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July 2009
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Posted 07.31.09 "Listen,
if you start worrying about the people in the
stands, before too long you're up in the stands
with them." Tommy Lasorda, professional
baseball manager
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Posted 07.30.09 "I got
into this business because I got tired of
beating up people for free." Larry Holmes,
professional boxer
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Posted 07.29.09 "Every
great hitter works on the theory that the
pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the
pitcher." Ty Cobb, professional baseball
player
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Posted 07.28.09 "Football
is unique and good. Where else in life do you
see dedication and teamwork and spirit? People
enjoy it because it is reassuring to them to see
good things." Woody Hayes, college football
coach
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Posted 07.27.09 "Boxing
has been infested with corruption and
gangsterism since the day it began, yet it
engages our basis emotions like no other
athletic activity." Howard Cosell, broadcaster
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Posted 07.26.09 "In all
my years of watching football, I can honestly
say that I have never once confused football
with ballet." Joan Tisch, wife of NFL team
owner Bob Tisch
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Posted 07.25.09 "Professional
athletes should not be role models. Hell, I know
drug dealers who can dunk. Can drug dealers be
role models?" Charles Barkley, professional
basketball player
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Posted 07.24.09 "When
we win, I have no idea why we win. When we lose,
I have no idea why we lose. I'm totally
confused." George Karl, professional
basketball coach
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Posted 07.23.09 "It's
good for them. It embarrasses a little, but
relieves them a lot. Makes them part of the
group." Vince Lombardi, professional football
coach, talking about rookie hazing
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Posted 07.22.09 "If
someone ones to get an edge on me, they'll have
to search for the cracks themselves. They will
have to find that advantage themselves. I'm not
going to give it to them." Chuck Knox,
professional football coach
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Posted 07.21.09 "Some
kids dream of joining the circus, others of
becoming a major league baseball player. I have
been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York
Yankees, I have gotten to do both." Graig
Nettles, professional baseball player
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Posted 07.20.09 "The
difference between sports and ballet is that in
sports you root for somebody. Nobody yells at
one of the ballerinas, 'Break a bleepin' leg, ya
bum.' " Mike Littwin, sportswriter
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Posted 07.19.09 "Baseball
is so ingrained in Cuba that it has thrived as
the 'national sport' through 40 years of
bitterly anti-American revolution." Roberto
Gonzalez Echevarria, writer
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Posted 07.18.09 "There
are two things that made golf appealing to the
average man... Arnold Palmer and the invention
of the mulligan." Bob Hope, actor, comedian
and golfer
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Posted 07.17.09 "You're
blind! You're a crook! You're robbing me!"
Walter Matthau, actor, to the different umpires
and referees who appeared on as many as 15
televisions in his home during his gambling
binges
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Posted 07.16.09 "No
matter how long you have been playing, you still
get butterflies before the big ones." Pee Wee
Reese, professional baseball player
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Posted 07.15.09 "What
does it take to be a good referee? Beats the
hell out of me. No one thinks any referee is
good." Richie Powers, basketball official
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Posted 07.14.09 "Even
though I think I'm mature on the football field,
I'm still a kid. If there's a good play, I'll
jump up and down on the sidelines." Gary
Parris, professional football player
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Posted 07.13.09 "I have
got to make it here. I just can't go back to
Louisiana and Arkansas. I've been there and I
know what's there." Lou Brock, professional
baseball player, about making the major leagues
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Posted 07.12.09 "There
is only a half step difference between the
champions and those who finish on the bottom.
And much of that half step is mental." Tom
Landry, professional football coach
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Posted 07.11.09 "Probably
a professor of English." Jimmy Cannon,
sportswriter, after being told that fellow
sportswriter Gene Ward's house had been burned
down by an arsonist
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Posted 07.10.09 "Leadership
is a matter of having people look at you and
gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're
in control, they're in control." Tom Landry,
professional football coach
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Posted 07.09.09 "It's
in the mindset of players and managers to cheat
whenever they get a chance. They believe it is
the equivalent of their First Amendment right in
baseball to cheat." Durwood Merrill, umpire
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Posted 07.08.09 "Baseball
is an 1890 game. It's a peaceful afternoon in
the country. What baseball needs to compete is
more violence." Bill Veeck, professional
baseball team owner and racetrack operator
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Posted 07.07.09 "Sometimes
people ask, 'Are hockey fights for real?' And I
say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.'
" Wayne Gretzky, professional hockey player
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Posted 07.06.09 "Take
away the hot dog and all its attendant
comestibles, such as peanuts, popcorn, Cracker
Jacks and egg salad sandwiches, and you'd have a
different country." Wells Twombly,
sportswriter
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Posted 07.05.09 "The
first thing you learn is never to learn their
names until the last cut is made. 'Cause you
feel bad when they get cut." Eddie LeBaron,
professional football player, referring to
rookies in training camp
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Posted 07.04.09 "As a
traveling sportswriter, Death has been a
constant companion on the road. This can be
vexing, especially when Death gets the aisle
seat on airplanes." Steve Rushin, sportswriter
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Posted 07.03.09 "After
eight years in the NFL, I'm convinced that the
only thing that separates chumps from champions
is the individual's competitive drive." Joe
Montana, professional football player
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Posted 07.02.09 "We
didn't care if the team moved here from
Hartford, we don't care if they win or lose
while they're here, and we don't care when or
where they'll go if they pack up and leave."
Dennis Rogers, newspaper columnist, about the
NHL Hurricanes' move to Raleigh from Hartford
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Posted 07.01.09 "The
hardest thing about prize fighting is picking up
your teeth with a boxing glove on." Kin
Hubbard, humorist and author
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