Posted 12.31.14 — "If you're not sure what to do with the ball, just pop it in the net and we'll discuss your options afterwards." — Bill Shankly, former Liverpool manager, to soccer forward Ian St. John [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.30.14 — "I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball." — Pete Rose, Major League Baseball player and manager [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.29.14 — "I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast." — Eddie Bane, Major League Baseball pitcher [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.28.14 — "Vengeance is for God, I'm just here to play tennis." — Serena Williams, tennis player, when asked about avenging her 2002 loss to Kim Clijsters [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.27.14 — "I love me some me." — Terrell Owens, NFL football player [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.26.14 — "The don't think it be like it is, but it do." — Oscar Gamble, Major League Baseball player [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.25.14 — "When you're rich, you don't write checks. Straight cash, homie." — Randy Moss, football player, on being fined by the NFL [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.24.14 — "Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move." — Satchel Paige, Major League Baseball pitcher [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.23.14 — "Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron and a dork?" — John McEnroe, tennis player  [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.22.14 — "I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that." — Jerry Rice, legendary NFL receiver, speaking to a reporter [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.21.14 — "So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one — big hitter, the Lama — long, into a 10,000-foot crevice, right at the base of this glacier. And do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga — gunga galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice." — Carl Spackler, character in the motion picture Caddyshack, on caddying for the Dalai Lama [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.20.14 — "Football is a simple game: 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win." — Gary Lineker, former Barcelona and English national team soccer player [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.19.14 — "Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever." — Billie Jean King, tennis player, on how much she hated to lose [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.18.14 — "The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward." — Terry Crisp, hockey coach, after his Lightning team lost lost a game 10-0 [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.17.14 — "A virgin." — Peter Crouch, soccer player, when asked what he would be if he wasn't a professional soccer player [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.16.14 — "I'm the best ever. I'm the most vicious and most brutal and most ruthless champion there's ever been. There's no one can stop me. Lennox is the conqueror? No, I'm Alexander. I'm the best ever. There's never been anyone as ruthless. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There's no one that can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable. I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah." Mike Tyson, boxer, after beating Lou Savarese in 38 seconds [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.15.14 — "I heard Tonya Harding was calling herself the Charles Barkley of figure skating. I was going to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized I have no character." — Charles Barkley, former NBA player [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.14.14 — "Why is a puck called a puck. Because 'dirty little bastard' was already taken." — Martin Brodeur, hockey player [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.13.14 — "I should be a postage stamp. That's the only way I'll ever get licked." — Muhammad Ali, boxer [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.12.14 — "Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitas 17 times in a row." — Vitas Gerulaitas, tennis player, upon beating Jimmy Connors after 16 consecutive losses to him  [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.11.14 — "The ship be sinking." — Michael Ray Richardson, NBA player, on the Knicks' collapse during the 1981-82 season [Best Sports Quotes of All Time from USA Today]

Posted 12.10.14 — "In this country, you either finish first or last, there is no second place." — Buddy Werner, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.09.14 — "Get more open – I'm getting old." — Dan Marino, NFL quarterback, to Lamar Thomas, NFL receiver [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.08.14 — "Cheating is as much a part of the game as scorecards and hot dogs." — Billy Martin, baseball player and manager [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.07.14 — "When I come back, I want to be reincarnated as a dolphin — or as an F-16." — Bo Jackson, baseball and football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.06.14 — "It was a lifetime of training for just 10 seconds." — Jesse Owens, Olympic track and field gold medalist [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.05.14 — "There have been only two geniuses in the world. Willie Mays and William Shakespeare." — Tallulah Bankhead, actress [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.04.14 — "Sports is a lot of damn nonsense." — Harry S. Truman, United States President [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.03.14 — "[Joe] DiMaggio's [hitting] streak is the most extraordinary thing that ever happened in American sports." — Steven Jay Gould, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.02.14 — "Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can win, you won't." — Jerry West, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 12.01.14 — "If I ever need a brain transplant, I want one from a sportswriter, because I'll know it's never been used." — Joe Paterno, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]