Bonesville Daily SportByte� � Memorable Quotes from Notable Sports Personalities

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Posted 09.30.08 � "Carrots may be good for my eyes, but they won't straighten out the curve ball." � Carl Furillo, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.29.08 � "When it comes to football, God is prejudiced � toward big, fast kids." � Chuck Mills, professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.28.08 � "I look at a golf course as a huge waste of pastureland." � Karl Malone, professional basketball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.27.08 � "All's I do is what I please and nobody stops me." � Gorgeous George, professional wrestler � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.26.08 � "Just a fad � passing fancy." � Philip Wrigley, professional baseball team owner, on playing games after dark under the lights � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.25.08 � "Being a professional athlete is just being a big kid." � Larry Csonka, professional football player and broadcaster � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.24.08 � "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, professional baseball manager � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.23.08 � "When you unwrap a Reggie Bar, it tells you how good it is." � Jim 'Catfish' Hunter, professional baseball player, about a candy bar associated with the name of Reggie Jackson, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.22.08 � "Sportsmanship should be the very mortar of an athlete but never an entity in itself for conscious display." � Grantland Rice, sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.21.08 � "Yes, it is forever about the money. Sports teaches you that eight days a week, making virtues of greed and lust, littering its fields with the currency of betrayal." � Ian O'Connor, sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.20.08 � "Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject." � Shelby Metcalf, college basketball coach, to a player who received four F's and one D � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.19.08 � "If a survey was taken, I think you'd find more injuries happen to a quarterback while standing in the pocket than by taking off with a ball." � Steve Grogan, professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.18.08 � "Gibson pitches as though he's double-parked." � Vin Scully, broadcaster, commenting on professional baseball pitcher Bob Gibson � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.17.08 � "Sports gives us the ability to test ourselves mentally, physically and emotionally in a way that no other aspect of life can." � Dan O'Brien, Olympic decathlon gold medalist � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.14.08 � "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." � Jacques Barzun, French-born American scholar and teacher � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.13.08 � "Baseball is pieces of minutiae that need belaboring." � Bill Scheft, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.12.08 � "Only boring people find baseball boring." � Peter Golenboch, sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.11.08 � "A winner never whines." � Paul Brown, professional football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.10.08 � "You're out, and you're ugly, too." � Durwood Merrill, umpire � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.09.08 � "Cut me and I'll bleed Dodger blue." � Tom Lasorda, baseball manager � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.08.08 � "You gotta believe." � Tug McGraw, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.07.08 � "Grip it, and rip it!" � John Daly, professional golfer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.06.08 � "Keep your eye on the ball and hit them where they ain't." � Wee Willie Keeler, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.05.08 � "Stand your ground and take your lumps." � Yogi Berra, professional baseball player and manager � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.04.08 � "In order to run an efficient organization, there has to be a dictator." � Al Advise, professional football team owner � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.03.08 � "Have you ever seen a Fellini movie? My life is like a Fellini movie." � George Karl, professional basketball coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.02.08 � "Nobody ever goes there anymore � it's too crowded." � Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame baseball player, about a local night club � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.01.08 � "This game was invented for Willie Mays a hundred years ago." � Ray Sedecki, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]