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SportByte™ Archives — August 2012

 

 

 

 

 
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Posted 08.31.12 — "I've never known anybody who played for him that didn't like him. Of course, I've never known anybody who played against him who did like him!" — Bill Russell, basketball player and coach, on Red Auerbach, basketball coach and executive [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.30.12 — "Fan and foe alike have always agreed on one point: Red Auerbach is undoubtedly the genius of basketball." — Lawrence F. O'Brien, NBA Commissioner, on the longtime team executive and coach of the Boston Celtics [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.29.12 — "Four set! ... uh, red, right ... uh, 22 ... Ah, ####, son-of-a-#####, time-out." — Don Meredith, football player and broadcaster, during a televised game as the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.28.12 — "You have to strap it on and go get them." — Roger Clemens, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.27.12 — "You can't treat it as any game. Do that and you have a short season. Every game is important, and you always like to start off with a win after all that training." — Gayle Sayers, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.26.12 — "You didn't beat me. You merely finished in front of me." — Hal Higdon, writer and runner [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.25.12 — "What's to worry about? These L.A. goofballs are positively guaranteed to screw up and lose it." — Red Auerbach, basketball executive, referring to a looming championship game between the Los Angeles Lakers and his Boston Celtics, who went on to win the game [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.24.12 — "People thought I was ruthless, which I was. I didn't give a darn who was on the other side of the net. I'd knock you down if you got in the way." — Althea Gibson, tennis player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.23.12 — "No one can throw a fastball past me. God could come down from Heaven, and He couldn't throw it past me." — Ted Williams, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.22.12 — "Never go to bed a loser." — George Halas, football coach and team owner [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.21.12 — "I won't let you take advantage of me. I'll kill you before I ever let you take advantage of me." — Kevin Garnett, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.20.12 — "I come to play. I come to beat you. I come to kill you." — Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.19.12 — "If beating someone as badly and as quickly as I could is having a killer instinct, then, okay, you can call it that." — Don Budge, tennis player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.18.12 — "I always thought I was better ... Anybody who doesn't think that shouldn't be out on the course." — Sam Snead, golfer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.17.12 — "You have no control what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do." — A.J. Kitt, Olympic gold medalist skier [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.16.12 — "When someone tells me there is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, 'I'm gonna prove you wrong.' " — Picabo Street, Olympic gold medalist skier [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.15.12 — "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 08.14.12 — "My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." — Hank Aaron, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.13.12 — "I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it." — Gale Sayers, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.12.12 — "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." — Vince Lombardi, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.11.12 — "Attention to detail instills pride and discipline." — D. Wayne Lukas, horse trainer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.10.12 — "A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing." — Payne Stewart, golfer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.09.12 — "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 08.08.12 — "The athlete knows he controls what happens to him. He blames no one but himself when things go wrong." — George Sheehan, runner and writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.07.12 — "Players today are faster, stronger and better. This is a different game." — Jason Williams, professional basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.06.12 — "People train much harder than they did before ... Is there a limit? Athletes don't think that way." — Bill Rogers, marathon runner [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.05.12 — "I have the greatest job in the world." — Derek Jeter, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.04.12 — "Don't think of him as a dumb jock. Think of him as a smart guy who can kick your butt." — From an advertisement for Men's Health Magazine [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.03.12 — "All I am is a basketball player. That's who I am and what I am. And when I realized that, it made me feel relieved and happy." — Michael Jordan, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.02.12 — "I'd like to refer to this whole thing from start to finish as a Mickey Mouse operation, but that would be an insult to Mickey Mouse." — Bobby Knight, basketball coach, after being arrested and arguing with police [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


Posted 08.01.12 — "When you pick up a bow to shoot your first arrow, you are partaking in an activity dating back at least 20,000 years. The bow and arrow are pictured in drawings ... on a cave wall in Spain's Valltorta Gorge." — K.M. Haywood and C.F. Lewis, archers [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]


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