SportByte Archives - October 2006
Posted 10.31.06
"I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating."
Jim Finks, New Orleans Saints general manager [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.30.06
"The only players I hurt with my words are ones
with inflated opinions of their ability." Bill
Parcells, NFL head coach [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.29.06
"A saloon keeper from Beaver Falls,
Pennsylvania." Red Smith, sportswriter,
describing Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.28.06
"My college playbook was like a Dr. Seuss
book. With the 49ers, it's like a cookbook."
Terrell Owens, professional football player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.27.06
"I believe there is winning and misery and
even when we win I'm miserable." Pat Riley,
professional basketball coach [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.26.06
"Football is the closest thing we have to the
Christians and the lions." Dan Jenkins,
best-selling author [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.25.06
"Basketball is the MTV of sports." Sara
Levinson, National Football League executive [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.24.06
"The more I practice, the luckier I get."
Gary Player, champion professional golfer [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.23.06
"In a universal sense, football is so
insignificant, it's ridiculous." Pat Hayden,
professional football player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.22.06
"If their IQ's were lower, they would be
geraniums." Russ Francis, professional
football player, commenting on defensive linemen [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.21.06
"Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona
Lisa." George Steinbrenner, New York Yankees
owner [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.20.06
"The man who complains about the way the ball
bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it."
Lou Holtz, champion college football coach [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.19.06
"If I had my life to live over again, I'd
have ended up a sportswriter." Richard M.
Nixon, 37th president of the United States [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.18.06
"Ninety percent of the game is half mental."
Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame baseball player and
manager [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.17.06
"I might have had a tough break, but I have
an awful lot to live for." Lou Gehrig, Hall of
Fame baseball player, who was stricken with the
disease ALS [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.16.06
"Gibson pitches as though he's
double-parked." Vin Scully, broadcaster, on
Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.15.06
"Games lubricate the body and the mind."
Benjamin Franklin, United States patriot,
founding father and inventor [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.14.06
"Cheating is as much a part of the game as
scorecards and hot dogs." Billy Martin,
professional baseball player and manager [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.13.06
"Nothing can be said of him that he didn't
say better of someone else." Sportswriter Red
Smith, commenting on legendary sportswriter
Grantland Rice [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.12.06
"You don't build character without somebody
slapping you around." Vince Lombardi, Hall of
Fame football coach [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.11.06
"He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."
Former University of Houston receiver Torrin
Polk on his coach, John Jenkins [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.10.06
"I copied my swing after (Shoeless) Joe
Jackson's. His is the perfectest." Hall of
Fame baseball player Babe Ruth [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.09.06
"Be reasonable: Do it my way." Sign on the
desk of John Calipari, college and professional
basketball coach [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.08.06
"I hate to lose. Hate, hate, hate to lose."
George Steinbrenner, owner, New York Yankees [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.07.06
"The
first time you quit, it's hard. The second time,
it gets easier. The third time, you don't even
have to think."
Paul "Bear" Bryant, Hall of Fame college
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Posted 10.06.06
"He talks OK up there with a bat in his hands. A
college education don't do you no good up
there." Casey Stengel, Hall of Fame baseball
manager, commenting on then-young catcher Yogi
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Posted 10.05.06
"My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if
I'm going to be an aunt or an uncle." Chuck
Nevitt, then an N.C. State basketball player,
explaining to his coach why he appeared nervous
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Posted 10.04.06
"The guy is not a real person, he's a
rattlesnake." Peter Vecsey, sportswriter,
about college and professional basketball coach Rick Pitino [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.03.06
"Emotion only stays with you a short period.
What you want is a sustained effort of
performance." John Chaney, college basketball
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Posted 10.02.06
"The player who loses his head, who can't keep his
cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all." Lou
Gehrig, Hall of Fame baseball player [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 10.01.06
"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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