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SportByte� Archives � December 2011

 

 

 

 

 
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Posted 12.31.11 � "You have to suck it up, do what you have to do for the team to win." � Patrick Ewing, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.30.11 � "Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best." � Branch Rickey, baseball executive [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.29.11 � "Some days you want broccoli, other days Hostess Ding Dongs. Don't ask why." � Scott Tinley, triathlete [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.28.11 � "One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball." � Don Carter, champion bowler [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.27.11 � "You hit home runs not by chance, but by preparation." � Roger Maris, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.26.11 � "A boxer knocked down is the loneliest guy in the world." � Gene Tunney, champion boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.25.11 � "Our struggles against aggressors throughout our history have been won on the playgrounds and corner lots and fields of America." � John F. Kennedy, U.S. President [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.24.11 � "When all is said and done, as a rule, more is said than done." � Lou Holtz, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.23.11 � "If I do something, it must be 100 percent. There can be no 99.9." � Dominik Hasek, hockey player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.22.11 � "I probably couldn't play for me. I wouldn't like my attitude." � John Thompson, basketball coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.21.11 � "We are here for the purpose to win for the fans. That is who we work for." � Roberto Clemente, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.20.11 � "The greatest horror of coaching is losing." � Joe Schmidt, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.19.11 � "Games are the last resort of those who do not know how to idle." � Robert Lynd, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.18.11 � "A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing." � Payne Stewart, golfer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.17.11 � "The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before." � Steve Young, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.16.11 � "A good driver is a helluva lot harder to find than a good wife." � Lee Trevino, thrice-married, champion professional golfer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.15.11 � "The only guys I care about are the other 24 guys on my team." � Ken Griffey, Jr., baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.14.11 � "Awards become corroded; friends gather no dust." � Jesse Owens, Olympic track and field gold medalist [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.13.11 � "This is, above all, a game of movement, of accuracy, of flow." � Harvey Araton, sportswriter, on basketball [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.12.11 � "More than any other individual, Jack Dempsey created big-time sports in America." � Roger Kahn, best-selling writer, on the heavyweight champion boxer (1919-1926) [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.11.11 � "If you want to know the truth, I never liked the ... players I butted helmets with. Not even when the game had ended." � Dick Butkus, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.10.11 � "Gipp is no football player. He's a runaway son-of-a-#####." � John J. McEwan, football coach, on Notre Dame football player George "The Gipper" Gipp [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.09.11 � "I was never knocked out. I've been unconscious, but it's always been on my feet." � Floyd Patterson, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.08.11 � "Sooner or later, God takes it away from all of them � all of them." � Bill Parcells, football coach, on aging [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.07.11 � "The sport is bigger than the man. Any man. Nobody ever shaped the decathlon in his own image." � Bruce Jenner, Olympic decathlon gold medalist [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.06.11 � "Knocking down an offensive lineman and breaking his head open is something that I enjoy." � Alex Karras, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.05.11 � "Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put the two together and you have a kingdom." � Jack Lalanne, fitness guru [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.04.11 � "The bias against sportswriting remains large, and any good sportswriter is usually dismissed as the world's tallest midget." � Frank Deford, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.03.11 � "Pro wrestlers are wondrous athletes, traditionally in better shape than baseball players and even most football players, and they work hard at entertaining us." � Robert Lipsyte, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.02.11 � "No player gives 100 percent on every play. He can't. But if you don't on a crucial play, one that loses you a game, oh, geez, it tears you up inside." � Rick Casares, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


Posted 12.01.11 � "Let's be honest. The proper definition of an amateur today is one who accepts cash, not checks." � Jack Kelly, Jr., Sports Illustrated [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]


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