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SPORTS QUOTES
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"I hit it so short now I can hear the ball land."
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"If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time."
--Gary Player, at his 52nd and last Masters in April
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"For four years they've been cheering for foul tips."
--Jacqui Sheftz, coach of fast pitch softball pitcher Rachele Fico, whose career record at Masuk High School in Monroe, Connecticut is 90-2 with an ERA of 0.006 that includes 43 no-hitters and 23 perfect games
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"Option 1: Two tickets to Tuesday night, June 30, Mariners at Yanks, cost for just the tickets, $5,000.
Option 2: Two round-trip airline tickets to Seattle, Friday, Aug. 14, return Sunday the 16th, rental car for three days, two-night double-occupancy stay in four-star hotel, two top tickets to both the Saturday and Sunday Yanks-Mariners games, two best-restaurant-in-town dinners for two. Total cost, $2,800. Plus frequent flyer miles."
--Gary Cicio, a New York podiatrist, on why it might be better to foot the bill for baseball in Seattle than New York
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"Less than four tickets to a Yankees game."
--Phil Mushnick, New York Post, putting the original $9,500 purchase price of Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird in perspective
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"Not that Detroit Red Wing Chris Chelios, 47, is getting a bit long in the tooth or anything but his playoff beard this year is a comb-over."
--Dwight Perry, Seattle Times
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"Manny Pacquiao has made money in more weight classes than Oprah."
--Mark Kriegel, FoxSports.com
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"There hasn't been anybody this tough at home since Macaulay Culkin."
--Gary Loewen, Toronto Sun, on the Cavaliers' terrific record at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland
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"Michael Phelps, just now getting back to serious training, lost nearly 20 pounds over the last two months. That's good because I thought Phelps looked really flabby in Beijing."
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"Allen Iverson denies reports that he's been banned from two Philadelphia casinos. But he hasn't denied reports that when he loses at blackjack, he throws cards and chips at the dealer or other players. His teammates are shocked. AI dishing off?"
--Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle
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