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Posted 04.30.12
"That boy in there has a lawyer with him
and he doesn't need one." Unidentified NBA
executive, on negotiations with then-rookie Bill
Bradley, Rhodes Scholar and future U.S. senator [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.29.12
"Ebbets Field was where one learned to duck a
punch and get along with a lot of different
people." Tony LoBianco, actor, on the former
Major League Baseball park that was the home of
the Brooklyn Dodgers [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.28.12
"When you step on that field, you cannot concede
a thing." Gale Sayers, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.27.12
"Due to its ingredients ... courage, mental and
physical condition, spirit, and its terrific
body contact which tends to sort the men from
the boys ... football remains one of the great
games of all time." Grantland Rice,
sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.26.12
"Don't get sand kicked in your face." Charles
Atlas, also known as Angelo Siciliano,
bodybuilder, from an advertisement for his
bodybuilding regimens [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.25.12
"Rushing the passer is grueling work. It
requires a great outlay of speed, strength,
energy and determination. A man must drive
himself if he is going to break through on every
pass play." Stanley Woodward, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.24.12
"We're basically a save-the-whales team; we
can't turn down big people who can play."
George Young, NFL team executive [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.23.12
"How many other times a year do you get to see
dogs with better haircuts than their owners?"
Linda Stasi, journalist, writing about dog shows [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.22.12
"That last one sounded kind of high to me."
Babe Ruth, baseball player, questioning the
umpire about three fast pitches that he had not
seen [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.21.12
"Nothing." Ted Williams, baseball player, when
asked what he was thinking about when he hit a
home run during his last
at-bat [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.20.12
"Vince fears high winds make every forward pass
a gamble. To Vincent T. Lombardi, gambling on a
football field is a crime against nature." Red
Smith, sportswriter, on Vince Lombardi, football
coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.19.12
"He thinks when I was born I was already 60
years old and had a wooden leg and came here to
manage." Casey Stengel, baseball manager,
on Mickey Mantle, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.18.12
"I teach them how to grab the guy's shirt and
step on their toes." Bob Zawoluk, basketball
coach, on one aspect of instructing his players [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.17.12
"Losing is no disgrace if you've given your
best." Jim Palmer, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.16.12
"Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the
most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when
carried to the extreme." Alfred Shrubb, runner [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.15.12
"Monday Night Football." Camille Paglia,
feminist writer, when asked what was her
favorite television show [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.14.12
"These are the saddest words Tinker to Evers
to Chance. Picking forever our gonfalon bubble,
Causing a Giant to hit into a double, Words that
are heavy with nothing but trouble, Tinker to
Evers to Chance." Franklin Pierce Adams,
sportswriter and New York Giants fan, describing
with a poem the Chicago Cubs' famous double-play
combination of shortstop Joe Tinker, second
baseman Johnny Evers and first baseman Frank
Chance [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.13.12
"For years, coaches would not allow athletes to
lift weights because it made them look
muscle-bound. Now weight training is a main part
of almost any team's training program." Lou
Ferrigno, bodybuilder, football player and actor [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.
Posted 04.12.12
"People talk about skating, puck handling and
shooting, but the whole sport [hockey] is angles
and caroms, forgetting the straight direction
the puck is going, calculating where it will be
diverted, factoring in all the interruptions."
Wayne Gretzky, hockey player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.11.12
"It's a lot harder to be a football coach than a
President. You've got four years as President,
and they guard you. A coach doesn't have anyone
to protect him when things go wrong." Harry
Truman, U.S. President [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.10.12
"It's the kind of place where you can be a
successful neurosurgeon but, if you were a lousy
football player, people still look at you
funny." Geno DeMarco, Geneva College football
coach, on the school's fans [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.09.12
"I can sympathize with Canadians whose noses are
out of joint. How would Americans feel if the
baseball commissioner was Japanese?" Bob
McKenzie, columnist, writing about the
Americanization of hockey, which Canadians feel
is their national sport [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.08.12
"Every player who is sitting here who lifted up
the Cup for the first time will tell you the
same thing. There's no feeling like lifting up
the Stanley Cup." Wayne Gretzky, hockey player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.07.12
"He who lives by the cheap shot dies by the
cross-check." Stan Fischler, hockey
commentator and historian [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.06.12
"The Edmonton Oilers without Wayne Gretzky is
like Wheel of Fortune without Vanna White."
Attributed by Joel Stein, sportswriter, to
Nelson Riis, Canadian New Democratic Party House
Leader [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.05.12
"There's a love of the game in this city that is
very difficult to put into words. You start off
when you're very young and you never get it out
of your system. You might get married to a
woman, but basketball is still your first love."
Willie Hall, street basketball player, Harlem [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.04.12
"A team is as skittish as a herd of animals
like gazelles and a wrong word or decision can
rile them up so they never can really be set
straight again." George Plimpton, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.03.12
"There's only a little margin between winning
and losing. A lot of luck is involved. It's hard
to get too excited when you know that you could
have lost as easily as you won." Doug Atkins,
football player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.02.12
"The more you lose, the more positive you have
to become. When you're winning, you can ride
them harder because their self-esteem is high.
If you are losing and you try to be tough,
you're asking for dissension." Rick Pitino,
basketball coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 04.01.12
"The casualty rate is three or four times higher
than any other sport. Last year, we had nine
deaths, quite a few broken backs, and quite a
few paralyzed." Eddie Arroyo, jockey, on the
sport of horse racing [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
