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THEY SAID IT
December 02, 1963
?Doug Weaver, Kansas State football coach, after his team beat Iowa State, breaking a 26-game Big Eight losing streak: "We just joined the conference."
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December 02, 1963

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? Doug Weaver, Kansas State football coach, after his team beat Iowa State, breaking a 26-game Big Eight losing streak: "We just joined the conference."

? Sonny Liston, heavyweight champion, in a 30-second address before a Waterloo, Iowa, high school student body: "I keep my speeches like my fights, short."

? Charles Finley, Kansas City A's president, on trading baseball players, "If I had a general manager who said anybody was indispensable I'd fire him."

?Don Watchorn, University of Omaha assistant football coach, on organized midget football: "When football is forced down youngsters' throats by adults at such an early age, they become tired of it by the time they should be deriving the most benefits."

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