Posted 05.31.07 — "Football is the closest thing we have to the Christians and the lions." — Dan Jenkins, author — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.30.07 — "Looks black, lives white, and thinks green." — Larry Holmes, world champion boxer, referring to Don King, promoter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.29.07 — "They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets." — LaVell Edwards, college football coach and one of 14 children — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.28.07 — "When you unwrap a Reggie Bar, it tells you how good it is." — Jim 'Catfish' Hunter, Hall of Fame baseball player, on Reggie Jackson, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.27.07 — "Act quickly, but never in a hurry." — John Wooden, champion college basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.26.07 — "A truly great player makes the worst player on the team good." — Oscar Robertson, Hall of Fame basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.25.07 — "If you want to be a great hitter, don't go to the movies. It ruins your eyes." — Rogers Hornsby, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.24.07 — "Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude." — Bart Starr, Hall of Fame football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.23.07 — "I'm not mean, just aggressive." — Harvey Martin, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.22.07 — "Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little." — George Allen, professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.21.07 — "I'm not much of a golfer. I don't have any friends. And, all I like to do the day of a game is go home and be alone and worry about ways not to lose." — Paul 'Bear' Bryant, champion college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.20.07 — "With the Red Sox, the past is always the present. If it's not Babe Ruth's departure, it's Bucky Dent's home run." — Dave Anderson, columnist — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.19.07 — "Winning is like shaving. You do it every day, or you end up looking like a bum." — Jack Kemp, professional football player, U.S. congressman — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.18.07 — "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 05.17.07 — "The [New York] Yankees are only interested in one thing, and I don't know what it is." — Luis Polonia, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.16.07 — "A boy who doesn't like contact shouldn't play football, because he isn't going to change." — Red Blaik, champion college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.15.07 — "Just a fad – passing fancy." — Philip Wrigley, baseball team owner, on games played after dark under the lights — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.14.07 — "If they took away our sticks and gave us brooms, we'd still fight." — Phil Esposito, professional hockey player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.13.07 — "Which game do I like better? I like baseball better in the spring. I like football better in the fall." — Bo Jackson, professional baseball and football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.12.07 — "You're out, and you're ugly, too." — Durwood Merrill, umpire — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.11.07 — "We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." — Jason Kidd, professional basketball player, upon learning he had been drafted by the Dallas Mavericks — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.10.07 — "He was sometimes unbearable, but he was never dull." — Ed Linn, sportswriter, on Hall of Fame baseball player Ted Williams — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.09.07 — "I broke into Hollywood the old-fashioned way: I knew somebody." — Jim Brown, Hall of Fame football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.08.07 — "Things are never quite as good as they seem. Things are never quite as bad as they seem. In between falls reality." — John Calipari, college and professional basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.07.07 — "The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all." — Lou Gehrig, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.06.07 — "Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but ain't no man got to be common." — Satchel Paige, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.05.07 — "He went from warm to red hot. You could hear him laughing or shouting for five blocks." — Wellington Mara, Hall of Fame NFL team owner, on Hall of Fame coach Vince Lombardi — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.04.07 — "I don't think we can win every game – just the next one." — Lou Holtz, champion football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.03.07 — "You can only whip the mule so much before the mule turns around and says I've had it." — Kurt Rambis, NBA player and coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.02.07 — "The residents of other cities who hate the Yankees really only hate New York." — Leonard Koppett, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.01.07 — "All right, no limping. If you have to limp, don't scrimmage. If you want to scrimmage, don't limp." — Red Blaik, champion college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

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