Posted 08.31.06 — "The hardest part of losing is knowing you have failed those who are depending on you." — Johnny Roach, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.30.06 — "All right, no limping. If you have to limp, don't scrimmage. If you want to scrimmage, don't limp." — Red Blaik, champion college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.29.06 — "They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets." — LaVell Edwards, college football coach and one of 14 children — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.28.06 — "When I read the sports pages these days I think I'm reading the Wall Street Journal." — Dan Jansen, Olympic gold medalist speed skater, referring to sports business dollars — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.27.06 — "Games lubricate the body and the mind." — Benjamin Franklin, United States patriot, founding father, inventor — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.26.06 — "You play the way you practice." — Pop Warner, Hall of Fame football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.25.06 — "There's nothing worse than a sorry, pitiful, whining teammate." — Charles Barkley, professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.24.06 — "I don't think we can win every game — just the next one." — Lou Holtz, football coach and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.23.06 — "Life really wouldn't be worth livin' if you didn't have a high school team to support." — Bob Rutherford, realtor and fan — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.22.06 — "No athletic director holds office longer than two unsuccessful football coaches." — Bob Zuppke, Illinois University football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.21.06 — "There is something about a new pair of sneakers that makes a boy feel he can run faster and jump higher." — Spike Lee, writer, actor, director and sports fan — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.20.06 — No new SportByte™ on this day while implementing site network changes.

Posted 08.19.06 — "Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently." — Cus D'Amato, boxing trainer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.18.06 — "Don't get sand kicked in your face." — Charles Atlas, also known as Angelo Siciliano, bodybuilder, from an advertisement for his bodybuilding regimens — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.17.06 — "Due to its ingredients ... courage, mental and physical condition, spirit, and its terrific body contact which tends to sort the men from the boys ... football remains one of the great games of all time." — Grantland Rice, sports writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.16.06 — "Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time." — Dr. Arnold Mandell, sports psychologist — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.15.06 — "You'll know, because you'll be looking out of your ear hole." — Ronnie Barnes, NFL trainer and East Carolina alumnus, to player David Meggett, referring to what is known in the league as 'an official NFL hit' — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.14.06 — "You travel around Texas with me, and everyone wants to talk about Nolan Ryan." — George W. Bush, U.S. president, Texas governor and Major League team owner, referring to the Hall of Fame pitcher — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.13.06 — "Sport is a right of the people." — Fidel Castro, communist dictator of Cuba — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.12.06 — "In this country, you either finish first or last, there is no second place." — Buddy Werner, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.11.06 — "When you step on that field, you cannot concede a thing." — Gale Sayers, Hall of Fame football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

No new SportBytes™ were posted Aug. 8 or Aug. 9 because of technical problems.

Posted 08.08.06 — "Ebbets Field was where one learned to duck a punch and get along with a lot of different people." — Tony LoBianco, actor — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.07.06 — "I hate to lose. Hate, hate, hate to lose." — George Steinbrenner, owner, New York Yankees — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.06.06 — "The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm and a weak mind." — Dizzy Dean, Hall of Fame baseball player and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.05.06 — "Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can win, you won't." — Jerry West, Hall of Fame basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.04.06 — "That boy in there has a lawyer with him and he doesn't need one." — Unidentified NBA executive, referring to negotiations with then-rookie Bill Bradley, a Rhodes Scholar and future U.S. senator — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.03.06 — "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." — Joe Theismann, professional football player and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.02.06 — "As a reflection of American life, the most popular sport in America is professional football: brutal, precise, competitive and highly standardized. In football, as in much of American society, the competitor is 'The Enemy,' and the all-consuming passion is to win, often, at any cost." — Dr. Ross Thomas Runfola, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.01.06 — "Being a professional athlete is just being a big kid." — Larry Csonka, Hall of Fame football player and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

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