SportByte� Archives - July 2007
Posted 07.31.07 �
"Age is like a bulldozer. It's gonna push you
out of the way once you stop moving." � Archie
Moore, champion boxer �
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Posted 07.30.07 �
"You don't build character without somebody
slapping you around." � Vince Lombardi, champion
football coach �
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Posted 07.29.07 �
"Front office brilliance in baseball is rarer
than a triple play." � Roger Angell, writer �
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Posted 07.28.07 �
"I look at a golf course as a huge waste of
pastureland." � Karl Malone, professional
basketball player �
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Posted 07.27.07 �
"One man practicing sportsmanship is better
than a hundred teaching it." � Knute Rockne,
champion college football coach �
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Posted 07.26.07 �
"In this country, when you finish second, no
one knows your name." � Frank McGuire, college
and professional basketball coach �
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Posted 07.25.07 �
"The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest
if somebody put a flagstick on top." � Pete Dye,
golf course designer �
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Posted 07.24.07 �
"This year we hope to run and shoot. Next
year we hope to run and score." � Billy Tubbs,
college basketball coach �
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Posted 07.23.07 �
"The bull is stronger but the matador is
smarter." � Muhammad Ali, world champion boxer �
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Posted 07.22.07 �
"Fatigue makes cowards of us all." � Vince
Lombardi, Hall of Fame football coach �
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Posted 07.21.07 �
"You play the way you practice." � Pop
Warner, Hall of Fame football coach �
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Posted 07.20.07 �
"A champion is one who gets up when he can't
see." � Jack Dempsey, champion boxer �
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Posted 07.19.07 �
"Defeat creates orphaned thoughts." �
Madeleine Blais, writer �
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Posted 07.18.07 �
"Be quick, but never hurry." � John Wooden,
champion college basketball coach �
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Posted 07.17.07 �
"Any American boy can be a basketball star if
he grows up, up, up." � Bill Vaughn, writer �
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Posted 07.16.07 �
"When a guy comes into the ring, he's fair
game. You've got to take him out." � Goldberg,
champion professional wrestler �
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Posted 07.15.07 �
"The joker got funny and said he found urine
in my whiskey. I fired him." � Ty Cobb, Hall of
Fame baseball player, about his doctor �
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Posted 07.14.07 �
"College is the fountain of life. You have to
drink from it." � John Chaney, college
basketball coach �
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Posted 07.13.07 �
"I'm not allowed to comment on lousy
officiating." � Jim Finks, NFL team executive �
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Posted 07.12.07 �
"If the man tells you there's cheese on the
mountain, then you best bring crackers." � Keith
Byars, professional football player, on coach
Bill Parcells �
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Posted 07.11.07 �
"Don't let anyone outwork you." � Attributed
to his father by professional baseball player
Derek Jeter �
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Posted 07.10.07 �
"You always have to focus in life on what you
want to achieve." � Michael Jordan, professional
basketball player �
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Posted 07.09.07 �
"My college playbook was like a Dr. Seuss
book. With the 49ers, it's like a cookbook." �
Terrell Owens, professional football player �
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Posted 07.08.07 �
"My toughest fight was with my first wife." �
Muhammad Ali, champion boxer �
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Posted 07.07.07 �
"The gods do not deduct from man's allotted
span the hours spent in fishing." � Babylonian
proverb �
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Posted 07.06.07 �
"I'm not mean, just aggressive." � Harvey
Martin, professional football player �
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Posted 07.05.07 �
"I have the greatest job in the world." �
Derek Jeter, professional baseball player �
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Posted 07.04.07 �
"Lifting a barbell ain't like eating no
watermelon." � Toad, U.S. Olympic weightlifter �
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Posted 07.03.07 �
"Only boring people find baseball boring." �
Peter Golenbach, sportswriter �
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Posted 07.02.07 �
"Every hole should be a demanding par and a
comfortable bogey." � Robert Trent Jones, Jr.,
golf course architect �
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Posted 07.01.07 �
"The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a
strong body, a good right arm and a weak mind."
� Dizzy Dean, Hall of Fame baseball player and
broadcaster �
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Posted 06.30.07 �
"The minute you start talking about what
you're going to do if you lose, you've lost." �
George Schultz, U.S. Secretary of State �
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Posted 06.29.07 �
"I'd rather get Gatorade poured on me than
bust my butt selling it." � Bill Parcells, NFL
coach, on endorsements �
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Posted 06.28.07 �
"Listen, I'm a leader. If anyone gives me
trouble in a huddle � I don't care who they are
� I'm going to sting them." � Terry Bradshaw,
Hall of Fame football player �
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Posted 06.27.07 �
"When it comes to football, God is prejudiced
� toward big, fast kids." � Chuck Mills,
professional football player �
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Posted 06.26.07 �
"It would be a real misfortune to lose so
manly and vigorous a game as football." �
Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. president �
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Posted 06.25.07 �
"Monday Night Football." � Camille Paglia,
writer and feminist, when asked to name her
favorite television show �
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Posted 06.24.07 �
"Football is the quintessential American
sport: lots of violence punctuated by committee
meetings." � George Will, political analyst and
baseball aficionado �
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Posted 06.23.07 �
"Everybody loves a gambler, until he loses."
� Vince Lombardi, Hall of Fame football coach �
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Posted 06.22.07 �
"We wuz robbed � we should have stood in
bed." � Joe Jacobs, trainer, after his fighter,
Max Schmeling, lost to Jack Sharkey �
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Posted 06.21.07 �
"What's bigger than butterflies? A buzzard? I
had a buzzard in my stomach." � Allen Iverson,
professional basketball player �
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Posted 06.20.07 �
"I do believe that my best hits border on
felonious assault." � Jack Tatum, professional
football player �
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Posted 06.19.07 �
"On this team we are all united in a common
goal: to keep my job." � Lou Holtz, champion
college football coach �
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Posted 06.18.07 �
"Nice guys finish last." � Leo Durocher,
professional baseball player and manager �
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Posted 06.17.07 �
"When you win, nothing hurts." � Joe Namath,
professional football player, regarding pain �
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Posted 06.16.07 �
"The secret is watching the center and going
with the snap." � Nate Allen, professional
football player, on blocking punts and field
goals �
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Posted 06.15.07 �
"Luck means a lot in football. Not having a
quarterback is bad luck." � Don Shula, Hall of
Fame football coach �
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Posted 06.14.07 �
"He was a credit to his race
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the human race." � Jimmy Cannon, sportswriter,
on champion boxer Joe Louis �
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Posted 06.13.07 �
"I got into this business because I got tired
of beating up people for free." � Larry Holmes,
champion boxer �
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Posted 06.12.07 �
"I miss football so much � heck, I even miss
the interceptions." � Archie Manning,
broadcaster and former professional football
player �
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Posted 06.11.07 �
"Keep your head up; act like a champion." �
Paul "Bear" Bryant, Hall of Fame college
football coach �
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Posted 06.10.07 �
"Adversity teaches a man about himself." �
Alonzo Mourning, All-Star professional
basketball player �
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Posted 06.09.07 �
"Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona
Lisa." � George Steinbrenner, owner of the New
York Yankees �
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Posted 06.08.07 �
"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody
wants to die." � Joe Louis, champion
professional boxer �
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Posted 06.07.07 �
"Luck is the residue of design." � Branch
Rickey, Hall of Fame baseball executive �
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Posted 06.06.07 �
"Cut me and I'll bleed Dodger blue." � Tommy
Lasorda, baseball manager �
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Posted 06.05.07 �
"Some ballyard!" � Babe Ruth, Hall of Fame
baseball player, about Yankee Stadium �
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Posted 06.04.07 �
"I ain't ever liked violence." � Sugar Ray
Robinson, champion boxer �
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Posted 06.03.07 �
"He who is not courageous enough to take
risks will accomplish nothing in life." �
Muhammad Ali, champion boxer �
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Posted 06.02.07 �
"Losing is the great American sin." � Jerome
Holtzman, writer �
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Posted 06.01.07 �
"Freshmen get nothing but abuse... but plenty
of that." � Knute Rockne, Hall of Fame college
football coach �
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