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Posted 08.31.09 — "In his time, George Herman Ruth was a holy sinner. He was a man of measureless lust, selfishness and appetites, but he was also a man undyingly faithful, in a manner, to both his public and his game." — Roger Kahn, sportswriter, on professional baseball player Babe Ruth — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.30.09 — "No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul." — Bruce McCall, writer, commenting on golf — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.29.09 — "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, Police Chief of Plano, TX, on the death of professional football player Mark Tuinei — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.28.09 — "Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified." — George Vecsey, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.27.09 — "When you think about it, you've probably spent more time with umpires than you spent with your wife." — Richie Ashburn, broadcaster and former professional baseball player, to Tim McCarver, broadcaster and former professional baseball catcher — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.26.09 — "Mother, when I get a telephone call from a beautiful girl like Miss Margaret Foot, I must leave at once — remember, Mother, never let a pitch hang." — Tiny Tim, musician and sports fan — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.25.09 — "I'd walk into the owner's office to talk contract and I'd say, 'Hi ya, partner.' " — Joe DiMaggio, professional baseball player, when asked what he might be worth in today's free agent market — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.24.09 — "There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both." — James Reston, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.23.09 — "Every championship, by definition, is historic." — George Vecsey, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.22.09 — "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 08.21.09 — "Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded, accordion-style, back to full stature without any lasting side effect." — Steve Rushin, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.20.09 — "I fought Sugar Ray [Robinson] six times; I only beat him once. This is my sixth marriage and I ain't won one yet, so I figure I'm due." — Jake Lamotta, professional boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.19.09 — "Outlined against the blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are know as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden." — Grantland Rice, sportswriter, writing on Oct. 28, 1924, about the Notre Dame starting backfield — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.18.09 — "If desire is what we want and dedication is the price we pay to get what we want, then determination is what keeps us there." — Dennis Green, professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.17.09 — "I've got enough problems keeping myself under control without putting some [expletive] in my body that's supposed to make me wild. I do alright on that without any help." — Dennis Rodman, professional basketball player, on shunning drugs — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.16.09 — "When a kid has given you the best he has to give, and you have to tell him it wasn't good enough, that's when you ache inside and think maybe there's a better way to make a living." — Vince Lombardi, professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.15.09 — "Why do I have to talk to these guys who make $6,000 a year when I make $40,000 a year?" — Yogi Berra, professional baseball player, referring to sportswriters — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.14.09 — "Get your ass out of my office, Dr. Dayton. You've got 10 minutes to clean your [expletive deleted] out of my locker room and 10 more minutes to get off campus. I'll mail your last check." — Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach, to the Texas A&M team doctor, whom he felt was too protective of players — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.13.09 — "Something magical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas." — Dan Jenkins, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.12.09 — "You wonder why teams lose? That's a perfect example, if they can't recognize talent like that." — Fran Tarkington, professional football player, about Amad Rashad, who had been passed up in the NFL draft by three losing franchises — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.11.09 — "Nobody running at full speed has either a head or a body." — William Butler Yeats, poet — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.10.09 — "What's important is that kids discover that baseball is fun — and that it gets to be more fun as you get better at it." — Mickey Mantle, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.09.09 — "You win on Sunday, but you can't expect them to roll over for you next week. You've got to go out there next week and prove you're a winner again." — Sam Huff, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.08.09 — "I fought the wall, and the wall won." — Dmitri Young, professional baseball player, after dropping a fly ball when he ran into the outfield wall — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.07.09 — "Could I be a good coach and lose? To me, that's like asking if a guy can be a good doctor even though his patients keep dying." — Red Auerbach, professional basketball coach and team executive — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.06.09 — "It's like a gunfight — when you draw, you don't have time to look, only to react." — Bobby Hammond, professional football player, on receiving punts and kickoffs — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.05.09 — "My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." — Hank Aaron, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.04.09 — "He wants Texas back." — Tommy Lasorda, Los Angeles Dodgers manager, on negotiations with Mexican-born pitcher Fernando Valenzuela — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.03.09 — "The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it — as long as you really believe 100%." — Arnold Schwarzenegger, bodybuilder, actor and California governor — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.02.09 — "God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own." — Ted Williams, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.01.09 — "Ruth must have admired records because he created so many of them." — Red Smith, sportswriter, on professional baseball player Babe Ruth — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

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