Bonesville Daily SportByte� � Memorable Quotes from Notable Sports Personalities

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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 01.06.08 � "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...]