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Posted 03.31.08 — "Basketball is the MTV of sports." — Sara Levinson, professional football executive — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.30.08 — "The sportswriter whose horizons are no wider than the outfield fences is a bad sportswriter." — Red Smith, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.29.08 — "The greatest accolade is silence." — Dolly Stark, basketball official, on officiating — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.28.08 — "I eat what I eat and I weigh what I weigh." — George Foreman, professional boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.27.08 — "The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm and a weak mind." — Dizzy Dean, professional baseball player and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.26.08 — "It's not the fact that men love football that makes modern woman want to scream... It's the assumption that she is incapable of loving it too." — Sally Jenkins, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.25.08 — "Professional athletes should not be role models. Hell, I know drug dealers who can dunk. Can drug dealers be role models?" — Charles Barkley, professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.24.08 — "It's like a gunfight. When you draw, you don't have time to look, only to react." — Bobby Hammond, professional football player, about receiving punts and kickoffs — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.23.08 — "I never understood the value to your broadcasts because I never got to listen, but I've got to tell you that the one thing that keeps me going is hearing your broadcast." — Lou Gehrig, professional baseball player, to broadcaster Mel Allen, after his affliction with ALS forced Gehrig to retire from baseball — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.22.08 — "If you're losing sleep and you have a knot in your stomach, that means you're probably doing your job." — Bill Walsh, college and professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.21.08 — "We Americans are a competitive race. We bet on anything. We love to win." — George S. Patton, U.S. Army general — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.20.08 — "We ought to pay attention to the world of professional sports. What happens at the elite levels makes its way into our culture." — Lucy Danziger, magazine editor — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.19.08 — "Once a player becomes bigger than the team, you no longer have a team." — Red Auerbach, professional basketball coach and team executive — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.18.08 — "No athletic director holds office longer than two unsuccessful football coaches." — Bob Zuppke, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.17.08 — "Sport is a right of the people." — Fidel Castro, communist dictator of Cuba — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.16.08 — "The critics agree the Yale band was two steps faster than Harvard's." — Red Smith, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.15.08 — "The more I practice, the luckier I get." — Gary Player, professional golfer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.14.08 — "College football is an ugly business." — Mike Tomco, college football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.13.08 — "The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." — Roger Bannister, first athlete to run the mile in under four minutes — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.12.08 — "You'll know, because you'll be looking out of your ear hole." — Ronnie Barnes, NFL trainer and East Carolina grad, to player David Meggett, referring to what is known in the league as 'an official NFL hit' — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.11.08 — "Football is the closest thing we have to the Christians and the lions." — Dan Jenkins, author — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.10.08 — "I'm not much of a golfer. I don't have any friends. And, all I like to do the day of a game is go home and be alone and worry about ways not to lose." — Paul 'Bear' Bryant, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.09.08 — "If I ever need a brain transplant, I want one from a sportswriter, because I'll know it's never been used." — Joe Paterno, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.08.08 — "First time I ever slept on my back. Had to, or that medal would have cut my chest." — Muhammad Ali, world champion boxer, on winning an Olympic gold medal — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.07.08 — "When I come back, I want to be reincarnated as a dolphin — or as an F-16." — Bo Jackson, professional baseball and football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.06.08 — "Observing team sports, teams of adult men, one sees how men are children in the most felicitous sense of the word." — Joyce Carol Oates, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.05.08 — "Individual commitment to a group effort, gentlemen, that's what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." — Vince Lombardi, professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.04.08 — "Lifting a barbell ain't like eating no watermelon." — Toad, U.S. Olympic weightlifter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.03.08 — "The (New York) Yankees are only interested in one thing, and I don't know what it is." — Luis Polonia, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.02.08 — "I could sell drugs for a living because I'm a hustler. But why sell drugs and go to prison when I can sell tickets?" — Cleveland Chris, scalper — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.01.08 — "The prevalent nature of the professional football player is that of soldier of fortune. He's trained and willing to bust people up." — Jim Brown, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

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