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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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.29.08 — "There is nothing harder to do in all of sports than hitting a home run." — Ted Williams, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.27.08 — "I believe there is winning and misery and even when we win I'm miserable." — Pat Riley, professional basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.26.08 — "The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top." — Pete Dye, golf course designer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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' — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.06.08 — "There is nothing harder to do in all of sports than hitting a home run." — Ted Williams, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.05.08 — "Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little." — George Allen, professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.02.08 — "In football and in business, preparation precedes performance." — Bill Walsh, college and professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.01.08 — "Some of us shake on the outside, some of us on the inside." — Roberto Clemente, professional baseball player, on butterflies — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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