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SportByte� Archives � February 2013

 

 

 

 

 
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Posted 02.28.13 � "I don't want to knock my opponent out. I want to hit him, step away, and watch him hurt." � Joe Frazier, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.27.13 � "I am a fighter who walks, talks and thinks fighting, but I try not to look like it." � Marvelous Marvin Hagler, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.26.13 � "A boxer requires a nob as well as a statesman does a head, coolness and calculation being essential to his second efforts." �  Heywood Hale Broun, sportswriter and commentator [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.25.13 � "A boxer knocked down is the loneliest guy in the world." � Gene Tunney, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.24.13 � "This is the secret of bowling strikes! SQUEEZE the ball at the point of explosion." � Dawson Taylor, bowler [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.23.13 � "Good bowling involves repetition." � Mike Aubrey, bowler [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.22.13 � "I'm just tickled to death to get out of the house." � Carl Koch, 100-year-old bowler, who bowled a 199 [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.21.13 � "One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball."  Don Carter, bowler [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.20.13 � "Three years ago, I couldn't spell author. Now I are one." � Don Cherry, hockey player, on his authorship of a book [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.19.13 � "I've dug ditches, lubed jackhammers and manned the graveyard shift at a 7-Eleven. But the worst job I ever had was writing Wayne Gretzky's autobiography." � Rick Reilly, sportswriter, on the reluctance of Wayne Gretzky, hockey player, to talk about himself [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.18.13 � "I haven't read it yet." � Johnny Unitas, football player, on his biography [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.17.13 � "A major distinction between the athlete of today and those of yesteryear is that the old jocks rarely read books. Today, some even write them." � Howard Cosell, broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.16.13 � "You just haven't lived until you try doing four to six sets of 100 reps in various quadriceps and hamstring exercises." � Diana Dennis, bodybuilder [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.15.13 � "World governed by a savage force that swallowed me whole from a bookstore in New York City, and did not relent until it had chewed me up and spit me out 80 pounds heavier and 3,000 miles later on a posing dais in Burbank, California. I was swabbed in posing oil and competition color, flexing with all my might, when I came to, a sadder and wiser man." � Samuel Wilson Fussell, bodybuilder [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.14.13 � "Whatever it is you do in life, you can never grow in self-esteem unless you get good and pumped first and stay that way. Anytime you spend without a pump is time you can never get back again." � Franco Columbo, bodybuilder [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.13.13 � "Whatever else I do, I always want to be a kind of ambassador, a preacher for bodybuilding." � Arnold Schwarzenegger, bodybuilder, actor and California Governor [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.12.13 � "The guiding axiom in competitive bodybuilding is 'no pain, no gain.' As a result, elite bodybuilders frequently joke about being participants in 'the sport of masochists.' " � Bill Reynolds, weightlifting editor and writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.11.13 � "Sport or not, bodybuilding as an art, as a science, as a lifestyle, and as a form of entertainment is here to stay." � Fredrick C. Hatfield, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.10.13 � "Physically I don't finish a set until I literally can't work the fatigued muscle any longer. I more or less continue until the barbell actually drops from my momentarily paralyzed fingers." � Tom Platz, bodybuilder [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.09.13 � "Nice business, isn't it, professional bodybuilding? More pimps and whores than Hollywood." � Steve Machalik, bodybuilder [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.08.13 � "I built my American dream one rep at a time." � Bob Paris, bodybuilder [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.07.13 � "Form is very important. Anyone can go into the gym and lift a weight. The trick is using the proper form to make your muscles give you the results you want." � Sharon Bruneau, bodybuilder [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.06.13 � "Don't get sand kicked in your face." � Charles Atlas, bodybuilder, from an advertisement for his bodybuilding regimens [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.05.13 � "Never before has anyone swung with so much for so little." � Attributed to Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, about comedian Bob Hope's golf swing, during a wartime charity golf event [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.04.13 � "You build someone a boat, and the people who own it become your friends, and they often remain friends for years. You take that away and boatbuilding can be a kind of joyless thing." � Eric Dow, boat builder [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.03.13 � "Tracing the lines of boats is like tracing the lines of songs. It's a matter of influence. A sheer line or bow profile is transposed, and transformed, personalized and made original." � Douglas Whiynott, writer and sailor [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.02.13 � "The old working craft in which modern sailing craft have their origins have virtually disappeared from the ports of the developed nations." � Bob Bond, sailor, instructor and writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 02.01.13 � "There is nothing � absolutely nothing � half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats." � Kenneth Grahame, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


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