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Archives - March 2004
Posted 03.31.04
"Sportsmanship should be the very mortar of an
athlete but never an entity in itself for
conscious display." Grantland Rice,
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Posted 03.30.04
"Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get
rid of your aggressions without going to jail
for it." Heywood Hale Broun, writer [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.29.04
"We don't take underclassmen." Red Auerbach,
champion professional basketball coach and
executive, on why the Boston Celtics passed on
Julius Erving [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.28.04
"Statistics always remind me of the fellow who
drowned in a river whose average depth was only
three feet." Woody Hayes, Hall of Fame college
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Posted 03.27.04
"Nothing can be said of him that he didn't
say better of someone else." Red Smith,
sportswriter, on legendary sportswriter
Grantland Rice [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.26.04
"If you're going to be a champion, you must be
willing to pay a greater price than your
opponent." Bud Wilkinson, Hall of Fame
college football coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.25.04
"The joker got funny and said he found urine
in my whiskey. I fired him." Ty Cobb, Hall of
Fame baseball player, commenting on his doctor [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.24.04
"There is no finish line." Nike advertisement [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.23.04
"Baseball is a worrying thing." Stan
Coveleshi, writer [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.22.04
"I've been called a racist, a drunk and a quitter.
Other than that, I'm fine." Kerry Collins,
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Posted 03.21.04
"If you really want to enjoy the game and
understand it, you've got to score it." Warner
Fuselle, broadcaster, on baseball score cards [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.20.04
"I find that prayers work best when you have
big players." Knute Rockne, Hall of Fame
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Posted 03.17.04
"I'm not Joe DiMaggio anymore." Joe
DiMaggio, Hall of Fame baseball player, on his
retirement [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.16.04
"I don't know anyone else who putts with a
swizzle stick." Bob Hope, referring to fellow
actor and comedian Jackie Gleason [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.15.04
"My dad was my biggest hero, but they haven't made
a poster of him yet." Derek Jeter,
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Posted 03.14.04
"Western supremacy in football is a triumph
of the middle-class over the rich." Knute
Rockne, Hall of Fame football coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.13.04
"If I had my life to live over again, I'd
have ended up a sportswriter." Richard M.
Nixon, president of the United States [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.12.04
"This year we plan to run and shoot. Next
year we hope to run and score." Billy Tubbs,
college basketball coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.11.04
"Cinderella never worked this hard." Rick
Pitino, basketball coach, remarking on how it
felt to be a "Cinderella" team [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.10.04
"In football and in business, preparation
precedes performance." Bill Walsh, champion
professional football coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.09.04
"I don't think it's possible to be too intent
on winning." Woody Hayes, champion college
football coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.08.04
"Having a long NFL career is an
accomplishment in itself." Joe Montana, Hall
of Fame professional football player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.07.04
"All great fishermen go to bed early." Ted
Williams, Hall of Fame baseball player and
world-class fisherman [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.06.04
"In the postseason, teams play for 40
minutes." Tyrone Grant, college basketball
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Posted 03.05.04
"Life really wouldn't be worth living if you
didn't have a high school team to support."
Bob Rutherford, realtor and fan [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.04.04
"This team has a chance of going all the way. So
did the Titanic." Jim Murray, sportswriter [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.03.04
"Thrust against pain, pain is the purifier."
Percy Cerutty, Australian Olympic coach [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.02.04
"You've gotta have a lot of little boy in you to
play this game." Roy Campanella, All-Star
professional baseball player [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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Posted 03.01.04
"Every hole should be a demanding par and a
comfortable bogey." Robert Trent Jones, Jr.,
golf course architect [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo
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