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SportByte© Archives - April 2005


Posted 04.30.05 — "Gibson pitches as though he's double-parked." — Vin Scully, broadcaster, commenting on Hall of Fame pitcher and two-time Cy Young Award winner Bob Gibson — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 04.29.05 — "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 04.28.05 — "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 04.27.05 — "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 04.26.05 — "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 04.25.05 — "When you unwrap a Reggie Bar, it tells you how good it is." — Jim 'Catfish' Hunter, professional baseball player, alluding to Reggie Jackson, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 04.24.05 — "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 04.23.05 — "Being a professional athlete is just being a big kid." — Larry Csonka, Hall of Fame football player & broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 04.22.05 — "Just a fad – passing fancy." — Philip Wrigley, baseball team owner, on games played after dark under the lights — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 04.21.05 — "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 04.20.05 — "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 04.19.05 — "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 04.18.05 — "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 04.17.05 — "I like my boys agile, mobile, and hostile." — Alonzo 'Jake' Gaither, champion college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 04.16.05 — "I don't know. I'm not in shape yet." — Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame baseball player, when asked during spring training about his cap size — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 04.15.05 — "I got into this business because I got tired of beating up people for free." — Larry Holmes, champion boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 04.14.05 — "Playing in the U.S. Open is like tip-toeing through hell." — Jerry McGee, professional golfer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 04.13.05 — "Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree." — Joe Dugan, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 04.12.05 — "Winning tends to heal uneasiness and promote job security." — Selena Roberts, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 04.11.05 — "The more I practice, the luckier I get." — Gary Player, champion professional golfer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 04.10.05 — "There is no finish line." — Nike advertisement — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Posted 04.09.05 — "For the real fan, sports are life — and death." — Mike Littwin, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]


Note: New daily SportByte© quotes did not appear from 04.01.05 through 04.08.05 while the feature's editor was on vacation.


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