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Archives - November 2005
Posted 11.30.05 �
"The sport is bigger than the man. Any man.
Nobody ever shaped the decathlon in his own
image." � Bruce Jenner, Olympic decathlon gold
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Posted 11.29.05 �
"I believe there is winning and misery and even
when we win I'm miserable." � Pat Riley,
champion professional basketball coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.28.05 �
"Sooner or later, God takes it away from all
of them � all of them." � Bill Parcells,
champion professional football coach, on ageing � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.27.05 �
"I was never knocked out. I've been unconscious,
but it's always been on my feet." � Floyd
Patterson, champion boxer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.26.05 �
"There is no way you will ever be a great
player unless you want it." � Bobby
Knight, champion college basketball coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.25.05 �
"Some of us shake on the outside, some of us
on the inside." � Roberto Clemente, Hall of Fame
baseball player, on getting "butterflies" � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.24.05 �
"Gipp is no football player. He's a runaway
son-of-a-#####." � John J. McEwan, college
football coach, on All-America Notre Dame
football player George "The Gipper" Gipp � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.23.05 �
"If you want to know the truth, I never liked
the ... players I butted helmets with. Not even
when the game had ended." � Dick Butkus, Hall of
Fame professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.22.05 �
"More than any other individual, Jack Dempsey
created big-time sports in America." � Roger
Kahn, best-selling writer, on the heavyweight
champion boxer (1919-1926) � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.21.05 �
"There's about a foot difference between a
halo and a noose." � Bobby Bowden, champion
college football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.20.05 �
"Just a fad � passing fancy." � Philip Wrigley,
baseball owner, on baseball played after dark
under the lights � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.19.05 �
"This is, above all, a game of movement, of
accuracy, of flow." � Harvey Araton,
sportswriter, on basketball � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.18.05 �
"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 11.17.05 �
"Sports do not build character. They reveal
it." � Heywood Hale Broun, writer and
broadcaster � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.16.05 �
"Awards become corroded; friends gather no dust."
� Jesse Owens, Olympic track and field gold
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Posted 11.15.05 �
"No sport, save possibly steeplechasing and
football, is so good a school ... as polo." �
George S. Patton, U.S. Army general � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.14.05 �
"The only guys I care about are the other 24
guys on my team." � Ken Griffey, Jr.,
professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.13.05 �
"I slept like a baby � I woke up and cried
every two hours." � Fred Taylor, professional
football player, after a loss � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.12.05 �
"Boxing is the sport to which all other sports
aspire." � George Foreman, champion boxer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.11.05 �
"A good driver is a helluva lot harder to
find than a good wife." � Lee Trevino,
thrice-married champion professional golfer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.10.05 �
"You're out, and you're ugly, too." � Durwood
Merrill, Major League Baseball umpire � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.09.05 �
"The ironic thing is that I've never seen (team
owner Al Davis) and Darth Vader in the same
place." � Howie Long, Hall of Fame football
player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.08.05 �
"I've never known a football writer who ever
had to stand up to a blitz." � Joe Namath, Hall
of Fame football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.07.05 �
"The principle is competing against yourself. It's
about self-improvement, about being better than
you were the day before." � Steve Young, Hall of
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Posted 11.06.05 �
"The players tried to take the field, the marching
band refused to yield, do you remember what was
the deal, the day, the music died?" � Don
McLean, musician, American Pie � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.05.05 �
"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 11.04.05 �
"Talent is God-given, be humble; fame is
man-given, be thankful; conceit is self-given,
be careful." � Anonymous, quoted often by
champion college basketball coach John Wooden � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.03.05 �
"Gentlemen, you are about to play football for
Yale. Never again in your lives will you do
anything so important." � Tad Jones, college
football coach, to his Yale Bulldogs team, circa
1920 � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.02.05 �
"Since the earliest days of the human race,
physical strength above the ordinary has been
admired, envied, and striven for by the majority
of men." � D.P. Willoughby, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 11.01.05 �
"Jimmy Taylor, the great fullback of the
Green Bay Packers, spent four years in college and
emerged unscathed by education." � Dick Schaap,
sportswriter, author and broadcaster � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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