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February 27, 1967
?Paul Hornung, asked why he got married at 11 a.m.: "Because if it didn't work out I didn't want to blow the whole day."
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February 27, 1967

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? Paul Hornung, asked why he got married at 11 a.m.: "Because if it didn't work out I didn't want to blow the whole day."

? Art Shamsky, a pinch hitter honored for four homers in one game: "I'd like to thank my manager—but that would be kind of senseless, he never played me."

? Floyd Patterson, before knocking out Willie Johnson: I don't know if I am as fast as I was, but I don't think I'm any slower."

?Steve Belko, Oregon basketball coach: "I told my team before the UCLA game that these guys put their pants on a leg at a time just like we do. It's just that one fellow has a little bit bigger pants."

?Theodore W. Kheel, New York lawyer and labor arbitrator, on his efforts to resolve the AAU- NCAA dispute: "These people make the Teamsters look like undernourished doves."

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