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Posted 10.31.10 � "When you come right down to it, the baseball owners are really little boys with big wallets." � Harold Parrott, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.30.10 � "I like to throw the ball. To me, the pro game is throwing. I may be wrong, but putting the ball in the air is the way to win." � Y.A. Tittle, NFL quarterback � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.29.10 � "The hardest part of any slump is looking up at the scoreboard and seeing your stats in huge numbers." � Jason Giambi, baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.28.10 � "Just once I'd like to see a picture of one of these guys with the caption 'He's a dog' underneath it. 'Ate up $8,000 worth of groceries in four years and can't play worth a lick.' " � Abe Lemons, college basketball coach, on recruits � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.27.10 � "He talks okay up there with a bat in his hands. A college education don't do you no good up there." � Casey Stengel, manager, on Yogi Berra, baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.26.10 � "It took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." � Hank Aaron, baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.25.10 � "I'm just a ball player with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my club win. I've never played any other way." � Joe DiMaggio, baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.24.10 � "The most difficult aspect of dealing with sportswriters is their assumption of moral superiority. They insist on advising everyone." � Glenn Seaburg, college chancellor � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.23.10 � "Great stars that knew their days in fame's bright sun. I hear them trampling to oblivion." � Grantland Rice, sportswriter, on the fleeting nature of fame � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.22.10 � "Don't try to perform beyond your abilities � but never perform below them." � Frank Robinson, baseball player and manager � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.21.10 � "I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can." � Babe Ruth, baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.20.10 � "There is nothing harder to do in all of sports than hitting a home run." � Ted Williams, baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.19.10 � "There were days when Mickey Mantle was so good that we kids would bet that even God would want his autograph." � Bob Costas, broadcaster � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.18.10 � "There is no room in baseball for a clown." � Chuck Dressen, baseball manager, to Bob Uecker, baseball player, broadcaster and humorist � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.17.10 � "Willie Mays was my boyhood hero, but not because he was a great baseball player. Because he had a big house." � O.J. Simpson, football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.16.10 � "Football is unique and good. Where else in life do you see dedication and teamwork and spirit? People enjoy it because it is reassuring to them to see good things." � Woody Hayes, football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.15.10 � "One sign of a hero is if you feel enhanced simply when talking about him � recounting his feats, recalling a time when your own little life was touched by his." � Roger Rosenblatt, sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.14.10 � "Listen, I'm a leader. If anyone gives me trouble in a huddle � I don't care who they are � I'm going to sting them." � Terry Bradshaw, quarterback � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.13.10 � "I'll moider da bum." � Tony Galento, heavyweight boxer, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.12.10 � "Mickey Mantle just was everything. At my bar mitzvah I had an Oklahoma accent. And I think I once told my parents, 'Play me or trade me.' � Billy Crystal, comedian � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.11.10 � "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." � Vince Lombardi, football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.10.10 � "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, football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.09.10 � "You can be sold, traded or released at will. You are carried on the books as a depreciable capital asset and exist like a piece of chattel." � Rick Sortun, professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.08.10 � "It relieves the manager of all responsibility except to post the lineup card on the dugout wall and make sure everybody gets to the airport on time." � Red Smith, sportswriter, on the designated hitter rule � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.07.10 � "Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo." � Tony Kornheiser, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.06.10 � "You can play very well and lose, or play very badly and win. Things can happen. And you know what? That's just the way it goes." � Carl Eller, football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.05.10 � "Take away the hot dog and all its attendant comestibles, such as peanuts, popcorn, Cracker Jacks and egg salad sandwiches, and you'd have a different country." � Wells Twombly, sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.04.10 � "Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear." � John Madden, football coach and broadcaster � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.03.10 � "I don't need to hit a home run anymore. I only have to hit a single. I do everything for the team. I just want to win." � Sammy Sosa, baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.02.10 � "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, football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.01.10 � "Losing is the great American sin." � Jerome Holtzman, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

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