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Posted 12.31.10 — "You can win and still not succeed, still not achieve what you should. And you can lose without really failing at all." — Bobby Knight, basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.30.10 — "It's good for them. It embarrasses a little, but relieves them a lot. Makes them part of the group." — Vince Lombardi, football coach, about rookie hazing — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.29.10 — "Football is not a game, but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time." — Dr. Arnold Mandell, sports psychologist — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.28.10 — "Man is a ball tossed onto the field of existence, driven hither and thither by the chaugan stick of destiny, wielded by the hand of Providence." — Persian proverb — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.27.10 — "Due to its ingredients... courage, mental and physical condition, spirit and its terrific body contact which tends to sort the men from the boys ... football remains one of the great games of all time." — Grantland Rice, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.26.10 — "My father always told me, in the midst of adversity, in the midst of a struggle, 'It builds character. Stay strong, be positive, look ahead, don't look back.' " — Bruce Smith, football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.25.10 — "The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride them harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension." — Rick Pitino, basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.24.10 — "My job is to win football games. I've got to put people in the stadium, make money for the university, keep the alumni happy, and give the school a winning reputation. If I don't win, I'm gone." — Frank Kush, football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.23.10 — "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." — Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.22.10 — "Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." — Publius Syrus, writer, first century B.C. — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.21.10 — "Sports is a lot of damn nonsense." — Harry S. Truman, U.S. President — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.20.10 — "A quarterback doesn't come into his own until he can tell the coach to go to hell." — Johnny Unitas, football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.19.10 — "All the rookies call me Mr. Long, and I can't recognize any of the music they listen to." — Howie Long, football player and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.18.10 — "Well, I don't think he'd enforce a rigorous curfew." — George Will, political journalist and baseball aficionado, commenting on what kind of baseball manager U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy would be — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.17.10 — "I was never a rah-rah guy. I was never one of those guys that went around and rah-rahed... Rah-rah don't get it done." — Sparky Anderson, baseball player and manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.16.10 — "I wouldn't throw at her, but I might brush her back." — Johnny Allen, baseball pitcher, about baseball player Doc Cramer's contention that Allen would throw at his own mother — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.15.10 — "This series is fixed. You can have it — I'm going to the race track." — Champ Pickens, event promoter, about the 1919 World Series — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.14.10 — "Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own." — Alistair Cooke, writer and historian — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.13.10 — "To so many players, practice is like a pause between their cell-phone conversations." — Mary Conlon, basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.12.10 — "What you're thinking, what shape your mind is in, is what makes the biggest difference of all." — Willie Mays, baseball player, on confidence — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.11.10 — "Leadership is getting people to do something they shouldn't be able to do." — Al Roberts, football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.10.10 — "Jimmy Taylor, the great fullback of the Green Bay Packers, spent four years in college and emerged unscarred by education." — Dick Schaap, sportswriter, author and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.09.10 — "When I come back, I want to be reincarnated as a dolphin — or as an F-16." — Bo Jackson, baseball and football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.08.10 — "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, football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.07.10 — "No athletic director holds office longer than two unsuccessful football coaches." — Bob Zuppke, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.06.10 — "Once a player becomes bigger than the team, you no longer have a team." — Red Auerbach, basketball coach and team executive — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.05.10 — "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 12.04.10 — "We Americans are a competitive race. We bet on anything. We love to win." — George S. Patton, General, U.S. Army — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.03.10 — "If you're losing sleep and you have a knot in your stomach, that means you're probably doing your job." — Bill Walsh, football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.02.10 — "I never understood the value to your broadcasts because I never got to listen, but I've got to tell you that the one thing that keeps me going is hearing your broadcast." — Lou Gehrig, baseball player, to broadcaster Mel Allen, after Gehrig's affliction with ALS forced his retirement from baseball — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.01.10 — "It's like a gunfight. When you draw, you don't have time to look, only to react." — Bobby Hammond, football player, about receiving punts and kickoffs — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

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