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SportByte� Archives � November 2011

 

 

 

 

 
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Posted 11.30.11 � "A thigh. A neck. A leg. Is it an anatomy class? A butcher's inventory? It's the National Football League's injury report!" � Ira Berkow, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.29.11 � "A man described as a 'sportsman' is generally a bookmaker who takes an actress to night clubs." � Jimmy Cannon, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.28.11 � "Having a long NFL career is an accomplishment in itself." � Joe Montana, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.27.11 � "We're not poets, philosophers or statesmen. I shoot a ball through a hoop for a living." � Grant Hill, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.26.11 � "Winning is an attitude." � John Chaney, basketball coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.25.11 � "Never go to bed a loser." � George Halas, football coach and team owner [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.24.11 � "There is an itch in runners." � Arnold Hano, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.23.11 � "A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall." � Vince Lombardi, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.22.11 � "For every pass I ever caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice." � Don Hutson, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.21.11 � "Great stars that knew their days in fame's bright sun. I heard them trampling to oblivion." � Grantland Rice, sportswriter, on the fleeting nature of fame [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.20.11 � "When I hit a guy, I'll hit him in the throat � he doesn't have pads on there." � Conrad Dobler, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.19.11 � "Each is the last to learn from fate, That his story is finished � and out of date." � Grantland Rice, sportswriter, on retirement [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.18.11 � "The five S's of sports are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit." � Ken Doherty, track coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.17.11 � "It's not a game. It's a lifestyle." � Beverly Schnellenberger, wife of Howard Schnellenberger, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.16.11 � "Somewhere in the player's contract, maybe in the fine print, it says, "You're supposed to block." � John McKay, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.15.11 � "If Howard Cosell was a sport, it would be roller derby." � Jimmy Cannon, sportswriter, on the legendary and controversial broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.14.11 � "I slept like a baby � I woke up and cried every two hours." � Fred Taylor, football player, after a loss [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.13.11 � "Glad to meet ya, Mr. Vice Prez. Love ya, but didn't vote for ya." � Don Meredith, football player and broadcaster, to U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.12.11 � "Since the earliest days of the human race, physical strength above the ordinary has been admired, envied and striven for by the majority of men." � D.P. Willoughby, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.11.11 � "I knew it was all over for me. Every system in my body was shot; my testicles had shrunk to the size of peanuts. It was only a question of which organ was going to explode on me first." � Steve Michalik, bodybuilder, on the consequences of steroid use [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.10.11 � "I owe the public nothing ... I refuse to be nice to the kiddies." � Bill Russell, basketball player and coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.09.11 � "The trouble with referees is that they just don't care which side wins." � Tom Canterbury, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.08.11 � "If I was half the coach on the bench that I was in the stands, we'll have no problems." � Bob Plager, hockey coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.07.11 � "The more difficult a victory, the greater the happiness is in winning." � Pel�, soccer player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.06.11 � "Citius, altius, fortius ... swifter, higher, stronger." � Olympic motto [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.05.11 � "I will crush you like a grape." � The phrase Mark Tuinei, football player, most liked to say to opposing linemen [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.04.11 � "This team has a chance of going all the way. So did the Titanic." � Jim Murray, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.03.11 � "No sport, save possibly steeplechasing and football, is so good a school ... as polo." � George S. Patton, U.S. Army General [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.02.11 � "Ever to be the best and to surpass others." � Achilles in Homer's The Odyssey [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 11.01.11 � "Probably a professor of English." � Jimmy Cannon, sportswriter, after learning that the house of fellow sportswriter Gene Ward had been burned down by an arsonist [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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