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Posted 05.31.08 — "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." — Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.30.08 — "A life is not important, but for the impact it has on others' lives." — Jackie Robinson, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.29.08 — "My job is to win football games. I've got to put people in the stadium, make money for the university, keep the alumni happy, and give the school a winning reputation. If I don't win, I'm gone." — Frank Kush, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.28.08 — "The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride them harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension." — Rick Pitino, college and professional basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.27.08 — "What you had was a 39-year-old male, 6-foot-5, in excess of 300 pounds, a healthy individual, took one shot of heroin and basically dropped dead as a result." — Bruce Glassrock, Plano, TX, police chief, on the death of professional football player Mark Tuinei — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.26.08 — "Gentlemen, you are about to play football for Yale. Never again in your lives will you do anything so important." — Tad Jones, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.25.08 — "I'd rather get Gatorade poured on me than bust my butt selling it." — Bill Parcells, professional football coach, on his disdain for endorsements — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.24.08 — "My father always told me, in the midst of adversity, in the midst of a struggle, 'It builds character. Stay strong, be positive, look ahead, don't look back.' " — Bruce Smith, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.23.08 — "Due to its ingredients... courage, mental and physical condition, spirit and its terrific body contact which tends to sort the men from the boys ... football remains one of the great games of all time." — Grantland Rice, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.22.08 — "Try to exercise, eat better, try to do some fun things with my wife." — Tom Davis, college basketball coach, on what he was going to do after being fired — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.21.08 — "I am a kicker, but I'm tough. On kickoffs, I'll barrel through there and knock those runners right on my fanny." — Errol Mann, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.20.08 — "Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary." — Ray Knight, professional baseball player and manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.19.08 — "Man is a ball tossed onto the field of existence, driven hither and thither by the chaugan stick of destiny, wielded by the hand of Providence." — Persian proverb — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.18.08 — "SportByte™: "Football is not a game, but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time." — Dr. Arnold Mandell, sports psychologist — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.17.08 — "It's good for them. It embarrasses a little, but relieves them a lot. Makes them part of the group." — Vince Lombardi, professional football coach, about rookie hazing — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.16.08 — "You can win and still not succeed, still not achieve what you should. And you can lose without really failing at all." — Bobby Knight, college basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.15.08 — "Sports has expanded the boundaries of bad behavior and violence." — Robert Lipsyte, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.14.08 — "If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means the most to me." — Arthur Ashe, champion tennis player, in his book Days of Grace — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.13.08 — "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 05.12.08 — "There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental." — Tom Landry, professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.11.08 — "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 05.10.08 — "Just a fad — passing fancy." — Philip Wrigley, baseball team owner, on playing games at night under the lights — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.09.08 — "Whenever Rock opened his kisser, the throng became as silent as a tomb." — Harry Grayson, sportswriter, on college football coach Knute Rockne — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.08.08 — "Whenever he was able to impart his confidence, that part of the game just sparkled." — Frank Clark, professional football player, about professional football coach Tom Landry — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.07.08 — "Winning is like shaving. You do it every day, or you end up looking like a bum." — Jack Kemp, professional football player and U.S. congressman — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.06.08 — "Sportsmanship should be the very mortar of an athlete but never an entity in itself for conscious display." — Grantland Rice, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.05.08 — "OK, so we don't intend to win this year, maybe not even next year. It's the future we're concerned with." — Chuck Knox, professional football coach, after trading away four star players — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.04.08 — "No, we ain't gonna play that. We're gonna kick their butts." — Lee Roy Jordan, professional football player, waving off a defense called in from the sidelines — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.03.08 — "I was promised money, credit cards, apartments, come home on weekends when I wanted to. Everybody was promising something. It was just who was promising me the most." — Derric Evans, high school football player, on recruiting — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.02.08 — "The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think." — Paul 'Bear' Bryant, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.01.08 — "A boy who doesn't like contact shouldn't play football, because he isn't going to change." — Red Blaik, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

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