Posted 12.31.04 — "Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved." — Red Smith, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.30.04 — "I don't think we can win every game — just the next one." — Lou Holtz, champion college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.29.04 — "It was a lifetime of training for just 10 seconds." — Jesse Owens, Olympic gold medalist track and field competitor — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.28.04 — "This team has a chance of going all the way. So did the Titanic." — Jim Murray, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.27.04 — "A winner never whines." — Paul Brown, champion professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.26.04 — "I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying." — Michael Jordan, champion professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.25.04 — "Sport develops not character, but characters." — James A. Michener, Pulitzer Prize-winning author — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.24.04 — "The older I get, the better I used to be." — Connie Hawkins, professional basketball player and playground legend — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.23.04 — "Sports agents have become a virus in sports." — Mike Lupica, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.22.04 — "When a guy comes into the ring, he's fair game. You've got to take him out." — Goldberg, champion professional wrestler — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.21.04 — "I'm a good candidate for a knee replacement." — Steve Williams, a.k.a. Stone Cold Steve Austin, professional wrestler — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.20.04 — "A tie is like kissing your sister." — Paul "Bear" Bryant, Hall of Fame college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.19.04 — "This year we plan to run and shoot. Next year we hope to run and score." — Billy Tubbs, college basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.18.04 — "Every athlete is a role model, whether they want to be or not. You have to recognize that position." — Dale Earnhardt, champion race car driver — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.17.04 — "It doesn't matter how simple or fancy a pass is. The only good pass is one that is caught by its target." — Red Auerbach, Hall of Fame basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.16.04 — "I guarantee it." — Joe Namath, Hall of Fame football player, prior to his Jets' victory over the Colts in Super Bowl III — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.15.04 — "Keep your eye on the ball and hit them where they ain't." — Wee Willie Keeler, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.14.04 — "If your work is not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." — John Mazur, professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.13.04 — "Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux win." — Pat Conroy, writer, about statistics — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.12.04 — "A champion is one who gets up when he can't see." — Jack Dempsey, champion boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.11.04 — "Bob Knight was many things: brilliant, driven, compassionate — but not patient." — John Feinstein, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.10.04 — "Go up and write a column and a sidebar." — Woody Paige, sportswriter, to a woman who said she would do anything for $100 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.09.04 — "My dad was my biggest hero, but they haven't made a poster of him yet." — Derek Jeter, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.08.04 — "I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either." — Dave Barry, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.07.04 — "Whenever Rock opened his kisser, the throng became as silent as a tomb." — Harry Grayson, sportswriter, on Hall of Fame and champion football coach Knute Rockne — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.06.04 — "A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall." — Vince Lombardi, Hall of Fame football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.05.04 — "The foundation of getting people to do what you want them to do is built on a relationship based on trust. That is the critical element, the glue that holds everything together." — Marty Shottenheimer, professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.04.04 — "The only time I am really violent is on the football field. I'm going to catch him and knock his block off. It's as simple as that." — Alex Karras, Hall of Fame football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.03.04 — "A writer sick — good, I hope they gave the [expletive deleted] rat poison." — Lou Gehrig, Hall of Fame baseball player, upon being informed that a sportswriter was ill — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.02.04 — "You can only whip the mule so much before the mule turns around and says I've had it." — Kurt Rambis, professional basketball player and coach, on motivation — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 12.01.04 — "I told him, 'Don't buy the papers tomorrow. You're not going to like what you read.' " — Bill Parcells, professional football coach, about quarterback Phil Simms after a bad game — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

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