SportByte Archives - April 2006
Posted 04.30.06
"We avoided guys who could play the piano."
Paul Brown, Hall of Fame professional football
coach and team owner, on his team's NFL draft
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Posted 04.29.06
"I got into this business because I got tired
of beating up people for free." Larry Holmes,
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Posted 04.28.06
"I don't like money, but it quiets my nerves."
Joe Louis, champion boxer [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.27.06
"Listen, if you start worrying about the people in
the stands, before too long you're up in the
stands with them." Tommy Lasorda, professional
baseball manager [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.26.06
"I'll moider da bum." Tony Galento,
heavyweight boxer, when asked what he thought of
William Shakespeare [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.25.06
"There's about a foot difference between a
halo and a noose." Bobby Bowden, champion
college football coach [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.24.06
"Ruth must have admired records because he
created so many of them." Red Smith,
sportswriter, on Hall of Fame baseball player
Babe Ruth [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.23.06
"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
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Posted 04.22.06
"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can
envision the fact that you can do something, you
can do it as long as you really believe 100%."
Arnold Schwarzenegger, bodybuilder, actor and
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Posted 04.21.06
"Managing is like holding a dove in your
hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard
enough and it flies away." Tommy Lasorda,
professional baseball manager [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.20.06
"A champion is one who gets up when he can't
see." Jack Dempsey, champion boxer [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.19.06
"When he didn't remember our anniversary, I knew
he was OK." Lisa McCaffrey, wife of
professional football player Ed McCaffrey,
referring to her husband's concussion [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.18.06
"He wants Texas back." Tommy Lasorda,
Dodgers manager, on negotiations with
Mexican-born pitcher Fernando Valenzuela [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.17.06
"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 04.16.06
"It's like a gunfight: When you draw, you
don't have time to look, only to react." Bobby
Hammond, professional football player, about
receiving punts and kickoffs [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.15.06
"Football is the quintessential American
sport: lots of violence punctuated by committee
meetings." George Will, political analyst and
baseball aficionado [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.14.06
"Could I be a good coach and lose? To me,
that's like asking if a guy can be a good doctor
even though his patients keep dying." Red
Auerbach, Hall of Fame basketball coach and
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Posted 04.13.06
"I fought the wall, and the wall won."
Dmitri Young, professional baseball player,
after dropping a fly ball when he ran into the
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Posted 04.12.06
"You win on Sunday, but you can't expect them
to roll over for you next week. You've got to go
out there next week and prove you're a winner
again." Sam Huff, Hall of Fame football player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.11.06
"What's important is that kids discover that
baseball is fun and that it gets to be more
fun as you get better at it." Mickey Mantle,
Hall of Fame baseball player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.10.06
"The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a
strong body, a good right arm and a weak mind."
Dizzy Dean, Hall of Fame baseball player and
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Posted 04.09.06
"Nobody running at full speed has either a head or
a body." William Butler Yeats, poet [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.08.06
"You wonder why teams lose? That's a perfect
example, if they can't recognize talent like
that." Fran Tarkington, Hall of Fame football
player, about Amad Rashad, who had been passed
up in the NFL draft by three losing franchises [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.07.06
"Something magical happens to every writer
who goes to the Masters for the first time, some
sort of emotional experience that results in a
search party having to be sent out to recover
his typewriter from a clump of azaleas." Dan
Jenkins, writer [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.06.06
"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, coach
and manager, referring to sportswriters [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.05.06
"Get your ass out of my office, Dr. Dayton.
You've got ten minutes to clean your [expletive
deleted] out of my locker room and ten more
minutes to get off campus. I'll mail your last
check." Paul "Bear" Bryant, Hall of Fame
college football coach, to the Texas A&M team
doctor, whom he felt was too protective of
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Posted 04.04.06
"When a kid has given you the best he has to
give, and you have to tell him it wasn't good
enough, that's when you ache inside and think
maybe there's a better way to make a living."
Vince Lombardi, Hall of Fame football coach [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.03.06
"I've got enough problems keeping myself
under control without putting some [expletive
deleted] in my body that's supposed to make me
wild. I do alright on that without any help."
Dennis Rodman, professional basketball player,
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Posted 04.02.06
"If desire is what we want and dedication is the
price we pay to get what we want, then
determination is what keeps us there." Dennis
Green, professional football coach [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 04.01.06
"Outlined against the blue-gray October sky, the
Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they
are know as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and
Death. These are only aliases. Their real names
are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden."
Grantland Rice, sportswriter, writing on Oct.
28, 1924, about the famed Notre Dame football
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