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Posted 07.31.11 �
"I learned that if you want to make it bad
enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make
it." � Gale Sayers, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.30.11 �
"My job is to win football games. I've got to
put people in the stadium, make money for the
university, keep the alumni happy, and give the
school a winning reputation. If I don't win, I'm
gone." � Frank Kush, college football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.29.11 �
"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 07.28.11 �
"What you had was a 39-year-old male, 6-foot-5,
in excess of 300 pounds, a healthy individual,
took one shot of heroin and basically dropped
dead as a result." � Bruce Glassrock, Plano, TX,
police chief, on the death of football player
Mark Tuinei [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.27.11 �
"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 07.26.11 �
"Man is a ball tossed onto the field of
existence, driven hither and thither by the
chaugan stick of destiny, wielded by the hand of
Providence." � Persian proverb [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.25.11 �
"Football is not a game, but a religion, a
metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a
highly verbalized, disguised society, a
throwback of 30,000 generations of
anthropological time." � Dr. Arnold Mandell,
sports psychologist [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.24.11 �
"You can win and still not succeed, still not
achieve what you should. And you can lose
without really failing at all." � Bobby Knight,
basketball coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.23.11 �
"Sports has expanded the boundaries of bad
behavior and violence." � Robert Lipsyte, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.22.11 �
"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 07.21.11 �
"OK, so we don't intend to win this year, maybe
not even next year. It's the future we're
concerned with." � Chuck Knox, professional
football coach, after trading away four star
players [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.20.11 �
"No, we ain't gonna play that. We're gonna kick
their butts." � Lee Roy Jordan, football player,
waving off a defense called in from the
sidelines [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.19.11 �
"Leadership is getting people to do something
they shouldn't be able to do." � Al Roberts,
college football player [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.18.11 �
"Any time your defense gives up more points than
a basketball team, you're in trouble." � Lou
Holtz, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.17.11 �
"What you're thinking, what shape your mind is
in, is what makes the biggest difference of
all." � Willie Mays, baseball player, on
confidence [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.16.11 �
"This series is fixed. You can have it � I'm
going to the race track." � Champ Pickens, event
promoter, on what became known as the 'Black Sox
Scandal' associated with the Chicago White Sox'
loss of the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati
Reds [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.15.11 �
"I wouldn't throw at her, but I might brush her
back." � Johnny Allen, pitcher, on baseball
player Doc Cramer's contention that Allen would
throw at his mother [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.14.11 �
"I was never a rah-rah guy. I was never one of
those guys that went around and rah-rahed...
Rah-rah don't get it done." � Sparky Anderson,
baseball player and manager [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.13.11 �
"Well, I don't think he'd enforce a rigorous
curfew." � George Will, political commentator
and baseball aficionado, when asked by TV
interviewer Roy Firestone what kind of baseball
manager U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy would be [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.12.11 �
"On this team we are all united in a common
goal: to keep my job." � Lou Holtz, football
coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.11.11 �
"The sportswriter whose horizons are no wider
than the outfield fences is a bad sportswriter."
� Red Smith, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.10.11 �
"The greatest accolade is silence." � Dolly
Stark, basketball referee, on officiating [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.09.11 �
"The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a
strong body, a good right arm and a weak mind."
� Dizzy Dean, baseball player and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.08.11 �
"I never understood the value to your broadcasts
because I never got to listen, but I've got to
tell you that the one thing that keeps me going
is hearing your broadcast." � Lou Gehrig,
baseball player, to Mel Allen, broadcaster,
after Gehrig contracted ALS and retired from
baseball [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.07.11 �
"If you're losing sleep and you have a knot in
your stomach, that means you're probably doing
your job." � Bill Walsh, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.06.11 �
"We Americans are a competitive race. We bet on
anything. We love to win." � George S. Patton,
U.S. Army General [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.05.11 �
"We ought to pay attention to the world of
professional sports. What happens at the elite
levels makes its way into our culture." � Lucy
Danziger, magazine editor [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.04.11 �
"Once a player becomes bigger than the team, you
no longer have a team." � Red Auerbach,
basketball coach and team executive [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.03.11 �
"No athletic director holds office longer than
two unsuccessful football coaches." � Bob Zuppke,
college football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.02.11 �
"Sport is a right of the people." � Fidel
Castro, communist dictator of Cuba [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
Posted 07.01.11 �
"I'm not much of a golfer. I don't have any
friends. And, all I like to do the day of a game
is go home and be alone and worry about ways not
to lose." � Paul 'Bear' Bryant, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary
of Sports Quotations.]
