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Archives - June 2004
Posted 06.30.04 �
"Football is unique and good. Where else in
life do you see dedication and teamwork and
spirit? People enjoy it because it is reassuring
to them to see good things." � Woody Hayes, Hall
of Fame college football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.29.04 �
"One sign of a hero is if you feel enhanced
simply when talking about him � recounting his
feats, recalling a time when your own little
life was touched by his." � Roger Rosenblatt,
sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.28.04 �
"Listen, I'm a leader. If anyone gives me trouble
in a huddle � I don't care who they are � I'm
going to sting them." � Terry Bradshaw, Hall of
Fame football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.27.04 �
"I'll moider da bum." � Tony Galento,
heavyweight boxer, when asked what he thought of
William Shakespeare � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.26.04 �
"Mickey Mantle just was everything. At my bar
mitzvah I had an Oklahoma accent. And I think I
once told my parents, "Play me or trade me." �
Billy Crystal, comedian � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.25.04 �
"The difference between a successful person
and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack
of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." �
Vince Lombardi, Hall of Fame professional
football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.24.04 �
"My father always told me in the midst of
adversity, in the midst of a struggle, 'It
builds character. Stay strong, be positive, look
ahead, don't look back.' " � Bruce Smith,
All-Pro football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.23.04 �
"You can be sold, traded or released at will.
You are carried on the books as a depreciable
capital asset and exist like a piece of
chattel." � Rick Sortun, professional football
player, on the business of sports � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.22.04 �
"It relieves the manager of all
responsibility except to post the lineup card on
the dugout wall and make sure everybody gets to
the airport on time." � Red Smith, sportswriter,
on the designated hitter rule � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.21.04 �
"You can play very well and lose, or play very
badly and win. Things can happen. And you know
what? That's just the way it goes." � Carl
Eller, Hall of Fame professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.20.04 �
"Men are clinging to football on a level we
aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled
everything, and now, in the last ten minutes,
there are all these incursions by women. It's
our Alamo." � Tony Kornheiser, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.19.04 �
"Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to
see and listen to what they don't want to hear."
� John Madden, champion professional football
coach and Emmy-winning broadcaster � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.18.04 �
"Take away the hot dog and all its attendant
comestibles, such as peanuts, popcorn, Cracker
Jacks and egg salad sandwiches, and you'd have a
different country." � Wells Twombly,
sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.17.04 �
"I don't need to hit a home run anymore. I
only have to hit a single. I do everything for
the team. I just want to win." � Sammy Sosa,
professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.16.04 �
"The prevalent nature of the professional
football player is that of soldier of fortune.
He's trained and willing to bust people up." �
Jim Brown, Hall of Fame football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.15.04 �
"Football players, like prostitutes, are in the
business of ruining their bodies for the
pleasure of strangers." � Merle Kessler, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.14.04 �
"Losing is the great American sin." � Jerome
Holtzman, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.13.04 �
"Baseball is pieces of minutiae that need
belaboring." � Bill Sheft, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.12.04 �
"Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest
thing to perfection that man has yet achieved."
� Red Smith, sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.11.04 �
"I see great things in baseball. It is our game.
The American game. It will repair our losses and
be a blessing to us." � Walt Whitman, poet � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.10.04 �
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of
America had better learn baseball." � Jacques
Barzun, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.09.04 �
"The Yankees are baseball." � Joe Torre,
professional baseball player and manager, on the
New York Yankees � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.08.04 �
"Baseball is a worrying thing." � Stan
Coveleshi, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.07.04 �
"Baseball gives every American boy a chance to
excel. Not just to be as good as everyone else,
but to be better. This is the nature of man, and
this is the name of the game." � Ted Williams,
Hall of Fame baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.06.04 �
"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a
baseball and in the end it turns out that it was
the other way around all the time." � Jim Bouton,
professional baseball player and writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.05.04 �
"Mexican baseball is exactly like American
baseball, except for the extraneous
embellishments. They work the hit and run and
turn the double-play ball, but they don't sell
the hot dog." � Peter Golenboch, sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.04.04 �
"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 thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.03.04 �
"Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had
his room checked first for a gun. You couldn't
take chances with some of those birds." � Casey
Stengel, Hall of Fame baseball manager � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 06.02.04 �
"If the on-deck batter is standing too close to
home plate, you brush him back." � Brent Kemnitz,
coach of Wichita State, who was suspended for
the rest of the season after one of his pitchers
ended the career of an on-deck batter by beaning
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Posted 06.01.04 �
"I don't understand what kind of damn radio
that can be if you can't get a score of a ball
game on it." � Harry Caray, broadcaster, to
a taxi driver who only had a dispatch radio in
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