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Archives - February 2005
Posted 02.28.05 �
"If I don't make it to the NBA, I'm gonna be
a drug dealer. Somehow I gotta get me a Lexus.
Whatever it takes." � Booger Smith, high school
basketball player (the opening line of the
documentary Soul in the Hole � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.27.05 �
"Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.
Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd
be easier for me if I was a little crazier � and
a little more patient." � Bo Jackson,
professional baseball and football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.26.05 �
"I am delighted to view any sport that may be
safely engaged in." � Charles Dickens, novelist � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.25.05 �
"Don't let anyone outwork you." � Attributed
to Derek Jeter's father, by Derek Jeter,
professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.24.05 �
"Try to exercise, eat better, try to do some
fun things with my wife." � Tom Davis, college
basketball coach, on what he was going to do
after he was fired � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.23.05 �
"Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part."
� Elgin Baylor, Hall of Fame basketball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.22.05 �
"I find that prayers work best when you have
big players." � Knute Rockne, Hall of Fame
college football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.21.05 �
"God gets you to the plate, but once you're there
you're on your own." � Ted Williams, Hall of
Fame baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.20.05 �
"The most beautiful thing in the world is a ball
park filled with people." � Bill Veeck, baseball
owner and racetrack operator � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.19.05 �
"Thrust against pain, pain is the purifier."
� Percy Cerutty, Australian Olympic coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.18.05 �
"Any American boy can be a basketball star if
he grows up, up, up." � Bill Vaughn, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.17.05 �
"When the going gets tough, the tough get
going." � Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President,
conservationist and sportsman � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.16.05 �
"I'm more likely to get hurt bumping into
things around the house." � Walter Payton, Hall
of Fame football player, about injuries � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.15.05 �
"Don't try to perform beyond your abilities �
but never perform below them." � Frank Robinson,
baseball player and manager � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.14.05 �
"The greatest horror of coaching is losing."
� Joe Schmidt, professional football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.13.05 �
"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 02.12.05 �
"You've gotta have a lot of little boy in you
to play this game." � Roy Campanella, Hall of
Fame baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.11.05 �
"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 02.10.05 �
"All great fishermen go to bed early." � Ted
Williams, Hall of Fame baseball player and
world-class fisherman � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.09.05 �
"In a universal sense, football is so
insignificant, it's ridiculous." � Pat Hayden,
professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.08.05 �
"There's no such thing as a 'presumed' record.
It's either a record or it's not." � Seymour
Siwoff, statistician, Elias Sports Bureau � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.07.05 �
"Who knows? Amid world beating hearts, The
tumult and the Shouting starts." � Grantland
Rice, sportswriter, on hype � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.06.05 �
"Be reasonable: Do it my way." � sign on the
desk of John Calipari, college and professional
basketball coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.05.05 �
"I can buy any one of these sons-of-#######
for a $5 steak." � George Weiss, baseball
executive, about sportswriters � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.04.05 �
"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success." �
Charles O. Finley, Major League Baseball owner � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.03.05 �
"I do believe that my best hits border on
felonious assault." � Jack Tatum, professional
football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.02.05 �
"Recruiting is like shaving. Do it every day
or you will look like a bum." � Anonymous � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.01.05 �
"People talk about big targets but what the passer
wants is an open target." � Harold Jackson,
professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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