SportByte™ Archives — September 2015

Posted 09.30.15 — "If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death." — Sam Snead, professional golfer [Golf Quotes from Sam Snead]

Posted 09.29.15 — "Phil is obviously a good coach. You don't win that many games without being a damn good coach, ... Remember one thing: He's been very fortunate. He picks his spots. That's all I can say." — Red Auerbach, basketball coach and team executive, on Phil Jackson, basketball coach [Quotes from Red Auerbach]

Posted 09.28.15 — "Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around." — Larry Bird, basketball player [Larry Bird Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]

Posted 09.27.15 — "Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say 'isn't' and they ain't eating." — Dizzy Dean, baseball player [Baseball Quotes from Dizzy Dean]

Posted 09.26.15 — "But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance. If you do, the rest falls into place. You have to have good assistants, and a lot of things, but first you have to have the chairman of the board." — Paul "Bear" Bryant, football coach [Football Quotes from Bart Starr]

Posted 09.25.15 — "Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf." — Arnold Palmer, professional golfer [Golf Quotes from Arnold Palmer]

Posted 09.24.15 — "You mean right now?" — Yogi Berra, baseball player, when asked by Mickey Mantle, baseball player, "Hey, Yog, what time is it?" [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 09.23.15 — "It ain't over 'til it's over." — Yogi Berra, baseball player and manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 09.22.15 — "It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” — Vince Lombardi, football coach [Quotes from Vince Lombardi]

Posted 09.21.15 — "I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery." — Ty Cobb, baseball player [Baseball Quotes from Ty Cobb]

Posted 09.20.15 — "The fairways were so narrow you had to walk down them single file." — Sam Snead, professional golfer [Golf Quotes from Sam Snead]

Posted 09.19.15 — "Most of your great coaches do some teaching and developing of players. Phil may be able to do it, but he hasn't shown it. His teams have been ready-made." — Red Auerbach, basketball coach and team executive, on Phil Jackson, basketball coach [Quotes from Red Auerbach]

Posted 09.18.15 — "Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds." — Larry Bird, basketball player [Larry Bird Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]

Posted 09.17.15 — "It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?" — Dizzy Dean, baseball player [Baseball Quotes from Dizzy Dean]

Posted 09.16.15 — "Mama wanted me to be a preacher. I told her coachin' and preachin' were a lot alike." — Paul "Bear" Bryant, football coach [Football Quotes from Bart Starr]

Posted 09.15.15 — "Give Starr time, and he'll make a winner out of the Packers." — Tobin Rote, football player, on Green Bay Packers teammate Bart Starr [Football Quotes from Bart Starr]

Posted 09.14.15 — "When I was growing up, they had just found radio." — Arnold Palmer, professional golfer, when asked if he watched much golf on television when he was growing up [Golf Quotes from Arnold Palmer]

Posted 09.13.15 — "You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain." — Leo Durocher, baseball manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 09.12.15 — "I thought he had been shot." — Joe DiMaggio, baseball player, on what he thought had happened to Mickey Mantle, baseball player, when Mantle went down with a knee injury after tripping over an exposed drain pipe while chasing a fly ball in the 1951 World Series [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 09.11.15 — "How dumb can you be." — Casey Stengel, baseball manager, to Mickey Mantle, baseball player, after Mantle struck out on three straight high, inside pitches left-handed [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 09.10.15 — "Take it with a grin of salt." — Yogi Berra, baseball player and manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 09.09.15 — "The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” — Vince Lombardi, football coach [Quotes from Vince Lombardi]

Posted 09.08.15 — "I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat them and left them in the ditch." — Ty Cobb, baseball player [Baseball Quotes from Ty Cobb]

Posted 09.07.15 — ""Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense." — Sam Snead, professional golfer [Golf Quotes from Sam Snead]

Posted 09.06.15 — "The commercial class has always mistrusted verbal brilliancy and wit, deeming such qualities, perhaps with some justice, frivolous and unprofitable." — Red Auerbach, basketball coach and team executive [Quotes from Red Auerbach]

Posted 09.05.15 — "I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end." — Larry Bird, basketball player [Larry Bird Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]

Posted 09.04.15 — "I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one." — Honus Wagner, baseball player [Baseball Quotes from Dizzy Dean]

Posted 09.03.15 — "I won twenty-eight games in 1935 and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards send me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr. Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games." — Dizzy Dean, baseball pitcher, on his salary negotiations that year with Branch Rickey, St. Louis Cardinals team executive [Baseball Quotes from Dizzy Dean]

Posted 09.02.15 — "I was the original socially depraved, shy ghetto kid." — Bob Cousy, basketball player and coach, on growing up in a poor, ethnically diverse section of Queens in New York City  [Bob Cousy Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]

Posted 09.01.15 — "Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be one of the best." — Bart Starr, football player, on Vince Lombardi, football coach [Football Quotes from Bart Starr]

    
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