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Archives - October 2004
Posted 10.31.04 �
"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is
calm." � Publius Syrus, writer, first century
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Posted 10.30.04 �
"Allus I do is what I please and nobody stops
me." � Gorgeous George, professional wrestler � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.29.04 �
"On this team we are all united in a common
goal: to keep my job." � Lou Holtz, college and
professional football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.28.04 �
"Every athlete is a role model, whether they
want to be or not. You have to recognize that
position." � Dale Earnhardt, champion race car
driver � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.27.04 �
"I
hate to lose. Hate, hate, hate to lose."
� George Steinbrenner, owner, New York Yankees �
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Posted 10.26.04 �
"Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell
from a tree." � Joe Dugan, professional baseball
player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.25.04 �
"Fatigue makes cowards of us all." � Vince
Lombardi, Hall of Fame football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.24.04 �
"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 10.23.04 �
"No excuse in the world counts for squat." � Mark
Schubert, U.S. Olympic swimming coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.22.04 �
"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 10.21.04 �
"All the rookies call me Mr. Long and I can't
recognize any of the music they listen to." �
Howie Long, broadcaster and Hall of Fame
football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.20.04 �
"Well, I don't think he'd enforce a rigorous
curfew." � George Will, political commentator
and baseball aficionado, when asked by TV
interviewer Roy Firestone what kind of baseball
manager U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy would be � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.19.04 �
"I was never a rah-rah guy. I was never one
of those guys that went around and rah-rahed...
Rah-rah don't get it done." � Sparky Anderson,
professional baseball player and manager � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.18.04 �
"I wouldn't throw at her, but I might brush
her back." � Johnny Allen, professional
baseball player, about Doc Cramer's contention
that he would throw at his mother � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.17.04 �
"This series is fixed. You can have it � I'm
going to the race track." � Champ Pickens,
event promoter, speaking about the 1919 World
Series � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.16.04 �
"Every sport pretends to a literature, but
people don't believe it of any other sport but
their own." � Alistair Cooke, writer and
historian � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.15.04 �
"To so many players, practice is like a pause
between their cell-phone conversations." � Mary
Conlon, professional basketball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.14.04 �
"What you're thinking, what shape your mind
is in, is what makes the biggest difference of
all." � Willie Mays, Hall of Fame baseball
player, on confidence � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.13.04 �
"Any time your defense gives up more points
than a basketball team, you're in trouble." �
Lou Holtz, champion college football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.12.04 �
"Leadership is getting people to do something they
shouldn't be able to do." � Al Roberts, college
football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.11.04 �
"Jimmy Taylor, the great fullback of the Green Bay
Packers, spent four years in college and emerged
unscarred by education." � Dick Schaap,
sportswriter, author and broadcaster � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.10.04 �
"A boy who doesn't like contact shouldn't
play football, because he isn't going to
change." � Red Blaik, Hall of Fame college
football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.09.04 �
"The first time you quit, it's hard. The
second time, it gets easier. The third time, you
don't even have to think." � Paul 'Bear'
Bryant, Hall of Fame college football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.08.04 �
"I was promised money, credit cards, apartments,
come home on weekends when I wanted to.
Everybody was promising something. It was just
who was promising me the most." � Derric Evans,
high school football player, on recruiting � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.07.04 �
"No, we ain't gonna play that. We're gonna
kick their butts." � Lee Roy Jordan, Hall of
Fame professional football player, waving off a defense
called in from the sidelines � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.06.04 �
"OK, so we don't intend to win this year, maybe
not even next year. It's the future we're
concerned with." � Chuck Knox, professional
football coach, after trading away four star
players � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.05.04 �
"Sportsmanship should be the very mortar of
an athlete but never an entity in itself for
conscious display." � Grantland Rice,
sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.04.04 �
"Winning is like shaving. You do it every
day, or you end up looking like a bum." � Jack
Kemp, professional football player and U.S.
congressman � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.03.04 �
"Whenever he was able to impart his
confidence, that part of the game just
sparkled." � Frank Clark, professional football
player, about Hall of Fame coach Tom Landry � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.02.04 �
"Whenever Rock opened his kisser, the throng
became as silent as a tomb." � Harry Grayson,
sportswriter, on Hall of Fame college football
coach Knute Rockne � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 10.01.04 �
"Just a fad � passing fancy." � Philip Wrigley,
baseball team owner, on games played after dark
under the lights � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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