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Posted 01.31.12
"He can take his'n and beat your'n, or he can
take your'n and beat his'n." Bum Phillips,
football coach, on Don Shula, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.30.12
"I don't look at football as a career. It's a
stepping stone. I know too many ballplayers who
were lost when opportunity didn't knock on their
door." Frenchy Fuqua, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.29.12
"Part of the charm of the Winter Olympics is
that ice skating and all the rest of those
Olympic sports completely disappear for four
years at a time." Dan Jenkins, writer and
author [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.28.12
"If the doctors had told me that I might die
playing football, I'd have asked them what the
chances were 'Give me the odds, Doc" that's
how much I wanted to play." Jack Youngblood,
football player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.27.12
"In wrestling you never see anybody get
seriously hurt. When was the last time you heard
of a wrestler who was out for the season with a
knee injury?" Darryl Dawkins, basketball
player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.26.12
"The ball goes through the net, the team gets
the two points. A player hardly ever scores by
himself." Ervin 'Magic' Johnson, basketball
player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.25.12
"As long as my pitchers throw strikes, I'll have
patience. But when they start walking people and
getting behind I don't need that." Lou Pinella, baseball manager [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.24.12
"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, hockey player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.23.12
"Medicine is just about life and death. Sports
is more important than that." Andrew Edgar,
philosopher [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.22.12
"I won't do it on Thursdays because I don't get
paid to do it on Thursdays." Alex Karras,
professional football player, on his practice
habits [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.21.12
"Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and
visible expression of the drive and push and
rush and struggle of the raging, tearing,
booming 19th century." Mark Twain, writer and
humorist [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.20.12
"Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a
very unorderly world. If you get three strikes,
even the best lawyer in the world can't get you
off." Bill Veeck, baseball team owner [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.19.12
"Well, this year I'm told that the team did well
because one pitcher had a fine curve ball. I
understand that a curve ball is thrown with a
deliberate attempt to deceive. Surely that is
not an ability we should want to foster at
Harvard." Charles William Eliot, Harvard
University President, 1869-1909, when asked why
he wished to drop baseball as a college sport [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.18.12
"I zigged when I should have zagged." Jack
Ropes, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.17.12
"Competitive sports teach and reaffirm for the
players all the positive values of life."
Harvey S. Wiener, writer and swimmer [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.16.12
"Astute, double-hearted, irresistible." Toni
Morrison, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, on
champion boxer Muhammad Ali [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.15.12
"Life in basketball has a lot of suffering in
it." Pat Riley, basketball player and coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.14.12
"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 believe 100 percent."
Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor, politician and
bodybuilder [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.13.12
"It's a lot easier hitting a quarterback than a
little white ball." Bubba Smith, football
player, on why he preferred football to golf [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.12.12
"How many successful people have you ever heard
say, 'I just make it up as I go along?' I can't
think of one." Mike Ditka, football player and
coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.11.12
"At three, four, five and even six years, the
childish nature will require sports; now is the
time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing
him, but not so as to disgrace him." Plato,
philosopher [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.10.12
"I guess I don't talk much, but I think a man
can set an example for his team by his actions
on the field." Harmon Killebrew, professional
baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.09.12
"You have to strap it on and go get them."
Roger Clemens, professional baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.08.12
"I don't want to be the best black golfer ever.
I want to be the best golfer ever." Tiger
Woods, professional golfer [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.07.12
"The Russians are no more professional than the
Americans, who give their athletes free college
educations." Avery Brundage, International
Olympic Committee president [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.06.12
"I'm going to become a ventriloquist. I'll get a
little football player and put him up on my
knee." Dan Dierdorf, football player, through
clinched teeth after his jaw had been broken [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.05.12
"Four set! ... uh, red, right ... uh, 22 ... Ah
... son-of-a-#####, time out." Don Meredith,
football player, during a televised game as the
quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.04.12
"Look like a winner and act like a champ all the
time. If you win, be gracious. Keep your head
on." James Francis (Jumbo) Elliott, track and
field coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.03.12
"I never let my social life interfere with my
athletic training. I set my standards early so
that I would never get wrapped up in that
manner." Mark Spitz, Olympic gold medalist
swimmer [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.02.12
"We couldn't make a basket, we couldn't rebound,
and we didn't play defense. You might say we put
it all together." Bill Fitch, basketball coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 01.01.12
"The only reason I played golf was so I could
afford to hunt and fish." Sam Snead, golfer [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]