SportByte� Archives - February 2007
Posted 02.28.07 �
"Sports is the toy department of human life."
� Howard Cosell, broadcaster � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.27.07 �
"When the astronauts walked on the moon, I
figured we had a chance to win. Nothing seemed
impossible after that." � Tug McGraw, all-star
pitcher, describing the 'Miracle Mets' of 1969 � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.26.07 �
"My family is the most important thing to me. I
love basketball, but I need my family around
me." � Karl Malone, all-star professional
basketball player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.25.07 �
"You couldn't play on my Amazing Mets without
having held some kind of record, like one fella
held the world's international all-time record
for a pitcher getting hit on the ankles." �
Casey Stengel, Hall of Fame baseball manager � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.24.07 �
"In this country, when you finish second, no
one knows your name." � Frank McGuire, champion
basketball coach � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.23.07 �
"If you train hard, you'll not only be hard,
you'll be hard to beat." � Herschel Walker,
professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.22.07 �
"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is
calm." � Publius Syrus, writer, first century
B.C. � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.21.07 �
"When all is said and done, as a rule, more
is said than done." � Lou Holtz, college and
professional football coach � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.20.07 �
"When you're ten, eleven, and twelve, the
most important lesson you can have in sports is
to have fun." � Grant Hill, professional
basketball player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.19.07 �
"A guy strung out on cocaine cares about
setting an example for kids? He cares about
stuffing his nose with cocaine. Period." � Jim
Brown, Hall of Fame football player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.18.07 �
"A lot of parents think kids ought to learn
responsibility from work, and I've always said,
'Baloney.' Kids learn leadership and
organization from games, from having fun." �
John Madden, professional football coach and
broadcaster � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.17.07 �
"I don't need to be practicing, I'm leading
this tournament. You guys go on and practice,
because you're behind." � Lee Trevino, champion
golfer, to fellow competitors after a good first
round � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.16.07 �
"Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a
business, and too much of a business to be
called a sport." � Phillip K. Wrigley, baseball
team owner � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.15.07 �
"Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel,
verbose, a show off. I have been called all of
these. Of course, I am." � Howard Cosell,
broadcaster � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.14.07 �
"Willie Mays was my childhood hero, but not
because he was a great baseball player. Because
he had a big house." � O.J. Simpson, Hall of
Fame football player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.13.07 �
"I am a rich man. Just look at my arms. All of my
money is in my veins." � Earl Manigault, Harlem
playground basketball legend and ex-convict, on
his drug history � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.12.07 �
"When I began playing the game, baseball was
about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch." �
Ty Cobb, Hall of Fame baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.11.07 �
"I despise losing and would do anything to avoid
it." � Michael Jordan, professional basketball
player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.10.07 �
"That boy is too clumsy and too slow." � Branch
Rickey, baseball executive, on then-unknown
prospect Yogi Berra � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.09.07 �
"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,
baseball manager � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.08.07 �
"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron
is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a
rooster." � Curt Simmons, professional baseball
player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.07.07 �
"Things are never quite a good as they seem.
Things are never quite as bad as they seem. In
between falls reality." � John Calipari, college
and professional basketball coach � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.06.07 �
"I don't like money, but it quiets my
nerves." � Joe Lewis, champion boxer � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.05.07 �
"Sport is a right of the people." � Fidel
Castro, communist dictator of Cuba � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.04.07 �
"You wolves been howling for blood all year.
Maybe this'll shut you up." � John King,
professional baseball player, as he threw fifty
chunks of meat into the stands � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.03.07 �
"When I watch myself on film, sometimes I
don't even believe some of the things I do." �
Walter Payton, Hall of Fame football player � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.02.07 �
"Golf is the most fun you can have without
taking your clothes off." � Chi Chi Rodriguez,
champion professional golfer � [Get thousands of quotes
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Posted 02.01.07 �
"Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but
ain't no man got to be common." � Satchel Paige,
Hall of Fame baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes
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