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Posted 02.29.12 �
"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 really believe 100%."
� Arnold Schwarzenegger, bodybuilder, actor and
politician [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.28.12 �
"Ruth must have admired records because he
created so many of them." � Red Smith,
sportswriter, on baseball player Babe Ruth [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.27.12 �
"Listen, if you start worrying about the people
in the stands, before too long you're up in the
stands with them." � Tommy Lasorda, baseball
manager [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.26.12 �
"I wish to hell I'd never said the damn thing. I
meant the effort. ... I meant having a goal. I
sure as hell didn't mean for people to crush
human values and morality." � Vince Lombardi,
football coach, on his famous quote: "Winning
isn't everything, it's the only thing." [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.25.12 �
"Boxing has been infested with corruption and
gangsterism since the day it began, yet it
engages our basic emotions like no other
athletic activity." � Howard Cosell, broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.24.12 �
"In all my years of watching football I can
honestly say that I have never once confused
football with ballet." � Joan Tisch, wife of
team owner Bob Tisch [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.23.12 �
"If someone wants to get an edge on me, they'll
have to search for the cracks themselves. They
will have to find that advantage themselves. I'm
not going to give it to them." � Chuck Knox,
football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.22.12 �
"Some kids dream of joining the circus, others
of becoming a major league baseball player. I
have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New
York Yankees, I have gotten to do both." � Graig
Nettles, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.21.12 �
"The difference between sports and ballet is
that in sports you root for somebody. Nobody
yells at one of the ballerinas, 'Break a bleepin'
leg, ya bum.' " � Mike Littwin, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.20.12 �
"Baseball is so ingrained in Cuba that it has
thrived as the 'national sport' through 40 years
of bitterly anti-American revolution." � Roberto
Gonzalez Echevarria, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.19.12 �
"There are two things that made golf appealing
to the average man... Arnold Palmer and the
invention of the mulligan." � Bob Hope, actor,
comedian and golfer [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.18.12 �
"You're blind! You're a crook! You're robbing
me!" � Walter Matthau, actor, to the different
umpires and referees who appeared on as many as
15 television sets in his home during his many
gambling binges [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.17.12 �
"No matter how long you have been playing, you
still get butterflies before the big ones." �
Pee Wee Reese, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.16.12 �
"Even though I think I'm mature on the football
field, I'm still a kid. If there's a good play,
I'll jump up and down on the sidelines." � Gary
Parris, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.15.12 �
"There is only a half step difference between
the champions and those who finish on the
bottom. And much of that half step is mental." �
Tom Landry, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.14.12 �
"I have got to make it here. I just can't go
back to Louisiana and Arkansas. I've been there
and I know what's there." � Lou Brock, baseball
player, about making the major leagues [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.13.12 �
"Leadership is a matter of having people look at
you and gain confidence, seeing how you react.
If you're in control, they're in control." � Tom
Landry, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.12.12 �
"It's in the mindset of players and managers to
cheat whenever they get a chance. They believe
it is the equivalent of their First Amendment
right in baseball to cheat." � Durwood Merrill,
umpire [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.11.12 �
"Baseball is an 1890 game. It's a peaceful
afternoon in the country. What baseball needs to
compete is more violence." � Bill Veeck,
baseball team owner and racetrack operator [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.10.12 �
"Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights for
real?' And I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in
more of them.'" � Wayne Gretzky, hockey player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.09.12 �
"The first thing you learn is never to learn
their names until the last cut is made. 'Cause
you feel bad when they get cut." � Eddie LeBaron,
football player, referring to rookies in NFL
training camp [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.08.12 �
"As a traveling sportswriter, Death has been a
constant companion on the road. This can be
vexing, especially when Death gets the aisle
seat on airplanes." � Steve Rushin, Sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.07.12 �
"After eight years in the NFL, I'm convinced
that the only thing that separates chumps from
champions is the individual's competitive
drive." � Joe Montana, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.06.12 �
"We didn't care if the team moved here from
Hartford, we don't care if they win or lose
while they're here, and we don't care when or
where they'll go if they pack up and leave." �
Dennis Rogers, North Carolina newspaper
columnist, on the Hartford Whalers hockey team's
move to Raleigh, where they were renamed the
Carolina Hurricanes [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.05.12 �
"Each is the last to learn from fate, That his
story is finished � and out of date." �
Grantland Rice, sportswriter, on the reluctance
of athletes to accept the inevitability of
retirement [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.04.12 �
"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 and player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.03.12 �
"The hardest thing about prize fighting is
picking up your teeth with a boxing glove on." �
Kin Hubbard, humorist and author [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.02.12 �
"This community doesn't want academic
excellence. It wants a gladiatorial spectacle on
a Friday night." � Dorothy Fowler, Odessa, TX,
high school teacher, on high school football [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 02.01.12 �
"Why do I have to talk to these guys who make
$6,000 a year when I make $40,000 a year?" �
Yogi Berra, baseball player, on sportswriters [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
