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SportByte™ Archives - June 2006

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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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 orders — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 Canadian House leader — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 06.17.06 — "Winning tends to heal uneasiness and promote job security." — Selena Roberts, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 06.12.06 — "Ever to be the best and to surpass others." — Achilles, in The Odyssey, by Homer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 a color photo of himself above his locker — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 football — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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 Chance — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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