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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.]
