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SportByte™ Archives — June 2011

 

 

 

 

 
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Posted 06.30.11 — "There's a lot of people in this sport that live through their kids. We'll never do that." — Jack Lipinski, father of Olympic gold medalist figure skater Tara Lipinski [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.29.11 — "Whitey (Ford) and Mick (Mickey Mantle) both made the Hall of Fame and I didn't. I wasn't a bad influence on them, they were a bad influence on me." — Billy Martin, baseball player and manager, who was often accused in the press of being the instigator of the trio's boisterous, off-the-field shenanigans [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.28.11 — "The federal government in all its majesty is worried that sports broadcasters do sinister things, like rooting for the home team." — George Will, writer, commentator and baseball aficionado [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.27.11 — "I like to throw the ball. To me, the pro game is throwing. I may be wrong, but putting the ball in the air is the way to win." — Y.A. Tittle, NFL quarterback [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.26.11 — "Baby, no one sends in plays for Francis." — Fran Tarkenton, NFL quarterback, when asked who called his team's plays [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.25.11 — "Half the time the scouts have their heads down making notes and don't even see which way the ball is hit." — Tom Greenwade, professional baseball scout [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.24.11 — "Everything in a game happens by chance, so what you're doing is trying to make your own breaks." — Nate Allen, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.23.11 — "Good to meet you. A writer, huh? What paper you with Ernie?" — Yogi Berra, baseball player, upon being introduced to Ernest Hemingway [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.22.11 — "I don't understand what kind of damn radio that can be if you can't get a score of a ball game on it." — Harry Caray, broadcaster, to a taxi driver who only had a dispatch radio in his cab [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.21.11 — "Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room checked first for a gun. You couldn't take chances with some of those birds." — Casey Stengel, baseball manager [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.20.11 — "Mexican baseball is exactly like American baseball, except for the extraneous embellishments. They work the hit and run and turn the double-play ball, but they don't sell the hot dog." — Peter Golenboch, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.19.11 — "Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel. Not just to be as good as everyone else, but to be better. This is the nature of man, and this is the name of the game." — Ted Williams, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.18.11 — "Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved." — Red Smith, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.17.11 — "Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers." — Merle Kessler, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.16.11 — "I don't need to hit a home run anymore. I only have to hit a single. I do everything for the team. I just want to win." — Sammy Sosa, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.15.11 — "Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo." — Tony Kornheiser, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.14.11 — "You can play very well and lose, or play very badly and win. Things can happen. And you know what? That's just the way it goes." — Carl Eller, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.13.11 — "You can be sold, traded or released at will. You are carried on the books as a depreciable capital asset and exist like a piece of chattel." — Rick Sortun, professional football player, on the business of sports [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.12.11 — "My father always told me in the midst of adversity, in the midst of a struggle, 'It builds character. Stay strong, be positive, look ahead, don't look back.' " — Bruce Smith, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.11.11 — "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." — Vince Lombardi, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.10.11 — "One sign of a hero is if you feel enhanced simply when talking about him — recounting his feats, recalling a time when your own little life was touched by his." — Roger Rosenblatt, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.09.11 — "Football is unique and good. Where else in life do you see dedication and teamwork and spirit? People enjoy it because it is reassuring to them to see good things." — Woody Hayes, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.08.11 — "I'm just a ball player with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my club win. I've never played any other way." — Joe DiMaggio, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.07.11 — "It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." — Hank Aaron, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.06.11 — "Just once I'd like to see a picture of one of these guys with the caption 'He's a dog' underneath it. Ate up $8,000 worth of groceries in four years and can't play worth a lick." — Abe Lemons, college basketball coach, on recruiting [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.05.11 — "The hardest part of any slump is looking up at the scoreboard and seeing your stats in huge numbers." — Jason Giambi, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.04.11 — "I don't look on football as a career. It's a stepping stone. I know too many ballplayers who were lost when opportunity didn't knock on their door." — Frenchy Fuqua, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.03.11 — "I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance between my left ear and my right." — Ben Crenshaw, golfer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.02.11 — "A lot of people run a race to see who's fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts." — Steve Prefontaine, middle and long-distance runner [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 06.01.11 — "No matter how long you have been playing, you still get butterflies before the big ones." — Pee Wee Reese, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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