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Archives - July 2003
Posted 07.31.03 �
"I believe in leadership. And I definitely believe
I am a leader. But I believe I lead by example..."
� Mike Piazza, baseball player � [Get
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Posted 07.30.03 �
"Society loves conformists. I'm not a
conformist. I'm a big believer in individuality,
in freedom..." � Pam Postema, female umpire � [Get
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Posted 07.29.03 �
"Ain't no man can avoid being born average,
but ain't no man got to be common..." � Satchel
Paige, Hall of Fame baseball player � [Get
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Posted 07.28.03 �
"Golf is the most fun you can have without
taking your clothes off..." � Chi Chi Rodriguez,
champion professional golfer � [Get
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Posted 07.27.03 �
"When I watch myself on film, sometimes I
don't even believe some of the things I do..." �
Walter Payton, Hall of Fame football player � [Get
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Posted 07.26.03 �
"You wolves been howling for blood all year.
Maybe this'll shut you up..." � John King,
professional baseball player, as he threw fifty
chunks of meat into the stands � [Get
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Posted 07.25.03 �
"Sport is a right of the people..." � Fidel
Castro, communist dictator of Cuba � [Get
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Posted 07.24.03 �
"I don't like money, but it quiets my
nerves..." � Joe Lewis, champion boxer � [Get
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Posted 07.23.03 �
"Things are never quite a good as they seem.
Things are never quite as bad as they seem. In
between falls reality..." � John Calipari, college
and professional basketball coach � [Get
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Posted 07.22.03 �
"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is
like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster..."
� Curt Simmons, professional baseball player � [Get
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Posted 07.21.03 �
"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 � [Get
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Posted 07.20.03 �
"That boy is too clumsy and too slow..." �
Branch Rickey, baseball executive, on then-unknown
prospect Yogi Berra � [Get
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Posted 07.19.03 �
"I despise losing and would do anything to avoid
it..." � Michael Jordan, professional basketball
player � [Get
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Posted 07.18.03 �
"When I began playing the game, baseball was about
as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch..." � Ty
Cobb, Hall of Fame baseball player � [Get
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Posted 07.17.03 �
"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 � [Get
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Posted 07.16.03 �
"Willie Mays was my childhood hero, but not
because he was a great baseball player. Because he
had a big house..." � O.J. Simpson, Hall of Fame
football player � [Get
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Posted 07.15.03 �
"Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel,
verbose, a show off. I have been called all of
these. Of course, I am..." � Howard Cosell,
broadcaster � [Get
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Posted 07.14.03 �
"Baseball is too much of a sport to be called
a business, and too much of a business to be
called a sport..." � Phillip K. Wrigley, baseball
team owner � [Get
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Posted 07.13.03 �
"I don't need to be practicing, I'm leading
this tournament. You guys go on and practice,
because you're behind..." � Lee Trevino, champion
golfer, to fellow competitors after a good first
round � [Get
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Posted 07.12.03 �
"A lot of parents think kids ought to learn
responsibility from work, and I've always said,
'Baloney.' Kids learn leadership and organization
from games, from having fun..." � John Madden,
professional football coach and broadcaster � [Get
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Posted 07.11.03 �
"A guy strung out on cocaine cares about
setting an example for kids? He cares about
stuffing his nose with cocaine. Period..." � Jim
Brown, Hall of Fame football player � [Get
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Posted 07.10.03 �
"When you're ten, eleven, and twelve, the
most important lesson you can have in sports is to
have fun..." � Grant Hill, professional basketball
player � [Get
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Posted 07.09.03 �
"When all is said and done, as a rule, more is
said than done..." � Lou Holtz, college and
professional football coach � [Get
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Posted 07.08.03 �
"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is
calm..." � Publius Syrus, writer, first century
B.C. � [Get
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Posted 07.07.03 �
"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard,
you'll be hard to beat..." � Herschel Walker,
professional football player � [Get
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Posted 07.06.03 �
"In this country, when you finish second, no one
knows your name..." � Frank McGuire, champion
basketball coach � [Get
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Posted 07.05.03 �
"You couldn't play on my Amazing Mets without
having held some kind of record, like one fella
held the world's international all-time record for
a pitcher getting hit on the ankles..." � Casey
Stengel, Hall of Fame baseball manager � [Get
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Posted 07.04.03 �
"My family is the most important thing to me.
I love basketball, but I need my family around
me..." � Karl Malone, all-star professional
basketball player � [Get
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Posted 07.03.03 �
"When the astronauts walked on the moon I figured
we had a chance to win. Nothing seemed impossible
after that..." � Tug McGraw, all-star pitcher,
describing the 'Miracle Mets' of 1969 � [Get
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Posted 07.02.03 �
"Sports is the toy department of human life..." �
Howard Cosell, broadcaster � [Get
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Posted 07.01.03 �
"Football doesn't build character. It eliminates
the weak ones..." � Darrell Royal, Hall of Fame
college football coach � [Get thousands of
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