SportByte Archives - August 2007
Posted 08.31.07
"Baseball's 90 percent mental. The other half
is physical." Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame
baseball player
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Posted 08.30.07
"For the real fan, sports are life and
death." Mike Littwin, sportswriter
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Posted 08.29.07
"I was raised, but I never did grow up."
Pete Rose, professional baseball player
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Posted 08.28.07
"All's I do is what I please and nobody stops
me." Gorgeous George, professional wrestler
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Posted 08.27.07
"When I can't play tennis anymore, I'll die."
Bill Tilden, champion tennis player, who
played the day before he died
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Posted 08.26.07
"In football and in business, preparation
precedes performance." Bill Walsh, champion
football coach
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Posted 08.25.07
"Whenever Rock opened his kisser, the throng
became as silent as a tomb." Harry Grayson,
sportswriter, on champion college football coach
Knute Rockne
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Posted 08.24.07
"Sports agents have become a virus in
sports." Mike Lupica, sportswriter
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Posted 08.23.07
"Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment."
Heywood Hale Broun, sportswriter
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Posted 08.22.07
"A winner never whines." Paul Brown,
professional football coach
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Posted 08.21.07
"I never want to score. Never. I want to
rebound." Dennis Rodman, professional
basketball player
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Posted 08.20.07
"The older I get, the better I used to be."
Connie Hawkins, professional basketball player
and playground legend
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Posted 08.19.07
"(Larry) Bird was one of the few white guys
who could play what people call the 'Black
Game.' " Dennis Rodman, professional
basketball player
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Posted 08.18.07
"Age is like a bulldozer. It's going to push
you out of the way once you stop moving."
Archie Moore, champion boxer
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Posted 08.17.07
"There have only been two geniuses in the
world. Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare."
Tallulah Bankhead, actress
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Posted 08.16.07
"I don't know. I'm not in shape yet." Yogi
Berri, Hall of Fame baseball player, when asked
during spring training his cap size
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Posted 08.15.07
"We avoided guys who could play the piano."
Paul Brown, NFL coach and team owner, on draft
selections
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Posted 08.14.07
"This guy is not a real person, he's a
rattlesnake." Peter Vecsey, sportswriter, on
Rick Pitino, college and professional basketball
coach
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Posted 08.13.07
"I come to play. I come to beat you. I come
to kill you." Leo Durocher, professional
baseball player and manager
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Posted 08.12.07
"Sports develops not character, but
characters." James A. Michener, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author
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Posted 08.11.07
"He will cut your heart out to win." Matt
Goukas, professional basketball coach, on Larry
Byrd, professional basketball player
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Posted 08.10.07
"It ain't what it was, but then what the hell
is?" Dizzy Dean, Hall of Fame baseball player,
about his arm and aging
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Posted 08.09.07
"Don't try to perform beyond your abilities
but never perform below them." Frank Robinson,
professional baseball player and manager
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Posted 08.08.07
"You have to expect things of yourself before
you can do them." Michael Jordan, champion
professional basketball player
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Posted 08.07.07
"I watched the first Ali-Frazier fight in
prison. And I promoted the third one." Don
King, boxing promoter
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Posted 08.06.07
"No excuse in the world counts for squat."
Mark Schubert, U.S. Olympic swimming coach
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Posted 08.05.07
"You build a successful life a day at a
time." Lou Holtz, champion football coach
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Posted 08.04.07
"The only players I hurt with my words are
ones with inflated opinions of their ability."
Bill Parcells, champion football coach
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Posted 08.03.07
"Control the elements, control what's inside
of you." John Chaney, college basketball coach
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Posted 08.02.07
"I've seen him make chicken salad out of
chicken feathers many times." John Brockington,
professional football player, about Walter
Payton
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Posted 08.01.07
"I like my boys agile, mobile, and hostile."
Alonzo Jake Gaither, college football coach
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