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September 2010
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Posted 09.30.10 "Chemistry
is b### s###. I'll tell you what gives you good
chemistry: winning. Losing gives you bad
chemistry. Mike Piazza, baseball player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
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Posted 09.29.10 "Concentration
is the ability to think about absolutely nothing
when it is absolutely necessary. Ray Knight,
baseball player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
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Posted 09.28.10 "The
ironic thing is that I've never seen (Oakland
Raiders owner Al Davis) and Darth Vader in the
same place. Howie Long, football player and
broadcaster [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
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of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 09.27.10 "He's
probably never been to Minnesota. Willie
Mosconi, pool player, on hustler and trick shot
artist Minnesota Fats [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
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Posted 09.26.10 "Those who
live in dog country dissect the Iditarod's entry
list like the Yankees batting order on opening
day. Brian Patrick O'Donoghue, columnist and
dog sled racer
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Posted 09.25.10 "Is it
normal to wake up in the morning in a cold sweat
because you can't wait to beat another human's
guts out?" Joe Kapp, football player
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Posted 09.24.10 "A perfect
pitcher is an impossible concept, as long as
major league hitters remain capable of hitting
perfect pitches." Bob Gibson, baseball player
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Posted 09.23.10 "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,
baseball player
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Posted 09.22.10 "If you
see a defense with dirt and mud on their backs,
they've had a bad day." John Madden, football
coach and broadcaster
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Posted 09.21.10 "If you
want to be a great hitter, don't go to the
movies. It ruins your eyes." Rogers Hornsby,
baseball player
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Posted 09.20.10 "My
motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was
in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble
off the field, the only thing to do was keep
swinging." Hank Aaron, baseball player
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Posted 09.19.10 "I
might have had a tough break, but I have an
awful lot to live for." Lou Gehrig, baseball
player, after learning he was afflicted with
ALS, an incurable disease
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Posted 09.18.10 "Every
great hitter works on the theory that the
pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the
pitcher." Ty Cobb, baseball player
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Posted 09.17.10 "What's
important is that kids discover that baseball is
fun and that it gets to be more fun as you get
better at it." Mickey Mantle, baseball player
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Posted 09.16.10 "Baseball
is so ingrained in Cuba that it has thrived as
the 'national sport' through 40 years of
bitterly anti-American revolution." Roberto
Gonzalez Echevarria
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Posted 09.15.10 "Jordan's
swagger, Gretzky's grace and Elway's
determination were not dulled by age or eroded
by exposure." Richard Hoffer, sportswriter
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Posted 09.14.10 "Baseball's
roadside is littered with the careers of
terrific rookie pitchers who quickly dissolved
in rusty, dented mediocrities." Daniel Okrent,
sportswriter
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Posted 09.13.10 "Managing
is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too
hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it
flies away." Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager
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Posted 09.12.10 "Baseball's
roadside is littered with the careers of
terrific rookie pitchers who quickly dissolved
in rusty, dented mediocrities." Daniel Okrent,
sportswriter
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Posted 09.11.10 "No
matter how long you have been playing, you still
get butterflies before the big ones." Pee Wee
Reese, baseball player
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Posted 09.10.10 "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, distance runner
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Posted 09.09.10 "I'm
about five inches from being an outstanding
golfer. That's the distance between my left ear
and my right." Ben Crenshaw, golfer
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Posted 09.08.10 "Talent
is God-given, be humble; fame is man-given, be
thankful; conceit is self-given, be careful."
Anonymous
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Posted 09.07.10 "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, professional football
player
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Posted 09.06.10 "Sportsmanship
should be the very mortar of an athlete but
never an entity in itself for conscious
display." Grantland Rice, sportswriter
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Posted 09.05.10 "Football
is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of
your aggressions without going to jail for it."
Heywood Hale Broun, sportswriter
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Posted 09.04.10 "If
you're going to be a champion, you must be
willing to pay a greater price than your
opponent." Bud Wilkinson, football coach
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Posted 09.03.10 "I've
been called a racist, a drunk and a quitter.
Other than that, I'm fine." Kerry Collins,
football player
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Posted 09.02.10 "If you
really want to enjoy the game and understand it,
you've got to score it." Warner Fuselle,
broadcaster, on baseball score cards
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Posted 09.01.10 "I find
that prayers work best when you have big
players." Knute Rockne, football coach
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