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Posted 04.30.10 — "If you make plays and the team wins, the fans will be fine. I don't worry about the fans." — Donavan McNabb, football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.29.10 — "Whether in sports or politics, competition in and of itself is good." — Bill Bradley, basketball player, U.S. Senator — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.28.10 — "There's a foot difference between a halo and a noose." — Bobby Bowden, football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.27.10 — "You've taken my team away from me." — Tom Landry, football coach, on the day he was fired — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.26.10 — "Fishing is a jerk at one end of the line waiting for a jerk at the other end." — Mark Twain, humorist and author — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.25.10 — "Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become." — Mary McGrory, journalist — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.24.10 — "Lifting a barbell ain't like eating no watermelon." — Toad, U.S. Olympic weightlifter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.23.10 — "The ball sailed so high that when it came down it was coated with ice." — Bill McGeehan, sportswriter, on one of Babe Ruth's home runs — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.22.10 — "He wants Texas back." — Tommy Lasorda, Dodgers manager, on negotiations with Mexican-born pitcher Fernando Valenzuela — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.21.10 — "Golf is a good walk spoiled." — Mark Twain, humorist and author — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.20.10 — "He's probably never been to Minnesota." — Willie Mosconi, pool player, on hustler 'Minnesota Fats' — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.19.10 — "I'm sick of people talking about money, money, money all the time." — Shaquille O'Neal, basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.18.10 — "If (broadcaster) Howard Cosell was a sport, it would be Roller Derby." — Jimmy Cannon, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.17.10 — "I made some mistakes – my immaturity is the one thing that sticks out – but I've learned a lot. Sometimes that takes time." — Kerry Collins, football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.16.10 — "A reporter asked me once if I'd ever seen (Dallas Cowboys coach) Tom Landry laugh. 'No,' I answered, 'I only played nine years.' " — Jerry Glanville, football player and coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.15.10 — "There is no room in baseball for a clown." — Chuck Dressen, baseball manager, to Bob Uecker, baseball player and, later, broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.14.10 — "Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but ain't no man got to be common." — Satchel Paige, baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.13.10 — "Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off." — Chi Chi Rodriguez, golfer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.12.10 — "Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster." — Curt Simmons, baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

No new SportBytes™ were posted from April 5, 2010, through April 11, 2010, while some staff members were taking spring break.

Posted 04.04.10 — "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, baseball manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.03.10 — "That boy is too clumsy and too slow." — Branch Rickey, baseball executive, on then-unknown prospect Yogi Berra — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.02.10 — "When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch." — Ty Cobb, baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.01.10 — "I am a rich man. Just look at my arms. All of my money is in my veins." — Earl Manigault, Harlem playground basketball legend and ex-convict, on his drug history — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

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