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Posted 08.31.13 — "The ironic thing is that I've never seen (Al Davis) and Darth Vader in the same place." — Howie Long, football player, on Al Davis, NFL team owner [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.30.13 — "You're out, and you're ugly, too." — Title of the memoir by Durwood Merrill, baseball umpire [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.29.13 — "A good driver is a helluva lot harder to find than a good wife." — Lee Trevino, thrice-married golfer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.28.13 — "Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire." — George Foreman, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.27.13 — "I slept like a baby — I woke up and cried every two hours." — Fred Taylor, football player, after a loss [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.26.13 — "The only guys I care about are the other 24 guys on my team." — Ken Griffey, Jr., baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.25.13 — "No sport, save possibly steeplechasing and football, is so good a school ... as polo." — George S. Patton, U.S. Army general [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.24.13 — "Awards become corroded; friends gather no dust." — Jesse Owens, Olympic track and field gold medalist [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.23.13 — "Sports do not build character. They reveal it." — Heywood Hale Broun, writer and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.22.13 — "Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up." — Bill Vaughn, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.21.13 — "This is, above all, a game of movement, of accuracy, of flow." — Harvey Araton, sportswriter, on basketball [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.20.13 — "Just a fad — passing fancy." — Philip Wrigley, baseball team owner, on games played after dark under the lights [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.19.13 — "There's about a foot difference between a halo and a noose." — Bobby Bowden, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.18.13 — "More than any other individual, Jack Dempsey created big-time sports in America." — Roger Kahn, writer, on Jack Dempsey, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.17.13 — "If you want to know the truth, I never liked the ... players I butted helmets with. Not even when the game had ended." — Dick Butkus, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.16.13 — "Gipp is no football player. He's a runaway son of a #####." — John J. McEwan, college football coach, on Notre Dame halfback George "The Gipper" Gipp [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.15.13 — "Some of us shake on the outside, some of us on the inside." — Roberto Clemente, baseball player, on getting butterflies [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.14.13 — "There is no way you will ever be a great player unless you want it." — Bobby Knight, basketball coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.13.13 — "I was never knocked out. I've been unconscious, but it's always been on my feet." — Floyd Patterson, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.12.13 — "Sooner or later, God takes it away from all of them — all of them." — Bill Parcells, football coach, on aging [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.11.13 — "The sport is bigger than the man. Any man. Nobody ever shaped the decathlon in his own image." — Bruce Jenner, Olympic decathlon gold medalist [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.10.13 — "I miss football so much — heck, I even miss the interceptions." — Archie Manning, retired NFL quarterback [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.09.13 — "Fatigue makes cowards of us all." — Vince Lombardi, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.08.13 — "I'd rather get Gatorade poured on me than bust my butt selling it." — Bill Parcells, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.07.13 — "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 08.06.13 — "We avoided guys who could play the piano." — Paul Brown, NFL coach and team owner, on one of the principles he followed in making draft selections [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.05.13 — "Character will only take you so far. You've got to have talent." — Karl Malone, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.04.13 — "If a survey was taken, I think you'd find more injuries happen to a quarterback while standing in the pocket than by taking off with a ball." — Steve Grogan, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.03.13 — "In pro football, the college draft is what makes good teams great, as the youngsters imbue a team with their youth and enthusiasm, pushing the veterans to play harder, and sometimes pushing them out." — Peter Golenboch, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.02.13 — "I find that prayers work best when you have big players." — Knute Rockne, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.01.13 — "College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students — there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks." — H.L. Mencken, humorist and author [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]