Posted 03.31.14 — "Basketball is the city game." — Pete Axthelm, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.30.14 — "All great fishermen go to bed early." — Ted Williams, baseball player and world-class fisherman [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.29.14 — "Monday Night Football." — Camille Paglia, feminist writer, when asked what was her favorite television show [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.28.14 — "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 baseball fan, describing with a poem the Chicago 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 03.27.14 — "It's good for them. It embarrasses a little, but relieves them a lot. Makes them part of the group." — Vince Lombardi, football coach, on rookie hazing in the NFL [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.26.14 — "That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my #%@# clothes." — Karas Grimson, hockey player, who kept a color photo of himself above his locker [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.25.14 — "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 03.24.14 — "Running on an artificial leg at full speed is like driving backwards at 55 miles per hour, using only your rearview mirror to guide you." — Thomas Bourgeois, runner and below-the-knee amputee [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.23.14 — "People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be diverted, factoring in all the interruptions." — Wayne Gretzky, hockey player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.22.14 — "Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel. Not just to be as good as everyone else, but to be better. This is the nature of man, and this is the name of the game." — Ted Williams, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.21.14 — "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 03.20.14 — "It's the kind of place where you can be a successful neurosurgeon, but if you were a lousy football player, people still look at you funny." — Geno DeMarco, Geneva College football coach, on local fans [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.19.14 — "Coaching is teaching. Some coaches try to make what they do sound mysterious and complicated when it's not... to be a good coach, you have to be a good teacher." — John Madden, football coach and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.18.14 — "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 feel is their national sport [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.17.14 — "Ever to be the best and to surpass others." — Achilles, in The Odyssey, by Homer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.16.14 — "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 03.15.14 — "Every player who is sitting here who lifted up the Cup for the first time will tell you the same thing. There's no feeling like lifting up the Stanley Cup." — Wayne Gretzky, hockey player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.14.14 — "If you have hope, there's light at the end of the tunnel. Hope makes you better. The air in the locker room is different when you have hope." — Dixon Ward, hockey player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.13.14 — "If I was half the coach on the bench that I was in the stands, we'll have no problems." — Bob Plager, hockey coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.12.14 — "Winning tends to heal uneasiness and promote job security." — Selena Roberts, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.11.14 — "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 03.10.14 — "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 03.09.14 — "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 [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.08.14 — "Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control." — Tom Landry, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.07.14 — "There's only a little margin between winning and losing. A lot of luck is involved. It's hard to get too excited when you know that you could have lost as easily as you won." — Doug Atkins, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.06.14 — "He can't hit, he can't run, he can't field, he can't throw, but if there's a way to beat the other team, he'll find it." — Branch Rickey, baseball executive, on Ed Stanky, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.05.14 — "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 03.04.14 — "There's a love of the game in this city that is very difficult to put into words. You start off when you're very young and you never get it out of your system. You might get married to a woman, but basketball is still your first love." — Willie Hall, street basketball player, Harlem [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.03.14 — "My catcher, Mr. Berra, is wearing a lemon on his thumb." — Casey Stengel, baseball manager, referring to a lemon that Yogi Berra, baseball player, was wearing on his thumb for three days at the insistence of his mother, contrary to the orders of the team physician [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.02.14 — "The Edmonton Oilers without Wayne Gretzky is like Wheel of Fortune without Vanna White." — Nelson Riis, Canadian Parliament Member [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 03.01.14 — "He was the greatest [player] 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]