Posted 07.31.15 — "Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets and the kids out of the house." — Yogi Berra, baseball player and manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 07.30.15 — "Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don’t do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time." — Vince Lombardi, football coach [Quotes from Vince Lombardi]

Posted 07.29.15 — "A ball bat is a wondrous weapon." — Ty Cobb, baseball player [Baseball Quotes from Ty Cobb]

Posted 07.28.15 — "The only reason I played golf was so that I could afford to go hunting and fishing." — Sam Snead, professional golfer [Golf Quotes from Sam Snead]

Posted 07.27.15 — "Just do what you do best." — Red Auerbach, basketball coach and team executive [Quotes from Red Auerbach]

Posted 07.26.15 — "As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game." — Larry Bird, basketball player [Larry Bird Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]

Posted 07.25.15 — "Things were changing fast by that time, women were beginning to come to the ball parks. We had to stop cussing." — Honus Wagner, baseball player, on cultural changes that occurred during his career, which spanned the late 19th and early 20th centuries  [Baseball Quotes from Honus Wagner]

Posted 07.24.15 — "Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world." — Dizzy Dean, baseball pitcher [Baseball Quotes from Dizzy Dean]

Posted 07.23.15 — "The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all." — Bob Cousy, basketball player and coach [Bob Cousy Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]

Posted 07.22.15 — "It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game – play by play." — Bart Starr, football player [Football Quotes from Bart Starr]

Posted 07.21.15 — "Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated." — Arnold Palmer, professional golfer [Golf Quotes from Arnold Palmer]

Posted 07.20.15 — "What are we out at the park for, except to win?" — Leo Durocher, baseball manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 07.19.15 — The Duke of Windsor: "I've heard about you." Response by Mickey Mantle, baseball player: "I've heard about you, too." — [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 07.18.15 — "Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote, 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old." — Casey Stengel, baseball manager, recalling an occasion when he was signing autographs [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 07.17.15 — "I wish everybody had the drive he had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field." — Yogi Berra, baseball player and manager, on Joe DiMaggio, baseball player [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 07.16.15 — "Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." — Vince Lombardi, football coach [Quotes from Vince Lombardi]

Posted 07.15.15 — "Most of all I was saddling that team with a psychological burden so that they would be muttering, 'Cobb is crazy. He'll run anytime and in any situation.' It would help give them the jitters and they'd concentrate so much on me they were not paying any attention to the business at hand. My failures rarely were complete failures. They were more like future investments." — Ty Cobb, baseball player, on the effect on opposing teams of his always-present threat to steal a base or to take advantage of other opportunities to advance an extra base  [Baseball Quotes from Ty Cobb]

Posted 07.14.15 — "The only reason I played golf was so that I could afford to go hunting and fishing." — Sam Snead, professional golfer [Golf Quotes from Sam Snead]

Posted 07.13.15 — "The best way to forget one's self is to look at the world with attention and love." — Red Auerbach, basketball coach and team executive [Quotes from Red Auerbach]

Posted 07.12.15 — "A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals." — Larry Bird, basketball player [Larry Bird Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]

Posted 07.11.15 — "There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer." — Honus Wagner, baseball player [Baseball Quotes from Honus Wagner]

Posted 07.10.15 — "I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head." — Dizzy Dean, baseball pitcher [Baseball Quotes from Dizzy Dean]

Posted 07.09.15 — "Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful in anything that you put your mind to." — Bob Cousy, basketball player and coach [Bob Cousy Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]

Posted 07.08.15 — "My dad never pushed me but the big thing is that he helped me by going out in the backyard and playing with me." — Bart Starr, football player [Football Quotes from Bart Starr]

Posted 07.07.15 — "What other people may find in poetry, I find in the flight of a good drive." — Arnold Palmer, professional golfer [Golf Quotes from Arnold Palmer]

Posted 07.06.15 — "There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth." — Leo Durocher, baseball manager, on Larry MacPhail, baseball team executive [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 07.05.15 — "I leaned on him for support when I got out of the cab, and he just crumpled to the ground. That's how we found out." — Mickey Mantle, baseball player, on his father, Mutt Mantle, when they took a cab to Lenox Hill hospital in New York after Mickey was injured in the second game of the 1951 World Series — both father and son were admitted to the hospital and tests showed Mutt had contracted Hodgkin's Disease [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 07.04.15 — "Without losers where would winners be?" — Casey Stengel, baseball manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 07.03.15 — "It gets late early out there." — Yogi Berra, baseball player and manager [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 07.02.15 — "The greens are harder than a whore's heart." — Sam Snead, professional golfer [Golf Quotes from Sam Snead]

Posted 07.01.15 — "Rarely should a base runner risk a steal when the game is in balance. It's to be used when you can afford to fail." — Ty Cobb, baseball player [Baseball Quotes from Ty Cobb]