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Posted 01.31.11 — "The most beautiful thing in the world is a ball park filled with people." — Bill Veeck, baseball team owner and racetrack operator — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.30.11 — "Stand your ground and take your lumps." — Yogi Berra, baseball player and manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.29.11 — "The only reason I played golf was so I could afford to hunt and fish." — Sam Snead, professional golfer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.28.11 — "Most slumps are like the common cold. They last two weeks no matter what you do." — Terry Kennedy, baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.27.11 — "I have never taken any exercise ... and never intend to take any." — Mark Twain, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.26.11 — "It matters not who wins or loses, but how you cover your points." — Steve Cady, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.25.11 — "You've got to be a son of a ##### to play this game right." — Carl Brettschnieder, football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.24.11 — "Hit the ball carrier harder than he hits you." — Ray Nitschke, football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.23.11 — "I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it." — Gale Sayers, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.22.11 — "Could I be a coach and lose? To me, that's like asking if a guy can be a good doctor even though his patients keep dying." — Red Auerbach, basketball coach and team executive — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.21.11 — "Let's be honest. The proper definition of an amateur today is one who accepts cash, not checks." — Jack Kelly, Jr., sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.20.11 — "I want to be remembered for making rich people richer." — Hughes Norton, sports agent — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.19.11 — "Teamwork is the essence of life." — Pat Riley, basketball player and coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.18.11 — "I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying." — Michael Jordan, basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.17.11 — "A tie is like kissing your sister." — Paul 'Bear' Bryant, football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.16.11 — "I'm a good candidate for a knee replacement." — Steve Williams, a.k.a. Stone Cold Steve Austin, wrestler — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.15.11 — "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, basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.14.11 — "I guarantee it." — Joe Namath, football player, prior to his New York Jets' victory over the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.13.11 — "If your work is not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm." — John Mazur, football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.12.11 — "Keep your eye on the ball and hit them where they ain't." — Wee Willie Keeler, baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.11.11 — "Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine." — Pat Conroy, writer, on statistics — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.10.11 — "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 01.09.11 — "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 01.08.11 — "The foundation of getting people to do what you want them to do is built on a relationship based on trust." — Marty Shottenheimer, football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.07.11 — "I was promised money, credit cards, apartments, come home on weekends when I wanted to. Everybody was promising something. It was just who was promising me the most." — Derric Evans, high school football player, on recruiting — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.06.11 — "No, we ain't gonna play that. We're gonna kick their butts." — Lee Roy Jordan, football player, waving off a defense called in from the sidelines — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.05.11 — "OK, so we don't intend to win this year, maybe not even next year. It's the future we're concerned with." — Chuck Knox, football coach, after trading away four star players — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.04.11 — "Whenever he was able to impart his confidence, that part of the game just sparkled." — Frank Clark, football player, on Tom Landry, football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.03.11 — "There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental." — Tom Landry, football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.02.11 — "We ought to pay attention to the world of professional sports. What happens at the elite levels makes its way into our culture." — Lucy Danziger, magazine editor — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.01.11 — "Sports has expanded the boundaries of bad behavior and violence." — Robert Lipsyte, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

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