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Posted 04.30.11 �
"Only boring people find baseball boring."
� Peter Golenbach, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.29.11 �
"It would be a real misfortune to lose so
manly and vigorous a game as football..." �
Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.28.11 �
"Monday Night Football..." � Camille Paglia,
writer and feminist, when asked her favorite TV
show [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.27.11 �
"Everybody loves a gambler, until he
loses..." � Vince Lombardi, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.26.11 �
"The secret is watching the center and
going with the snap..." � Nate Allen, football
player, on blocking punts and field goals [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.25.11 �
"He was sometimes unbearable, but he was
never dull..." � Ed Linn, sportswriter, on
baseball player Ted Williams [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.24.11 �
"Winning is like shaving. You do it every
day, or you end up looking like a bum..." � Jack
Kemp, football player, U.S. congressman and U.S.
cabinet member [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.23.11 �
"Just a fad � passing fancy..." � Philip
Wrigley, team owner, on baseball games played
after dark under the lights [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.22.11 �
"If they took away our sticks and gave us
brooms, we'd still fight..." � Phil Esposito,
hockey player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.21.11 �
"There are two kinds of coaches. The kind
that have just been fired and the kind that are
going to get fired..." � Bum Phillips, football
coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.20.11 �
"It was a storm precisely like this one
that saved England from the Spanish Armada..." �
Ted Turner, yachtsman, baseball owner and cable
TV pioneer, on the storm that struck a 1979
English Channel yacht race [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.19.11 �
"Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but
good shortstops are hard to find..." � Charles
O. Finley, baseball team owner [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.18.11 �
"I made some mistakes � my immaturity is
the one thing that sticks out � but I've learned
a lot. Sometimes that takes time..." � Kerry
Collins, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.17.11 �
"If Howard Cosell was a sport, it would be
Roller Derby..." � Jimmy Cannon, sportswriter,
on the controversial broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.16.11 �
"I'm sick of people talking about money,
money, money all the time..." � Shaquille
O'Neal, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.15.11 �
"The ball sailed so high that when it came
down it was coated with ice." � Bill McGeehan,
sportswriter, on one of Babe Ruth's home runs [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.14.11 �
"There's a foot difference between a halo
and a noose..." � Bobby Bowden, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.13.11 �
"DiMaggio's streak is the most
extraordinary thing that ever happened in
American sports..." � Steven Jay Gould, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.12.11 �
"Confidence is a lot of this game or any
game. If you don't think you can win, you
won't..." � Jerry West, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.11.11 �
"When the astronauts walked on the moon I
figured we had a chance to win. Nothing seemed
impossible after that..." � Tug McGraw, pitcher,
describing the 'Miracle Mets' of 1969 [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.10.11 �
"You couldn't play on my 'Amazing Mets'
without having held some kind of record, like
one fella held the world's international
all-time record for a pitcher getting hit on the
ankles..." � Casey Stengel, baseball manager [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.09.11 �
"A lot of parents think kids ought to learn
responsibility from work, and I've always said,
'Baloney.' Kids learn leadership and
organization from games, from having fun..." �
John Madden, football coach and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.08.11 �
"I don't need to be practicing, I'm leading
this tournament. You guys go on and practice,
because you're behind..." � Lee Trevino, golfer,
to fellow competitors after a good first round [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.07.11 �
"That boy is too clumsy and too slow..." �
Branch Rickey, baseball executive, on
then-unknown prospect Yogi Berra [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.06.11 �
"If you're a gymnast something is always
hurting, but you still train. You just have to
learn to live with discomfort..." � Mary Lou
Retton, Olympic gold medalist [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.05.11 �
"The way to make coaches think you're in
shape in the spring is to get a tan..." � Whitey
Ford, baseball player, on Spring Training [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.04.11 �
"It's in the mindset of the players and
managers to cheat whenever they get a chance.
They believe it is the equivalent of their First
Amendment right to cheat..." � Durwood Merrill,
umpire [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.03.11 �
"The reasons I was playing the game have
always been the same. The game was all I cared
about; it never felt like a job..." � Dennis
Rodman, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.02.11 �
"If the on-deck batter is standing too
close to home plate, you brush him back..." �
Brent Kemnitz, Wichita State baseball coach, who
was suspended after one of his pitchers ended
the career of an on-deck batter with a beanball [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.01.11 �
"You would have to take a stun gun or
whatever and shoot him to get him off that
court. He's going to leave it all out there..."
� Jeff Van Gundy, basketball coach, on Patrick
Ewing, basketball player, who played a game with
a torn Achilles tendon and led his team to a win [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
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