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Posted 11.30.10 � "Professional athletes should not be role models. Hell, I know drug dealers who can dunk. Can drug dealers be role models?" � Charles Barkley, professional basketball player  � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.29.10 � "The greatest accolade is silence." � Dolly Stark, basketball official, on officiating  � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.28.10 � "The sportswriter whose horizons are no wider than the outfield fences is a bad sportswriter." � Red Smith, sportswriter  � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.27.10 � "Have you ever seen a Fellini movie? My life is like a Fellini movie." � George Karl, basketball coach  � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.26.10 � "Which game do I like better? I like baseball better in the spring. I like football better in the fall." � Bo Jackson, baseball and football player  � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.25.10 � "Whitey (Ford) and Mick (Mickey Mantle) both made the Hall of Fame and I didn't. I wasn't a bad influence on them, they were a bad influence on me." � Billy Martin, baseball player and manager  � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.24.10 � "The box score always adds up � politics never does." � James Reston, journalist and author  � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.23.10 � "The will to win is grossly overstated. The will to prepare is far more important." � Bobby Knight, basketball coach  � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.22.10 � "If you make plays and the team wins, the fans will be fine. I don't worry about the fans." � Donavan McNabb, football player  � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.21.10 � "There's a lot of people in this sport that live through their kids. We'll never do that." � Jack Lipinski, father of Olympic gold medalist figure skater Tara Lipinski  � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.20.10 � "There are two kinds of football coaches. The kind that have just been fired and the kind that are going to get fired." � Bum Phillips, professional football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.19.10 � "Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers." � Merle Kessler, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.18.10 � "Baseball is pieces of minutiae that need belaboring." � Bill Sheft, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.17.10 � "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 11.16.10 � "I see great things in baseball. It is our game. The American game. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us." � Walt Whitman, poet � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.15.10 � "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." � Jacques Barzun, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.14.10 � "The Yankees are baseball." � Joe Torre, baseball player and manager � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.13.10 � "Baseball is a worrying thing." � Stan Coveleshi, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.12.10 � "Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel. Not just to be as good as everyone else, but to be better. This is the nature of man, and this is the name of the game." � Ted Williams, baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.11.10 � "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." � Jim Bouton, baseball player and writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.10.10 � "Mexican baseball is exactly like American baseball, except for the extraneous embellishments. They work the hit and run and turn the double-play ball, but they don't sell the hot dog." � Peter Golenboch, sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.09.10 � "Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room checked first for a gun. You couldn't take chances with some of those birds." � Casey Stengel, baseball manager � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.08.10 � "I don't understand what kind of #### radio that can be if you can't get a score of a ball game on it." � Harry Caray, broadcaster, to a taxi driver who only had a dispatch radio in his cab � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.07.10 � "Good to meet you. A writer, huh? What paper you with Ernie?" � Yogi Berra, baseball player, upon being introduced to Ernest Hemingway � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.06.10 � "Games lubricate the body and the mind." � Benjamin Franklin, United States patriot, Founding Father and inventor � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.05.10 � "Everything in a game happens by chance, so what you're doing is trying to make your own breaks." � Nate Allen, football player, on luck � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.04.10 � "Half the time the scouts have their heads down making notes and don't even see which way the ball is hit." � Tom Greenwade, baseball scout � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.03.10 � "Talent is God-given, be humble; fame is man-given, be thankful; conceit is self-given, be careful." � Anonymous (quoted often by basketball coach John Wooden) � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.02.10 � "It's not the fact that men love football that makes modern woman want to scream ... It's the assumption that she is incapable of loving it, too." � Sally Jenkins, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.01.10 � "Baby, no one sends in plays for Francis." � Fran Tarkenton, quarterback, when asked who called his team's plays � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

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