SportByte Archives
November 2010
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Posted 11.30.10
"Professional athletes should not be role
models. Hell, I know drug dealers who can dunk.
Can drug dealers be role models?" Charles
Barkley, professional basketball player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
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of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.29.10 "The
greatest accolade is silence." Dolly Stark,
basketball official, on officiating [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
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Posted 11.28.10 "The
sportswriter whose horizons are no wider than
the outfield fences is a bad sportswriter."
Red Smith, sportswriter [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.27.10 "Have you
ever seen a Fellini movie? My life is like a
Fellini movie." George Karl, basketball coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
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of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.26.10 "Which game
do I like better? I like baseball better in the
spring. I like football better in the fall."
Bo Jackson, baseball and football player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
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of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.25.10 "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 [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.24.10 "The box
score always adds up politics never does."
James Reston, journalist and author [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
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Posted 11.23.10 "The will to
win is grossly overstated. The will to prepare
is far more important." Bobby Knight,
basketball coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.22.10 "If you make
plays and the team wins, the fans will be fine.
I don't worry about the fans." Donavan McNabb,
football player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.21.10 "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 [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.20.10 "There
are two kinds of football coaches. The kind that
have just been fired and the kind that are going
to get fired." Bum Phillips, professional
football coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
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of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.19.10 "Football
players, like prostitutes, are in the business
of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of
strangers." Merle Kessler, writer [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
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of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.18.10 "Baseball
is pieces of minutiae that need belaboring."
Bill Sheft, writer [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
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Posted 11.17.10 "Ninety
feet between the bases is the nearest thing to
perfection that man has yet achieved." Red
Smith, sportswriter [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
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Posted 11.16.10 "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 11.15.10 "Whoever
wants to know the heart and mind of America had
better learn baseball." Jacques Barzun, writer [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
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of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.14.10 "The
Yankees are baseball." Joe Torre,
baseball player and manager [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.13.10 "Baseball
is a worrying thing." Stan Coveleshi, writer [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
The Ultimate Dictionary
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Posted 11.12.10 "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 [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.11.10 "You
spend a good piece of your life gripping a
baseball and in the end it turns out that it was
the other way around all the time." Jim Bouton,
baseball player and writer [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.10.10 "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 [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
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of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.09.10 "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 [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.08.10 "I
don't understand what kind of #### 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 [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
The Ultimate Dictionary
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Posted 11.07.10 "Good
to meet you. A writer, huh? What paper you with
Ernie?" Yogi Berra, baseball player, upon
being introduced to Ernest Hemingway [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.06.10 "Games
lubricate the body and the mind." Benjamin
Franklin, United States patriot, Founding Father
and inventor [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.05.10 "Everything
in a game happens by chance, so what you're
doing is trying to make your own breaks." Nate
Allen, football player, on luck [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.04.10 "Half
the time the scouts have their heads down making
notes and don't even see which way the ball is
hit." Tom Greenwade, baseball scout [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.03.10 "Talent
is God-given, be humble; fame is man-given, be
thankful; conceit is self-given, be careful."
Anonymous (quoted often by basketball coach John
Wooden) [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
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Posted 11.02.10 "It's
not the fact that men love football that makes
modern woman want to scream ... It's the
assumption that she is incapable of loving it,
too." Sally Jenkins, writer [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 11.01.10 "Baby,
no one sends in plays for Francis." Fran
Tarkenton, quarterback, when asked who called
his team's plays [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's
The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
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