Posted 06.30.13 — "When you step on that field, you cannot concede a thing." — Gale Sayers, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.29.13 — "You travel around Texas with me, and everyone wants to talk about Nolan Ryan." — George W. Bush, U.S. president, Texas governor and Major League team owner, on pitcher Nolan Ryan [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.28.13 — "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 [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.27.13 — "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 [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.26.13 — "Don't get sand kicked in your face." — Charles Atlas, also known as Angelo Siciliano, bodybuilder, from an advertisement for his bodybuilding regimens [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.25.13 — "Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently." — Cus D'Amato, boxing trainer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.24.13 — "When I read the sports pages these days, I think I'm reading the Wall Street Journal." — Dan Jansen, Olympic skater, on sports business dollars [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.23.13 — "Fighting has been part of hockey for 50 years. It'll be with us another 50. Count on it." — John Ferguson, hockey player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.22.13 — "Rushing the passer is grueling work. It requires a great outlay of speed, strength, energy and determination. A man must drive himself if he is going to break through on every pass play." — Stanley Woodward, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.21.13 — "We're basically a save-the-whales team; we can't turn down big people who can play." — George Young, NFL team executive [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.20.13 — "How many other times a year do you get to see dogs with better haircuts than their owners?" — Linda Stasi, journalist, writing about dog shows [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.19.13 — "That last one sounded kind of high to me." — Babe Ruth, baseball player, questioning the umpire about three fast pitches that had whizzed across the plate unseen [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.18.13 — "Vince fears high winds make every forward pass a gamble. To Vincent T. Lombardi, gambling on a football field is a crime against nature." — Red Smith, sportswriter, on Vince Lombardi, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.17.13 — "He doesn't cook very well." — Michael Chang, tennis player, when asked to identify a weakness in the game of Pete Sampras, tennis player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.16.13 — "You've got to be a son-of-a-##### to play this game right." — Carl Brettschnieder, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.15.13 — "Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme." — Alfred Shrubb, runner [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.14.13 — "These are the saddest words – Tinker to Evers to Chance. Picking forever our gonfalon bubble, Causing a Giant to hit into a double, Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble, Tinker to Evers to Chance." — Franklin Pierce Adams, sportswriter and New York Giants fan, describing with poetry the Cubs' famous double-play combination of shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers and first baseman Frank Chance [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.13.13 — "That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my #%@# clothes." — Karas Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, on why he kept a color photo of himself above his locker [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.12.13 — "For years, coaches would not allow athletes to lift weights because it made them look muscle-bound. Now weight training is a main part of almost any team's training program." — Lou Ferrigno, bodybuilder, football player and actor [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.11.13 — "It's a lot harder to be a football coach than a President. You've got four years as President, and they guard you. A coach doesn't have anyone to protect him when things go wrong." — Harry Truman, U.S. President [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.10.13 — "I can sympathize with Canadians whose noses are out of joint. How would Americans feel if the baseball commissioner was Japanese?" — Bob McKenzie, columnist, on the Americanization of hockey, which Canadians consider to be their national sport [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.09.13 — "Ever to be the best and to surpass others." — Achilles, in The Odyssey, by Homer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.08.13 — "I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way." — Joe DiMaggio, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.07.13 — "He who lives by the cheap shot dies by the cross-check." — Stan Fischler, hockey commentator and historian [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.06.13 — "He was the greatest in the history of his sport, perhaps the single most innovative North American athlete since Babe Ruth. He changed his game." — George Vecsey, sportswriter, on Wayne Gretzky, hockey player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.05.13 — "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 06.04.13 — "The casualty rate is three or four times higher than any other sport. Last year, we had nine deaths, quite a few broken backs, and quite a few paralyzed." — Eddie Arroyo, jockey, on horse racing [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.03.13 — "A team is as skittish as a herd of animals — like gazelles — and a wrong word or decision can rile them up so they never can really be set straight again." — George Plimpton, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.02.13 — "We are here for the purpose to win for the fans. That is who we work for." — Roberto Clemente, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.01.13 — "Whenever you draft, your chances of being wrong are much greater than being right. Every time you take a player, you leave behind six hundred 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, NFL team executive, on the challenge of selecting draft picks [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]