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Posted 09.30.09 — "I'm just a ballplayer with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my ball club win. I've never played any other way." — Joe DiMaggio, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.29.09 — "Every player who is sitting here who lifted up the Cup for the first time will tell you the same thing. There's no feeling like lifting up the Stanley Cup." — Wayne Gretzky, professional hockey player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.28.09 — "If you have hope, there's light at the end of the tunnel. Hope makes you better. The air in the locker room is different when you have hope." — Dixon Ward, professional hockey player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.27.09 — "If I was half the coach on the bench that I was in the stands, we'll have no problems." — Bob Plager, professional hockey coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.26.09 — "Winning tends to heal uneasiness and promote job security." — Selena Roberts, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.25.09 — "He who lives by the cheap shot dies by the cross-check." — Stan Fischler, hockey commentator and historian — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.24.09 — "He was the greatest [player] in the history of his sport, perhaps the single most innovative North American athlete since Babe Ruth. He changed his game." — George Vecsey, sportswriter, on professional hockey player Wayne Gretzky — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.23.09 — "The Edmonton Oilers without Wayne Gretzky is like Wheel of Fortune without Vanna White." — Attributed by Joel Stein, sportswriter, to the Leader of the Canadian House — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.22.09 — "There's a love of the game in this city that is very difficult to put into words. You start off when you're very young and you never get it out of your system. You might get married to a woman, but basketball is still your first love." — Willie Hall, street basketball player, Harlem — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.21.09 — "A team is as skittish as a herd of animals — like gazelles — and a wrong word or decision can rile them up so they never can really be set straight again." — George Plimpton, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.20.09 — "He can't hit, he can't run, he can't field, he can't throw, but if there's a way to beat the other team, he'll find it." — Branch Rickey, baseball executive, on professional baseball player Ed Stanky — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.19.09 — "There's only a little margin between winning and losing. A lot of luck is involved. It's hard to get too excited when you know that you could have lost as easily as you won." — Doug Atkins, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.18.09 — "Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control." — Tom Landry, professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.17.09 — "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 09.16.09 — "The casualty rate is three or four times higher than any other sport. Last year, we had nine deaths, quite a few broken backs, and quite a few paralyzed." — Eddie Arroyo, jockey, on horse racing — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.15.09 — "A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop, and sometimes a lot of unprintable things. But no team gets very far without one." — Miller Huggins, professional baseball manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.14.09 — "Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved." — Red Smith, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.13.09 — "In pro football, the college draft is what makes good teams great, as the youngsters imbue a team with their youth and enthusiasm, pushing the veterans to play harder, and sometimes pushing them out." — Peter Golenboch, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.12.09 — "Whenever you draft, your chances of being wrong are much greater than being right. Every time you take a player, you leave behind 600 or so others, and chances are that some of them will turn out to be better than the guy you took. No matter how you slice it, the numbers are against you." — Bill Tobin, NFL team executive — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.11.09 — "We are here for the purpose to win for the fans. That is who we work for." — Roberto Clemente, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.10.09 — "Well, I don't think he'd enforce a rigorous curfew." — George Will, political columnist and baseball aficionado, to Roy Firestone, television interviewer, about what kind of baseball manager U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy would be — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.09.09 — "Using one is disrespectful to other players. Any time you get a chance to talk, you should be talking to other players about baseball." — James Baldwin, professional baseball player, on the banning of cell phones in the Chicago White Sox clubhouse — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.08.09 — "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 09.07.09 — "I knew he would have killed me if he caught me." — Cale Yarborough, race car driver, about Little Joe Weatherly, after Yarborough put a live, defanged rattlesnake in Weatherly's lap while Weatherly was getting ready to race — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.06.09 — "Scottsdale Community College teams are called 'The Fighting Artichokes.' That smarty pants name, like the cheerleader in an artichoke costume, is drollery intended to de-emphasize athletics." — George Will, political commentator — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.05.09 — "Mickey Mantle had those dual qualities so seldom seen, exuding dynamism and excitement but at the same time touching your heart — flawed, wounded. We knew that there was something poignant about Mickey Mantle before we knew what poignant meant." — Bob Costas, broadcaster, on professional baseball player Mickey Mantle — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.04.09 — "It's been a good 'un." — Don Meredith, professional football player and broadcaster, to a fellow passenger when it was thought their plane was going to crash — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.03.09 — "A man never gets to this station in life without being helped, aided, shoved and prodded to do better. I want to be honest with you; the players I played with and the coaches I had ... they are directly responsible for my being here." — Johnny Unitas, professional football player, when he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.02.09 — "Rock used to load us down with extra-heavy practice gear. On Saturday, when we climbed into game suits, we felt like four Lady Godivas. Actually we were four pounds lighter on Saturday than on weekdays." — Elmer Layden, college football player, one of Notre Dame's Four Horsemen, speaking of Knute Rockne, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 09.01.09 — "I jumped and skipped around the bases like I was half nuts. Gee whiz, I kept saying, gee whiz! I guess you could call me an accidental hero." — Bobby Thompson, professional baseball player, who hit the 'Home Run Heard Round the World' that gave the New York Giants the 1951 National League pennant over the Brooklyn Dodgers — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

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