Posted 03.12.10 — "Good sportsmanship and reasonable standards of conduct are important." — Ted Turner, cable TV entrepreneur, baseball team owner and yachtsman — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.11.10 — "I think I'll take another bite of my coffee." — Frank Gifford, Hall of Fame football player and NFL broadcaster, while announcing the famous Ice Bowl game — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.10.10 — "Playing in the U.S. Open is like tip-toeing through hell." — Jerry McGee, professional golfer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.09.10 — "It relieves the manager of all responsibility except to post the lineup card on the dugout wall and make sure everybody gets to the airport on time." — Red Smith, sportswriter, on the designated hitter rule — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.08.10 — "If the on-deck batter is standing too close to home plate, you brush him back." — Brent Kemnitz, baseball coach, who was suspended for the rest of the season after one of his pitchers ended the career of an on-deck batter with a beanball — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.07.10 — "In ancient Rome, citizens befuddled by the complexities of the waning empire found in battles waged by the gladiators precisely the simplistic relief from the government problems of their day." — James Michener, author — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.06.10 — "How many guys we got in this league — 1,500? Well, that means there are 1,495 guys he can't lick." — Bill Parcells, football coach, referring to his kicker, who had told the media he wanted to get in some hits — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.05.10 — "Gentlemen, you are about to play football for Yale. Never again in your lives will you do anything so important." — Tad Jones, football coach (1909-27), addressing his team — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.04.10 — "You would have to take a stun gun or whatever and shoot him to get him off that court. He's going to leave it all out there." — Jeff Van Gundy, basketball coach, about Patrick Ewing, basketball player, who played a game with a torn Achilles tendon and led his team to a win — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.03.10 — "The reasons I was playing the game have always been the same. The game was all I cared about; it never felt like a job." — Dennis Rodman, basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.02.10 — "The most difficult aspect of dealing with sportswriters is their assumption of moral superiority. They insist on advising everyone." — Glenn Seaburg, Chancellor, University of Southern California — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.01.10 — "It's in the mindset of the players and managers to cheat whenever they get a chance. They believe it is the equivalent of their First Amendment right to cheat." — Durwood Merrill, baseball umpire — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

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