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Archives - February 2006
Posted 02.28.06 �
"Once a player becomes bigger than the team,
you no longer have a team. � Red Auerbach, Hall
of Fame basketball coach and executive � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.27.06 �
"Well, this year I'm told that the team did
well because one pitcher had a fine curve ball.
I understand that a curve ball is thrown with a
deliberate attempt to deceive. Surely that is
not an ability we should want to foster at
Harvard. � Charles William Eliot, president of
Harvard, 1869-1909, when asked why he wished to
drop baseball as a college sport � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.26.06 �
"If you see a defense with dirt and mud on
their backs, they've had a bad day. � John
Madden, champion professional football coach and
Emmy Award-winning broadcaster � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.25.06 �
"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I
was in a slump or feeling badly or having
trouble off the field, the only thing to do was
keep swinging. � Hank Aaron, Hall of Fame
baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.24.06 �
"Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in
a very unorderly world. If you get three
strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't
get you off. � Bill Veeck, baseball team owner � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.23.06 �
"Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and
visible expression of the drive and push and
rush and struggle of the raging, tearing,
booming 19th century. � Mark Twain, writer and
humorist � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.22.06 �
"I won't do it on Thursdays because I don't
get paid to do it on Thursdays. � Alex Karras,
Hall of Fame professional football player,
discussing his practice habits � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.21.06 �
"Medicine is just about life and death. Sports is
more important than that. � Andrew Edgar,
philosopher � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.20.06 �
"Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put the two
of them together and you have a kingdom. � Jack
Lalanne, fitness guru � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.19.06 �
"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, Hall of Fame professional baseball
manager � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.18.06 �
"If you have hope, there's light at the end of the
tunnel. Hope makes you better. The air in the
locker room is different when you have hope. �
Dixon Ward, professional hockey player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.17.06 �
"As long as my pitchers throw strikes, I'll have
patience. But when they start walking people and
getting behind � I don't need that. � Lou
Pinella, professional baseball player and
manager � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.16.06 �
"I've seen him make chicken salad out of
chicken feathers many times. � John Brockington,
professional football player, about Hall of Fame
running back Walter Payton � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.15.06 �
"The ball goes through the net, the team gets
the two points. A player hardly ever scores by
himself. � Ervin 'Magic' Johnson, Hall of Fame
professional basketball player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.14.06 �
"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
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Posted 02.13.06 �
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks
will accomplish nothing in life. � Muhammad Ali,
champion boxer � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.12.06 �
"Part of the charm of the Winter Olympics is that
ice skating and all the rest of those Olympic
sports completely disappear for four years at a
time. � Dan Jenkins, writer and best-selling
author � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.11.06 �
"In wrestling you never see anybody get
seriously hurt. When was the last time you heard
of a wrestler who was out for the season with a
knee injury? � Darryl Dawkins, professional
basketball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.10.06 �
"If the doctors had told me that I might die
playing football, I'd have asked them what the
chances were � 'Give me the odds, Doc" � that's
how much I wanted to play. � Jack Youngblood,
Hall of Fame football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.09.06 �
"I don't look at football as a career. It's a
stepping stone. I know too many ballplayers who
were lost when opportunity didn't knock on their
door. � Frenchy Fuqua, professional football
player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.08.06 �
"He can take his'n and beat your'n, or he can
take your'n and beat his'n. � Bum Phillips,
commenting on fellow professional football coach
Don Shula � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.07.06 �
"Why do I have to talk to these guys who make
$6,000 a year when I make $40,000 a year? � Yogi
Berra, Hall of Fame baseball player, alluding to
sportswriters � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.06.06 �
"This community doesn't want academic
excellence. It wants a gladiatorial spectacle on
a Friday night. � Dorothy Fowler, high school
teacher in Odessa, Texas � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.05.06 �
"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 football coach and player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.04.06 �
"The hardest thing about prize fighting is picking
up your teeth with a boxing glove on. � Kin
Hubbard, humorist and author � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.03.06 �
"Each is the last to learn from fate, That
his story is finished � and out of date. �
Grantland Rice, sportswriter, on the
inevitability of retirement for athletes � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.02.06 �
"College football would be more interesting
if the faculty played instead of the students �
there would be a great increase in broken arms,
legs and necks. � H.L. Mencken, humorist and
author � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 02.01.06 �
"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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