SportByte� Archives - December 2006
Posted 12.31.06 �
"He'd knock you down just for having bad
breath." � Joe Garagiola, professional baseball
player and broadcaster, on Hall of Fame pitcher
Bob Gibson � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.30.06 �
"If you want to be a great hitter, don't go
to the movies. It ruins your eyes." � Rogers
Hornsby, Hall of Fame baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.29.06 �
"I look at a golf course as a huge waste of
pastureland." � Karl Malone, professional
basketball player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.28.06 �
"Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell
from a tree." � Joe Dugan, professional baseball
player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.27.06 �
"I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how
long it takes." � Unnamed senior basketball
player, University of Pittsburgh � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.26.06 �
"When you're as great as I am, it's hard to
be humble." � Muhammad Ali, champion boxer � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.25.06 �
"I have the job I want. I am not looking for
a job. What I'm looking for is a tall player
that can play." � Mike Jarvis, college
basketball coach � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.24.06 �
"Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There
are no winners, only survivors." � Frank
Gifford, professional football player,
broadcaster � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.23.06 �
"A perfect pitcher is an impossible concept,
as long as major league hitters remain capable
of hitting perfect pitches." � Bob Gibson, Hall
of Fame pitcher � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.22.06 �
"Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can
walk, you can run." � Vince Lombardi, Hall of
Fame football coach � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.21.06 �
"If one's reputation is a possession, then of
all of my possessions, my reputation means the
most to me." � Arthur Ashe, tennis icon, in
Days of Grace � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.20.06 �
"Once my swing starts, I can't change or pull
up. It's all or nothing." � Babe Ruth, Hall of
Fame baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.19.06 �
"I've been called a racist, a drunk and a quitter.
Other than that, I'm fine." � Kerry Collins,
professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.18.06 �
"College football is an ugly business." � Mike
Tomco, college football player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.17.06 �
"A quarterback doesn't come into his own
until he can tell the coach to go to hell." �
Johnny Unitas, Hall of Fame football player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.16.06 �
"What does it take to be a good referee? Beats the
hell out of me. No one thinks any referee is
good." � Richie Powers, basketball official � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.15.06 �
"Nobody in football should be called a
genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
� Joe Theisman, broadcaster and former football
player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.14.06 �
"I could sell drugs for a living because I'm
a hustler. But why sell drugs and go to prison
when I can sell tickets." � Cleveland Chris,
scalper � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.13.06 �
"Every time you win, you're reborn; when you
lose, you die a little." � George Allen, Hall of
Fame football coach � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.12.06 �
"Yes, it is forever about the money. Sports
teaches you that eight days a week, making
virtues of greed and lust, littering its fields
with the currency of betrayal." � Ian O'Connor,
sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.11.06 �
"When I read the sports pages these days, I
think I'm reading the Wall Street Journal." �
Dan Jansen, Olympic gold medalist speed skater,
referring to sports business dollars � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.10.06 �
"If I could make more money running a supermarket,
I'd run a supermarket. My best thing is driving
cars... It's a business, like any other
business." � Richard Perry, racing legend � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.09.06 �
"I was a very late draft choice of the Mittendorf
Funeral Home Panthers. Our color was black." �
George Will, author and baseball enthusiast,
about his Little League draft � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.08.06 �
"Bob Knight is unique. In another time, he
would have been a superb general. ... He may
well be the last of the coaching dictators." �
Al McGuire, Hall of Fame basketball coach and
broadcaster, on his fellow Hall of Famer � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.07.06 �
"Mickey Mantle just was everything. At my bar
mitzvah I had an Oklahoma accent. And I think I
once told my parents, 'Play me or trade me.' " �
Billy Crystal, actor, comedian and baseball fan � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.06.06 �
"I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it
ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't
know and I don't care.' " � Frank Layden, NBA
executive and former coach � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.05.06 �
"Jimmy Taylor, the great fullback of the Green Bay
Packers, spent four years in college and emerged
unscarred by education." � Dick Schaap,
sportswriter, author, broadcaster � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.04.06 �
"Mickey was like Marilyn Monroe. He didn't
have to be the greatest ballplayer. He had that
charisma." � Hank Aaron, Hall of Fame baseball
player, about fellow Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.03.06 �
"Observing team sports, teams of adult men, one
sees how men are children in the most felicitous
sense of the word." � Joyce Carol Oates, writer � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 12.02.06 �
"That (home run) ball got out of here in a
hurry. Anything going that fast better have a
damn stewardess on it � don't you think?" �
Kevin Costner, actor, in the movie Bull
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Posted 12.01.06 �
"First time I ever slept on my back. Had to,
or that medal would have cut my chest." �
Muhammad Ali, world champion boxer, on winning a
gold medal in the Olympics � [Get thousands of quotes
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