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Posted 05.31.12 �
"That boy is too clumsy and too slow." � Branch
Rickey, baseball executive, on then-unknown
prospect Yogi Berra, baseball catcher [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.30.12 �
"Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a
business, and too much of a business to be
called a sport." � Phillip K. Wrigley, baseball
team owner [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.29.12 �
"I don't need to be practicing, I'm leading this
tournament. You guys go on and practice, because
you're behind." � Lee Trevino, golfer, to his
competitors after he had a good first round [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.28.12 �
"When the astronauts walked on the moon, I
figured we had a chance to win. Nothing seemed
impossible after that." � Tug McGraw,
professional baseball player, describing the
World Series championship season of the 'Miracle
Mets' of 1969 [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.27.12 �
"The two most important things to athletes:
playing time and money." � John Paxson,
professional basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.26.12 �
"We think TV exposure is so important to our
program and so important to this university that
we will schedule ourselves to fit the medium.
I'll play at midnight if that's what TV wants."
� Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.25.12 �
"There's nothing worse than a sorry, pitiful,
whining teammate." � Charles Barkley, basketball
player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.24.12 �
"I think I'll take another bite of my coffee." �
Frank Gifford, football player and broadcaster,
while doing color commentary for the 1967 NFL
Championship Game at Lambeau Field between the
Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys. The
temperature at kickoff was minus 15 degrees, the
wind chill was minus 48 degrees and conditions
worsened as the playing field fell into the
shadow of the stadium. The game became known as
the Ice Bowl. [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.23.12 �
"If the on-deck batter is standing too close to
home plate, you brush him back." � Brent Kemnitz,
Wichita State baseball coach, who was suspended
for the remainder of the season after one of his
pitchers ended the career of an on-deck batter
with a beanball [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.22.12 �
"In ancient Rome, citizens befuddled by the
complexities of the waning empire found in
battles waged by the gladiators precisely the
simplistic relief from the government problems
of their day." � James Michener, author [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.21.12 �
"You would have to take a stun gun or whatever
and shoot him to get him off that court. He's
going to leave it all out there." � Jeff Van
Gundy, basketball coach, on Patrick Ewing,
basketball player, who played an entire NBA game
with a torn Achilles tendon and led his team to
a win [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.20.12 �
"The reasons I was playing the game have always
been the same. The game was all I cared about;
it never felt like a job." � Dennis Rodman,
basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.19.12 �
"It's in the mindset of the players and managers
to cheat whenever they get a chance. They
believe it is the equivalent of their First
Amendment right to cheat." � Durwood Merrill,
baseball umpire [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.18.12 �
"The way to make coaches think you're in shape
in the spring is to get a tan." � Whitey Ford,
baseball player, on spring training [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.17.12 �
"If you're a gymnast, something is always
hurting, but you still train. You just have to
learn to live with discomfort." � Mary Lou
Retton, Olympic gold medalist [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.16.12 �
"I believe in leadership. And I definitely
believe I am a leader. But I believe I lead by
example." � Mike Piazza, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.15.12 �
"That (home run) ball got out of here in a
hurry. Anything going that fast better have a
damn stewardess on it � don't you think?" �
Kevin Costner, actor, in the movie Bull
Durham [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.14.12 �
"Bob Knight is unique. In another time, he would
have been a superb general. ... He may well be
the last of the coaching dictators." � Al
McGuire, basketball coach and broadcaster, on
Bobby Knight, basketball coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.13.12 �
"I was a very late draft choice of the
Mittendorf Funeral Home Panthers. Our color was
black." � George Will, political commentator and
baseball aficionado, about his Little League
draft [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.12.12 �
"I have the job I want. I am not looking for a
job. What I'm looking for is a tall player that
can play." � Mike Jarvis, basketball coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.11.12 �
"He'd knock you down just for having bad
breath." � Joe Garagiola, baseball player and
broadcaster, on Bob Gibson, pitcher [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.10.12 �
"Winning is like shaving. You do it every day,
or you end up looking like a bum." � Jack Kemp,
football player and U.S. Congressman [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.09.12 �
"The Joe Namaths of the world are meaningless.
They come and go, fleeting figures of passing
glamour. You'll find them in the sports tomes
but not in the history books." � Howard Cosell,
broadcaster, citing Joe Namath, football player,
as an example of those athletes about whom
Cosell contended the media and the public become
temporarily obsessed [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.08.12 �
"Whatever else I do, I want to always be a kind
of ambassador, a preacher for bodybuilding." �
Arnold Schwarzenegger, champion bodybuilder,
actor and California Governor [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.07.12 �
"Most coaches hate preventable mistakes as much
as I did. Somebody asked Don Shula if it was a
waste of time to correct a small flaw. 'What's a
small flaw?' Don wanted to know." � John Madden,
football coach and broadcaster, on attention to
detail as exemplified by Don Shula, football
coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.06.12 �
"When I play lacrosse it makes me feel like I am
playing the game with all of my ancestors. It
also makes me proud that it was our people who
gave lacrosse to the world. For those reasons,
lacrosse is more than just a game." � Irving
Powless Jr., Chief, Onondaga Nation [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.05.12 �
"I awoke to strangely mixed feelings of
discomfort and anticipation ... Suddenly my mind
cleared, and I remembered that this was the most
important day of all, for it was our turn to
start on the long slow upward grind that might,
with luck, end on the summit of Everest." � Sir
Edmund Hillary, mountain climber, recalling the
climactic day on which he would become the first
man to reach the top of Mount Everest [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.04.12 �
"Leaders have a different look from followers.
They get it sometime while being potty-trained
or tumbling around a kindergarten playroom. ...
People who don't get it early never do." �
Harvey Manning, mountain climber [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.03.12 �
"Medicine is just about life and death. Sports
is more important than that." � Andrew Edgar,
philosopher [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.02.12 �
"The solution to any problem � work, love,
money, whatever � is to go fishing, and the
worse the problem, the longer the trip should
be." � John Gierach, fisherman and writer [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 05.01.12 �
"As a reflection of American life, the most
popular sport in America is professional
football: brutal, precise, competitive and
highly standardized. In football, as in much of
American society, the competitor is 'The Enemy,'
and the all-consuming passion is to win, often,
at any cost." � Dr. Ross Thomas Runfola,
sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
