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THEY SAID IT
March 01, 1965
?Don Demeter, Detroit outfielder, receiving an award as Oklahoma's outstanding baseball player of 1964: "I would have to thank Mickey Mantle, who moved out of state, Allie Reynolds, who retired, and Warren Spahn, I guess, for just getting old."
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March 01, 1965

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? Don Demeter, Detroit outfielder, receiving an award as Oklahoma's outstanding baseball player of 1964: "I would have to thank Mickey Mantle, who moved out of state, Allie Reynolds, who retired, and Warren Spahn, I guess, for just getting old."

? Paul Drayton, Olympic sprint star who got leave from the Army to compete at Tokyo, on why he runs the short indoor races though they are not his specialty: "It keeps me off KP."

? Tex Winter, Kansas State basketball coach, addressing his squad after use of virtually all of them had failed to halt a losing streak: "Everybody show up for practice tomorrow afternoon—and bring a friend."

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