Posted 02.29.16 — "God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise." — Shoeless Joe Jackson, baseball player [Shoeless Joe Jackson quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.28.16 — "I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it." — Sandy Koufax, baseball pitcher [Sandy Koufax quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.27.16 — "People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring." — Rogers Hornsby, baseball player [Rogers Hornsby quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.26.16 — "As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again." — Roger Maris, baseball player, on the pressure and criticism surrounding his pursuit of Babe Ruth's single-season home run record [Roger Maris quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.25.16 — "I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference." — Lou Gehrig, baseball player, on his stature in the public's eye compared to his teammate, Babe Ruth [Lou Gehrig quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.24.16 — "Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life’s work. Destroy his faith in its squareness and honesty and you have destroyed something more; you have planted suspicion of all things in his heart." — Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Commissioner of Major League Baseball [Kenesaw Mountain Landis quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.23.16 — "If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen." — Joe DiMaggio, baseball player [Joe DiMaggio quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.22.16 — "Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?" — Jim Bouton, baseball pitcher [Jim Bouton quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.21.16 — "I don't make speeches. I just let my bat speak for me in the summertime." — Honus Wagner, baseball player [Honus Wagner quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.20.16 — "The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round." — Gaylord Perry, baseball pitcher [Gaylord Perry quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.19.16 — "I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game, but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport." — Bowie Kuhn, Commissioner of Major League Baseball [Bowie Kuhn quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.18.16 — "Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is." — Bob Feller, baseball pitcher [Bob Feller quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.17.16 — "Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world." — Babe Ruth, baseball player [Babe Ruth quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.16.16 — "There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it." — Joe Louis, boxer [Joe Louis quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.15.16 — "I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight." — Rocky Marciano, boxer [Rocky Marciano quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.14.16 — "Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up." — Michael Jordan, basketball player [Michael Jordan quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.13.16 — "My job is to give my team a chance to win." — Nolan Ryan, baseball pitcher [Nolan Ryan quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.12.16 — "A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that." — Reggie Jackson, baseball player [Reggie Jackson quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.11.16 — "Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next." — George Steinbrenner, New York Yankees owner [George Steinbrenner quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.10.16 — "There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more." — Woody Hayes, football coach [Woody Hayes quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.09.16 — "I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider; then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first thirty feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it had crossed the plate." — Stan Musial, baseball player [Stan Musial quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.08.16 — "The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves." — Mike Ditka, football coach [Mike Ditka quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.07.16 — "Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character." — John Wooden, basketball coach [John Wooden quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.06.16 — "The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy." — Jerry Tarkanian, basketball coach [Jerry Tarkanian quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.05.16 — "The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent." — Dick Vitale, basketball coach and broadcaster [Dick Vitale quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.04.16 — "When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something." — Dick Butkus, football player [Dick Butkus quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.03.16 — "The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare." — Bobby Knight, basketball coach [Bobby Knight quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.02.16 — "You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay." — Don King, boxing promoter [Don King quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 02.01.16 — "I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won." — George Foreman, boxer [George Foreman quotes from azquotes.com]