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SportByte™ Archives - January 2008

 

 

 

 

 
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Posted 01.31.08 — "I like to throw the ball. To me, the pro game is throwing. I may be wrong, but putting the ball in the air is the way to win." — Y.A. Tittle, professional quarterback — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.30.08 — "When you come right down to it, the baseball owners are really little boys with big wallets." — Harold Parrott, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.29.08 — "Baby, no one sends in plays for Francis." — Fran Tarkenton, professional quarterback, when asked who called his team's plays — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.28.08 — "It's not the fact that men love football that makes modern woman want to scream ... It's the assumption that she is incapable of loving it, too." — Sally Jenkins, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.27.08 — "Talent is God-given, be humble; fame is man-given, be thankful; conceit is self-given, be careful." — Anonymous (quoted often by college basketball coach John Wooden) — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.26.08 — "Half the time the scouts have their heads down making notes and don't even see which way the ball is hit." — Tom Greenwade, professional baseball scout — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.25.08 — "Statistics always remind me of the fellow who drowned in a river whose average depth was only three feet." — Woody Hayes, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.24.08 — "He talks OK up there with a bat in his hands. A college education don't do you no good up there." — Casey Stengel, professional baseball manager, on professional baseball player Yogi Berra — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.23.08 — "We avoided guys who could play the piano." — Paul Brown, professional football coach and team owner, on making NFL draft selections — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.22.08 — "Everything in a game happens by chance, so what you're doing is trying to make your own breaks." — Nate Allen, professional football player, on luck — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.21.08 — "Games lubricate the body and the mind." — Benjamin Franklin, United States patriot, Founding Father and inventor — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.20.08 — "Good to meet you. A writer, huh? What paper you with Ernie?" — Yogi Berra, professional baseball player, upon being introduced to Ernest Hemingway — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.19.08 — "Football is the quintessential American sport: lots of violence punctuated by committee meetings." — George Will, political analyst and baseball aficionado — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.18.08 — "A boy who doesn't like contact shouldn't play football, because he isn't going to change." — Red Blaik, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.17.08 — "He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings." — Torrin Polk, college football player, on his coach, John Jenkins — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.16.08 — "My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an aunt or an uncle." — Chuck Nevitt, college basketball player, explaining to his coach why he appeared nervous at practice — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.15.08 — "The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." — Roger Bannister, first athlete to run the mile in under four minutes — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.14.08 — "I don't understand what kind of #### radio that can be if you can't get a score of a ball game on it." — Harry Caray, broadcaster, to a taxi driver who only had a dispatch radio in his cab — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.13.08 — "If the on-deck batter is standing too close to home plate, you brush him back." — Brent Kemnitz, college baseball coach suspended after one of his pitchers ended the career of an on-deck batter by beaning him — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.12.08 — "Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room checked first for a gun. You couldn't take chances with some of those birds." — Casey Stengel, professional baseball manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.11.08 — "When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch." — Ty Cobb, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.10.08 — "Mexican baseball is exactly like American baseball, except for the extraneous embellishments. They work the hit and run and turn the double-play ball, but they don't sell the hot dog." — Peter Golenboch, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.09.08 — "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." — Jim Bouton, professional baseball player and writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.08.08 — "Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel. Not just to be as good as everyone else, but to be better. This is the nature of man, and this is the name of the game." — Ted Williams, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.07.08 — "Baseball is a worrying thing." — Stan Coveleshi, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.06.08 — "The Yankees are baseball." — Joe Torre, professional baseball player and manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.05.08 — "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." — Jacques Barzun, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.04.08 — "I see great things in baseball. It is our game. The American game. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us." — Walt Whitman, poet — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.03.08 — "Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved." — Red Smith, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.02.08 — "Baseball is pieces of minutiae that need belaboring." — Bill Sheft, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 01.01.08 — "Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers." — Merle Kessler, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


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