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SportByte™ Archives — October 2011

 

 

 

 

 
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Posted 10.31.11 — "Forget love and Esperanto: The only two international gauges are music and sports." — Steve Rushin, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.30.11 — "I built my American dream one rep at a time." — Bob Paris, champion bodybuilder [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.29.11 — "A wide receiver just has to be flexible and give the quarterback a break." — Sammy White, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.28.11 — "My high comes from victory. Sports are my drugs." — Jean-Claude Killy, Olympic gold medalist skier [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.27.11 — "This series is fixed. You can have it — I'm going to the race track." — Champ Pickens, promoter, on the 1919 World Series that was tainted by what became known as the Black Sox Scandal [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.26.11 — "Luck is the residue of design." — Branch Rickey, baseball executive [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.25.11 — "Nobody trained like Joe Louis. He always wore white knit trunks with a white tank top and black boxing shoes with white socks. He was all business." — Lou Duva, boxing trainer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.24.11 — "Mickey was like Marilyn Monroe. He didn't have to be the greatest ballplayer. He had that charisma." — Hank Aaron, baseball player, on Mickey Mantle, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.23.11 — "The hardest part of losing is knowing you have failed those who are depending on you." — Johnny Roach, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.22.11 — "Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can win, you won't." — Jerry West, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.21.11 — "If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out, and it wouldn't be the monkey." — Lyle Alzado, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.20.11 — "More than any other individual, (boxer) Jack Dempsey created big-time sports in America." — Roger Kahn, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.19.11 — "Karras always has been ready on Sundays, keyed up so intensely that he vomits just before kickoff time." — Myron Cope, sportswriter, on Alex Karras, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.18.11 — "Sports owners have always been scum. Players have always been greedy. The average fan has always been treated like crap." — Mike Lupica, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.17.11 — "Someday they're gonna write a blues song just for fighters. It'll be for slow guitar, soft trumpet and a bell." — Sonny Liston, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.16.11 — "My toughest fight was with my first wife." — Muhammad Ali, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.15.11 — "He went from warm to red hot. You could hear him laughing or shouting for five blocks." — Wellington Mara, NFL team owner, on Vince Lombardi, NFL coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.14.11 — "He's got the heart of a lion. He may be the type of player that comes around once in a thousand years." — Tom Watson, golfer, on Tiger Woods, golfer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.13.11 — "I will not permit 30 men to travel 400 miles to agitate a bag of wind." — Andrew Dickson White, President, Cornell University, who would not allow his football team to travel to play Michigan [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.12.11 — "If I could make more money running a supermarket, I'd run a supermarket. My best thing is driving cars... It's a business, like any other business." — Richard Petty, race car driver [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.11.11 — "College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students — there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks." — H.L. Mencken, humorist and author [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.10.11 — "I'm not much of a golfer. I don't have any friends. And, all I like to do the day of a game is go home and be alone and worry about ways not to lose." — Paul 'Bear' Bryant, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.09.11 — "You wolves been howling for blood all year. Maybe this'll shut you up." — John King, baseball player, as he threw fifty chunks of meat into the stands [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.08.11 — "In pro football, the college draft is what makes good teams great, as the youngsters imbue a team with their youth and enthusiasm, pushing the veterans to play harder, and sometimes pushing them out." — Peter Golenboch, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.07.11 — "Coaching is teaching. Some coaches try to make what they do sound mysterious and complicated when it's not... to be a good coach, you have to be a good teacher." — John Madden, football coach, writer and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.06.11 — "Things are never quite a good as they seem. Things are never quite as bad as they seem. In between falls reality." — John Calipari, basketball coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.05.11 — "The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own." — Bill Bradley, basketball player and U.S. Senator [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.04.11 — "What's bigger than butterflies? A buzzard? I had a buzzard in my stomach." — Allen Iverson, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.03.11 — "Some of us shake on the outside, some of us on the inside." — Roberto Clemente, baseball player, on butterflies [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.02.11 — "Teamwork is the essence of life." — Pat Riley, basketball player and coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 10.01.11 — "Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones." — Darrell Royal, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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