Bonesville Daily SportByte™ — Memorable Quotes from Notable Sports Personalities

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Posted 02.27.09 — "Winning is an attitude." — John Chaney, college basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.26.09 — "Never go to bed a loser." — George Halas, professional football coach and team owner — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.25.09 — "There is an itch in runners." — Arnold Hano, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.24.09 — "Everybody loves a gambler, until he loses." — Vince Lombardi, professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.23.09 — "A tie is like kissing your sister." — Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.22.09 — "A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall." — Vince Lombardi, football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.21.09 — "For every pass I ever caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice." — Don Hutson, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.20.09 — "Great stars that knew their days in fame's bright sun, I heard them trampling to oblivion." — Grantland Rice, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.19.09 — "When I hit a guy, I'll hit him in the throat — he doesn't have pads on there." — Conrad Dobler, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.18.09 — "Each is the last to learn from fate, That his story is finished – and out of date." — Grantland Rice, sportswriter, on the reluctance of players to retire — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.17.09 — "We Americans are a competitive race. We bet on anything. We love to win." — George S. Patton, U.S. general — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.16.09 — "The five S's of sports are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit." — Ken Doherty, track coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.15.09 — "In this country, you either finish first or last; there is no second place." — Buddy Werner, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.14.09 — "Sports is a lot of damn nonsense." — Harry S. Truman, U.S. President — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.13.09 — "Pelé is the greatest sportsman of all time in all sports." — Ian Woosman, North American Soccer League commissioner, on Brazilian soccer legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as 'Pelé' — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.12.09 — "All the rookies call me Mr. Long and I can't recognize any of the music they listen to." — Howie Long, professional football player and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.11.09 — "It's not a game. It's a lifestyle." — Beverly Schnellenberger, wife of college football coach Howard Schnellenberger — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.10.09 — "Somewhere in the player's contract, maybe in the fine print, it says, "You're supposed to block." — John McKay, professional and college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.09.09 — "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." — Duke of Wellington, British general and prime minister — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.08.09 — "If Howard Cosell was a sport, it would be roller derby." — Jimmy Cannon, sportswriter, on the legendary and controversial broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.07.09 — "Glad to meet ya, Mr. Vice Prez. Love ya, but didn't vote for ya." — Don Meredith, broadcaster and former professional football player, to U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.06.09 — "Since the earliest days of the human race, physical strength above the ordinary has been admired, envied and striven for by the majority of men." — D.P. Willoughby, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.05.09 — "I knew it was all over for me. Every system in my body was shot, my testicles had shrunk to the size of peanuts. It was only a question of which organ was going to explode on me first." — Steve Michalik, bodybuilder, on the effects of steroids — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.04.09 — "You couldn't play on my Amazing Mets without having held some kind of record, like one fella held the world's international all-time record for a pitcher getting hit on the ankles." — Casey Stengel, professional baseball manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.03.09 — "I owe the public nothing ... I refuse to be nice to the kiddies." — Bill Russell, professional basketball player and coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.02.09 — "Winning tends to heal uneasiness and promote job security." — Selena Roberts, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 02.01.09 — "If I was half the coach on the bench that I was in the stands, we'll have no problems." — Bob Plager, professional hockey coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]