SportByte Archives - June 2006
Posted 06.30.06
"Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest
thing to perfection that man has yet achieved."
Red Smith, sportswriter [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.29.06
"A good catcher is the quarterback, the
carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the
traffic cop, and sometimes a lot of unprintable
things. But no team gets very far without one."
Miller Huggins, Hall of Fame manager [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.28.06
"The casualty rate is three or four times higher
than any other sport. Last year, we had nine
deaths, quite a few broken backs, and quite a
few paralyzed." Eddie Arroyo, jockey, on the
sport of horse racing [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.27.06
"The more you lose, the more positive you
have to become. When you're winning, you can
ride them harder because their self-esteem is
high. If you are losing and you try to be tough,
you're asking for dissension." Rick Pitino,
college and professional basketball coach [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.26.06
"Leadership is a matter of having people look
at you and gain confidence, seeing how you
react. If you're in control, they're in
control." Tom Landry, Hall of Fame football
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Posted 06.25.06
"There's only a little margin between winning and
losing. A lot of luck is involved. It's hard to
get too excited when you know that you could
have lost as easily as you won." Doug Atkins,
professional football player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.24.06
"He can't hit, he can't run, he can't field,
he can't throw, but if there's a way to beat the
other team, he'll find it." Branch Rickey,
baseball executive, speaking about professional
baseball player Ed Stanky [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.23.06
"A team is as skittish as a herd of animals
like gazelles and a wrong word or decision can
rile them up so they never can really be set
straight again." George Plimpton, writer [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.22.06
"There's a love of the game in this city that
is very difficult to put into words. You start
off when you're very young and you never get it
out of your system. You might get married to a
woman, but basketball is still your first love."
Willie Hall, street basketball player, Harlem [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.21.06
"My catcher, Mr. Berra, is wearing a lemon on his
thumb." Casey Stengel, professional baseball
manager, referring to a lemon Yogi Berra's
mother insisted he wear on his injured thumb for
three days, contrary to the team physician's
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Posted 06.20.06
"The Edmonton Oilers without Wayne Gretzky is like
Wheel of Fortune without Vanna White."
Attributed by Joel Stein, sportswriter, to the
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Posted 06.19.06
"He was the greatest [player] in the history of
his sport, perhaps the single most innovative
North American athlete since Babe Ruth. He
changed his game." George Vecsey,
sportswriter, about Hall of Fame hockey player
Wayne Gretzky [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.18.06
"He who lives by the cheap shot dies by the
cross-check." Stan Fischler, hockey
commentator and historian [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.17.06
"Winning tends to heal uneasiness and promote job
security." Selena Roberts, sportswriter [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.16.06
"If I was half the coach on the bench that I
was in the stands, we'll have no problems."
Bob Plager, professional hockey coach [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.15.06
"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 06.14.06
"Every player who is sitting here who lifted
up the Cup for the first time will tell you the
same thing. There's no feeling like lifting up
the Stanley Cup." Wayne Gretzky, Hall of Fame
hockey player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.13.06
"I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that
is to give all I've got to help my ball club
win. I've never played any other way." Joe
DiMaggio, Hall of Fame baseball player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.12.06
"Ever to be the best and to surpass others."
Achilles, in The Odyssey, by Homer [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.11.06
"I can sympathize with Canadians whose noses
are out of joint. How would Americans feel if
the baseball commissioner was Japanese?" Bob
McKenzie, columnist, writing about the
Americanization of hockey, which Canadians feel
is their national sport [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.10.06
"Coaching is teaching. Some coaches try to make
what they do sound mysterious and complicated
when it's not... to be a good coach, you have to
be a good teacher." John Madden, Hall of Fame
football coach and award-winning broadcaster [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.09.06
"It's the kind of place where you can be a
successful neurosurgeon, but if you were a lousy
football player, people still look at you
funny." Geno DeMarco, Geneva College football
coach, on local fans [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.08.06
"It's a lot harder to be a football coach
than a President. You've got four years as
President, and they guard you. A coach doesn't
have anyone to protect him when things go
wrong." Harry Truman, U.S. President [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.07.06
"Baseball gives every American boy a chance
to excel. Not just to be as good as everyone
else, but to be better. This is the nature of
man, and this is the name of the game." Ted
Williams, Hall of Fame baseball player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.06.06
"People talk about skating, puck handling and
shooting, but the whole sport [hockey] is angles
and caroms, forgetting the straight direction
the puck is going, calculating where it will be
diverted, factoring in all the interruptions."
Wayne Gretzky, Hall of Fame hockey player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.05.06
"Running on an artificial leg at full speed is
like driving backwards at 55 miles per hour,
using only your rearview mirror to guide you."
Thomas Bourgeois, champion runner and
below-the-knee amputee [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.04.06
"For years, coaches would not allow athletes to
lift weights because it made them look
muscle-bound. Now weight training is a main part
of almost any team's training program." Lou
Ferrigno, champion bodybuilder, professional
football player and actor [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 06.03.06
"That's so when I forget how to spell my
name, I can still find my #%@# clothes." Karas
Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, who kept
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Posted 06.02.06
"It's good for them. It embarrasses a little,
but relieves them a lot. Makes them part of the
group." Vince Lombardi, Hall of Fame coach,
talking about rookie hazing in professional
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Posted 06.01.06
"These are the saddest words Tinker to Evers to
Chance. Picking forever our gonfalon bubble,
Causing a Giant to hit into a double, Words that
are heavy with nothing but trouble, Tinker to
Evers to Chance." Franklin Pierce Adams,
sportswriter and New York Giants fan, describing
with a poem the Cubs' famous double-play
combination of shortstop Joe Tinker, second
baseman Johnny Evers and first baseman Frank
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