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Posted 03.31.12
"A good catcher is the quarterback, the
carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the
traffic cop, and sometimes a lot of unprintable
things. But no team gets very far without one."
Miller Huggins, baseball manager [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.30.12
"Whenever you draft, your chances of being wrong
are much greater than being right. Every time
you take a player, you leave behind 600 or so
others, and chances are that some of them will
turn out to be better than the guy you took. No
matter how you slice it, the numbers are against
you." Bill Tobin, team executive, on the
challenge of deciding on NFL draft picks [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.29.12
"Using one is disrespectful to other players.
Any time you get a chance to talk, you should be
talking to other players about baseball."
James Baldwin, baseball player, on the banning
of cell phones in the Chicago White Sox
clubhouse [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.28.12
"I knew he would have killed me if he caught
me." Cale Yarborough, race car driver, on
Little Joe Weatherly, race car driver, after
Yarborough put a live, defanged rattlesnake in
Weatherly's lap before a race [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.27.12
"Scottsdale Community College teams are called
'The Fighting Artichokes.' That smarty pants
name, like the cheerleader in an artichoke
costume, is drollery intended to de-emphasize
athletics." George Will, political commentator
and baseball aficionado [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.26.12
"Mickey Mantle had those dual qualities so
seldom seen, exuding dynamism and excitement but
at the same time touching your heart flawed,
wounded. We knew that there was something
poignant about Mickey Mantle before we knew what
poignant meant." Bob Costas, broadcaster, on
Mickey Mantle, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.25.12
"It's been a good 'un." Don 'Dandy Don'
Meredith, football player and broadcaster, to a
fellow passenger when it was thought their
airplane flight was going to crash [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.24.12
"A man never gets to this station in life
without being helped, aided, shoved and prodded
to do better. I want to be honest with you; the
players I played with and the coaches I had ...
they are directly responsible for my being
here." Johnny Unitas, football player, on the
occasion of his induction into the Pro Football
Hall of Fame [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.23.12
" 'Rock' used to load us down with extra-heavy
practice gear. On Saturday, when we climbed into
game suits, we felt like four Lady Godivas.
Actually we were four pounds lighter on Saturday
than on weekdays." Elmer Layden, one of Notre
Dame's Four Horsemen, on Knute Rockne, Notre
Dame football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.22.12
"I jumped and skipped around the bases like I
was half nuts. Gee whiz, I kept saying, gee
whiz! I guess you could call me an 'accidental
hero.' " Bobby Thompson, baseball player, who
hit the 'Home Run Heard Round the World' that
gave the New York Giants the 1951 National
League pennant over the Brooklyn Dodgers [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.21.12
"In his time, George Herman Ruth was a holy
sinner. He was a man of measureless lust,
selfishness and appetites, but he was also a man
undyingly faithful, in a manner, to both his
public and his game." Roger Kahn,
sportswriter, on Babe Ruth, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.20.12
"No game designed to be played with the aid of
personal servants by right-handed men who can't
even bring along their dogs can be entirely good
for the soul." Bruce McCall, writer, on golf [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.19.12
"Baseball outfits went through their gaudy
period during the disco '70s, when the White Sox
looked like softball players and the Athletics
looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified."
George Vecsey, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.18.12
"When you think about it, you've probably spent
more time with umpires than you spent with your
wife." Richie Ashburn, broadcaster and former
baseball centerfielder, to Tim McCarver,
broadcaster and former baseball catcher [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.17.12
"Mother, when I get a telephone call from a
beautiful girl like Miss Margaret Foot, I must
leave at once remember, Mother, never let a
pitch hang." Tiny Tim, musician and sports fan [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.16.12
"I'd walk into the owner's office to talk
contract and I'd say, 'Hi ya, partner.' " Joe
DiMaggio, baseball player, when asked what he
might be worth in today's free agent market [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.15.12
"There isn't a single professional sports season
now that doesn't go on at least a month too
long. Baseball starts in football weather, and
football in baseball weather, and basketball
overlaps them both." James Reston, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.14.12
"Every championship, by definition, is
historic." George Vecsey, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.13.12
"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, college football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.12.12
"Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a
person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then
expanded, accordion-style, back to full stature
without any lasting side effect." Steve Rushin,
sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.11.12
"I fought Sugar Ray [Robinson] six times; I only
beat him once. This is my sixth marriage and I
ain't won one yet, so I figure I'm due." Jake
Lamotta, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.10.12
"Outlined against the blue-gray October sky, the
Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they
are know as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and
Death. These are only aliases. Their real names
are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden."
Grantland Rice, sportswriter, writing on Oct.
28, 1924, about the Notre Dame football starting
backfield [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.09.12
"If desire is what we want and dedication is the
price we pay to get what we want, then
determination is what keeps us there." Dennis
Green, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.08.12
"I've got enough problems keeping myself under
control without putting some #### in my body
that's supposed to make me wild. I do alright on
that without any help." Dennis Rodman,
basketball player, on shunning drugs [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.07.12
"Get your ass out of my office, Dr. Dayton.
You've got ten minutes to clean your #### out of
my locker room and ten more minutes to get off
campus. I'll mail your last check." Paul
"Bear" Bryant, college football coach, to Texas
A&M head trainer Bill Dayton, whom Bryant felt was
too protective of the team's players [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.06.12
"Something magical happens to every writer who
goes to the Masters for the first time, some
sort of emotional experience that results in a
search party having to be sent out to recover
his typewriter from a clump of azaleas." Dan
Jenkins, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.05.12
"You wonder why teams lose? That's a perfect
example, if they can't recognize talent like
that." Fran Tarkington, football player, on
Amad Rashad, who had been passed up in the NFL
draft by three losing franchises [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.04.12
"Nobody running at full speed has either a head
or a body." William Butler Yeats, poet [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.03.12
"You win on Sunday, but you can't expect them to
roll over for you next week. You've got to go
out there next week and prove you're a winner
again." Sam Huff, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.02.12
"I fought the wall, and the wall won." Dmitri
Young, baseball player, after dropping a fly
ball when he ran into the outfield wall [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 03.01.12
"He wants Texas back." Tommy Lasorda, baseball
manager, on negotiations with Mexican-born
pitcher Fernando Valenzuela [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
