knee
amputee
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Posted 11.15.08 "You
wolves been howling for blood all year. Maybe
this'll shut you up." John King, professional
baseball player, as he threw 50 chunks of meat
into the stands
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Posted 11.14.08 "In pro
football the college draft is what makes good
teams great, as the youngsters imbue a team with
their youth and enthusiasm, pushing the veterans
to play harder, and sometimes pushing them out."
Peter Golenboch, sportswriter
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Posted 11.13.08 "Son,
looks to me like you're spending too much time
on one subject." Shelby Metcalf, Texas A&M
basketball coach, to a player who received four
F's and one D
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Posted 11.12.08 "Coaching
is teaching. Some coaches try to make what they
do sound mysterious and complicated when it's
not ... to be a good coach, you have to be a
good teacher." John Madden, professional
football coach, writer and broadcaster
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Posted 11.11.08 "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
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Posted 11.10.08 "When
he didn't remember our anniversary, I knew he
was OK." Lisa McCaffrey, on her husband,
professional football player Ed McCaffrey, who
had suffered a concussion
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Posted 11.09.08 "He
treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."
Torrin Polk, college football player, on John
Jenkins, college football coach
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Posted 11.08.08 "If the
man tells you there's cheese on the mountain,
then you best bring crackers." Keith Byars,
professional football player, on Bill Parcells,
professional football coach
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Posted 11.07.08 "The
taste of defeat has a richness of experience all
its own." Bill Bradley, professional
basketball player and U.S. senator
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Posted 11.06.08 "There
is nothing harder to do in all of sports than
hitting a home run." Ted Williams,
professional baseball player
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Posted 11.05.08 "Every
time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you
die a little." George Allen, professional
football coach
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Posted 11.04.08 "There
is something about a new pair of sneakers that
makes a boy feel he can run faster and jump
higher." Spike Lee, writer, actor, director
and sports fan
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Posted 11.03.08 "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 11.02.08 "In
football and in business, preparation precedes
performance." Bill Walsh, college and
professional football coach
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Posted 11.01.08 "Some
of us shake on the outside, some of us on the
inside." Roberto Clemente, professional
baseball player, on butterflies
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