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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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