SportByte� Archives � November 2014
Posted 11.30.14 � "Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently." � Cus D'Amato, boxing trainer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.29.14 � "If you make plays and the team wins, the fans will be fine. I don't worry about the fans." � Donavan McNabb, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.28.14 � "Whether in sports or politics, competition in and of itself is good." � Bill Bradley, basketball player and U.S. Senator [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.27.14 � "There's a foot difference between a halo and a noose." � Bobby Bowden, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.26.14 � "You've taken my team away from me." � Tom Landry, football coach, on the day he was fired [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.25.14 � "Fishing is a jerk at one end of the line waiting for a jerk at the other end." � Mark Twain, humorist and author [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.24.14 � "Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become." � Mary McGrory, journalist [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.23.14 � "Lifting a barbell ain't like eating no watermelon." � Toad, U.S. Olympic weightlifter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.22.14 � "The ball sailed so high that when it came down it was coated with ice." � Bill McGeehan, sportswriter, on one of Babe Ruth's home runs [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.21.14 � "He wants Texas back." � Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager, on negotiations with Fernando Valenzuela, Mexican-born pitcher [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.20.14 � "Golf is a good walk spoiled." � Mark Twain, humorist and author [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.19.14 � "He's probably never been to Minnesota." � Willie Mosconi, pool player, on infamous hustler 'Minnesota Fats' [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.18.14 � "I'm sick of people talking about money, money, money all the time." � Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.17.14 � "If (broadcaster) Howard Cosell was a sport, it would be Roller Derby." � Jimmy Cannon, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.16.14 � "I made some mistakes � my immaturity is the one thing that sticks out � but I've learned a lot. Sometimes that takes time." � Kerry Collins, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.15.14 � "A reporter asked me once if I'd ever seen (Dallas Cowboys coach) Tom Landry laugh. 'No,' I answered, 'I only played nine years.' " � Jerry Glanville, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.14.14 � "There is no room in baseball for a clown." � Chuck Dressen, baseball manager, to Bob Uecker, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.13.14 � "Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but ain't no man got to be common." � Satchel Paige, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.12.14 � "Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off." � Chi Chi Rodriguez, golfer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.11.14 � "When I watch myself on film, sometimes I don't even believe some of the things I do." � Walter Payton, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.10.14 � "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 11.09.14 � "Sport is a right of the people." � Fidel Castro, communist dictator of Cuba [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.08.14 � "I don't like money, but it quiets my nerves." � Joe Lewis, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.07.14 � "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 11.06.14 � "Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster." � Curt Simmons, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.05.14 � "Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away." � Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.04.14 � "That boy is too clumsy and too slow." � Branch Rickey, baseball executive, on then-unknown prospect Yogi Berra [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.03.14 � "I despise losing and would do anything to avoid it." � Michael Jordan, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.02.14 � "When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch." � Ty Cobb, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 11.01.14 � "I am a rich man. Just look at my arms. All of my money is in my veins." � Earl Manigault, Harlem playground basketball legend and ex-convict, on his drug history [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
 

    
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