SportByte Archives
March 2010
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Posted 03.31.10 "Willie
Mays was my childhood hero, but not because he
was a great baseball player. Because he had a
big house." O.J. Simpson, football player
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Posted 03.30.10 "Arrogant,
pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a show
off. I have been called all of these. Of course,
I am." Howard Cosell, broadcaster
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Posted 03.29.10 "Baseball
is too much of a sport to be called a business,
and too much of a business to be called a
sport." Phillip K. Wrigley, team owner
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Posted 03.28.10 "I
don't need to be practicing, I'm leading this
tournament. You guys go on and practice, because
you're behind." Lee Trevino, golfer, to fellow
competitors after a good first round
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Posted 03.27.10 "A guy
strung out on cocaine cares about setting an
example for kids? He cares about stuffing his
nose with cocaine. Period." Jim Brown,
football player
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Posted 03.26.10 "When
you're 10, 11, and 12, the most important lesson
you can have in sports is to have fun." Grant
Hill, basketball player
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Posted 03.25.10 "When
all is said and done, as a rule, more is said
than done." Lou Holtz, football coach
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Posted 03.24.10 "Anyone
can hold the helm when the sea is calm."
Publius Syrus, writer, first century B.C.
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Posted 03.23.10 "If you
train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be
hard to beat." Herschel Walker, football
player
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Posted 03.22.10 "In
this country, when you finish second, no one
knows your name." Frank McGuire, basketball
coach
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Posted 03.21.10 "My
family is the most important thing to me. I love
basketball, but I need my family around me."
Karl Malone, basketball player
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Posted 03.20.10 "When
the astronauts walked on the moon, I figured we
had a chance to win. Nothing seemed impossible
after that." Tug McGraw, baseball player,
describing the 'Miracle Mets' of 1969
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Posted 03.19.10 "The
two most important things to athletes: playing
time and money." John Paxson, professional
basketball player
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Posted 03.18.10 "We
think TV exposure is so important to our program
and so important to this university that we will
schedule ourselves to fit the medium. I'll play
at midnight if that's what TV wants." Paul
"Bear" Bryant, college football coach
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Posted 03.17.10 "Life
is like boxing. You've only got so many punches
to throw, and you can only take so many."
George Foreman, boxer
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Posted 03.16.10 "There's
nothing worse than a sorry, pitiful, whining
teammate." Charles Barkley, basketball player
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Posted 03.15.10 "If
(Jack) Nicklaus tells you an ant can pull a bale
of hay, don't ask any questions, just hook him
up." Lee Trevino, golfer
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Posted 03.14.10 "If all
the year were playing holidays, To sport would
be as tedious as to work." William
Shakespeare, playwright and poet
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Posted 03.13.10 "I
could beat on other kids and steal their lunch
money and buy myself something to eat. But I
couldn't steal a father. I couldn't steal a
father's hug when I needed one." Bo Jackson,
professional football and baseball player
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Posted 03.12.10 "Good
sportsmanship and reasonable standards of
conduct are important." Ted Turner, cable TV
entrepreneur, baseball team owner and yachtsman
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Posted 03.11.10 "I
think I'll take another bite of my coffee."
Frank Gifford, Hall of Fame football player and
NFL broadcaster, while announcing the famous Ice
Bowl game
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Posted 03.10.10 "Playing
in the U.S. Open is like tip-toeing through
hell." Jerry McGee, professional golfer
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Posted 03.09.10 "It
relieves the manager of all responsibility
except to post the lineup card on the dugout
wall and make sure everybody gets to the airport
on time." Red Smith, sportswriter, on the
designated hitter rule
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Posted 03.08.10 "If the
on-deck batter is standing too close to home
plate, you brush him back." Brent Kemnitz,
baseball coach, who was suspended for the rest
of the season after one of his pitchers ended
the career of an on-deck batter with a beanball
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Posted 03.07.10 "In
ancient Rome, citizens befuddled by the
complexities of the waning empire found in
battles waged by the gladiators precisely the
simplistic relief from the government problems
of their day." James Michener, author
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Posted 03.06.10 "How
many guys we got in this league 1,500? Well,
that means there are 1,495 guys he can't lick."
Bill Parcells, football coach, referring to
his kicker, who had told the media he wanted to
get in some hits
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Posted 03.05.10 "Gentlemen,
you are about to play football for Yale. Never
again in your lives will you do anything so
important." Tad Jones, football coach
(1909-27), addressing his team
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Posted 03.04.10 "You
would have to take a stun gun or whatever and
shoot him to get him off that court. He's going
to leave it all out there." Jeff Van Gundy,
basketball coach, about Patrick Ewing,
basketball player, who played a game with a torn
Achilles tendon and led his team to a win
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Posted 03.03.10 "The
reasons I was playing the game have always been
the same. The game was all I cared about; it
never felt like a job." Dennis Rodman,
basketball player
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Posted 03.02.10 "The
most difficult aspect of dealing with
sportswriters is their assumption of moral
superiority. They insist on advising everyone."
Glenn Seaburg, Chancellor, University of
Southern California
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Posted 03.01.10 "It's
in the mindset of the players and managers to
cheat whenever they get a chance. They believe
it is the equivalent of their First Amendment
right to cheat." Durwood Merrill, baseball
umpire
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