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Posted 01.31.13 �
"There is a certain
fascination about boat building, in watching
a boat gradually take shape, and this
particularly so when the results are your
own efforts." � Edwin Monk, sailor, boat
builder and writer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.30.13 �
"The lowly skiff might well
be called the universal boat." � Edwin Monk,
sailor, boat builder and writer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.29.13 �
"Sailing people who live in
houses often envy those who live on boats.
But those who dwell afloat all year round
miss one great thing: the annual pleasure of
throwing off a land-based existence in
exchange (however briefly) for a seagoing
life that will rock them with different
demand and buoy them up with different
delights." � Anthony Bailey, sailor and
writer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.28.13 �
"Men who own the biggest
boats are always thinking about records." �
Roger Vaughn, sailor and writer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.27.13 �
"I ought to desist from
crusty sailing man's thoughts about
'stinkpots.' I should try and see such craft
not as gas-guzzling noisemakers but as
potential nice guys who someday may pull me
off a shoal to tow me into harbor when my
mast falls down." � Anthony Bailey, sailor
and writer, on motorboats [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.26.13 �
"It has a picture of a tomato
on the front, a mean, vicious tomato with
blood running from its fangs. It has green
vines for hands and they are wrapped around
the lighthouse at Cape Hatteras." � Hans
Meijer, sailor, who had had bad luck sailing
off of Cape Hatteras [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.25.13 �
"Her maker had warned me that
he would not warrant her for an hour. 'She may
go to pieces like an eggshell,' he said. He
builded better than he know." � George W. Sears,
outdoorsman and journalist, about the Sairy
Camp, a canoe built by J. Henry Rushton that
traveled thousands of miles in the Adirondacks
[The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.24.13 �
"Health, south wind, books,
old trees, a boat, a friend." � Ralph Waldo
Emerson, writer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.23.13 �
"Good-bye, old girl. God only
knows when I shall tread your decks again." �
Ben Butler, sailor, politician and entrepreneur,
speaking to America, the racing yacht for
which the America's Cup is named [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.22.13 �
"For a vessel to sail easily,
steadily and rapidly, the displacement of
water must be nearly uniform along her
lines." � George Steers, yacht architect and
builder of America, the racing yacht
for which the America's Cup is named [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.21.13 �
"Every well-built canoe,
yacht or ship has some individuality, some
peculiar trait of its own." � George W.
Sears, outdoorsman and journalist [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.20.13 �
"Big sea, little boat, out to
sea I go." � Molly Mulhern Gross, outdoorswoman
and journalist [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.19.13 �
"A small sailing craft is not
only beautiful, it is seductive and full of
strange promise and a hint of trouble." � E.B.
White, writer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.18.13 �
"A boat is a boat, I guess � nothing more
than boards and paint and memories. Boards and
paint are destined to rot away, but memories are
priceless with age." � Larry Dablemont, writer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.17.13 �
"I thought is was a
no-brainer." � Chuck Knoblauch, baseball player,
who, instead of fielding a ground ball, allowed
the winning run to score in a playoff game while
arguing with an umpire about an infraction by a
base runner [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.16.13 �
"The secret is watching the
center and going with the snap." � Nate Allen,
football player, on blocking punts and field
goals [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.15.13 �
"Somewhere in the player's contract, maybe
in the fine print, it says, 'You're supposed to
block.' " � John McKay, football coach [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.14.13 �
"One time at Chattanooga, I
hit a real pretty tee shot to the green, and
danged if my ball didn't hit a bobwhite in the
air and knock it dead. My ball stopped about a
foot from the cup and I tapped it in. Only time
I ever made two birdies in one hole." � Sam
Snead, golfer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.13.13 �
"I deny the allegations by
Bob Hope that during my last game I hit an
eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose." � Gerald
Ford, U.S. President [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.12.13 �
"He will take your heart out,
stomp on it, and walk off the court with a sly
grin on his face. He won't stop until he whips
your ass!" � Pat Riley, basketball player and
coach, on Larry Bird, basketball player, to his
team before an NBA finals game with Bird's team
[The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.11.13 �
"He can dominate a game without even taking
a shot. He is truly a guy who can make other
players better." � Ervin 'Magic' Johnson,
basketball player, on Larry Bird, basketball
player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.10.13 �
"He will cut your heart out
to win." � Matt Guokas, basketball coach, on
Larry Bird, basketball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.09.13 �
"Bird was one of the few
white guys who could play what people call the
'Black Game.' " � Dennis Rodman, basketball
player, on Larry Bird, basketball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.08.13 �
"That boy is too clumsy and
too slow." � Branch Rickey, baseball executive,
on then-unknown baseball prospect Yogi Berra [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.07.13 �
"He talks okay up there with
a bat in his hands. A college education don't do
you no good up there." � Casey Stengel, baseball
manager, on Yogi Berra, baseball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.06.13 �
"Boris is the kid who, if you
tell him not to put his hand in the fire
because it's hot, he'll stick his hand right in
the fire." � Ian Tiriac, tennis coach, on Boris
Becker, tennis player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.05.13 �
"You're on thin ice. We
better win soon or you'll be gone." � Derek
Jeter and some of his teammates to their
baseball team's batboy during a losing streak,
ribbing him that he was bad luck [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.04.13 �
"Butch was here before you
came, and Butch will be here after you're gone."
� Mort Cooper, baseball player, to an
unidentified rookie who was needlessly
criticizing St. Louis Cardinals batboy Butch
Yatkeman [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.03.13 �
"You smell yourself if you've
been playing ... in the cluster of men lounging
around the bench in the middle of the court's
open side. Mostly players around the bench, men
who've just finished playing the last game of
the evening, each one relaxing in his own funk,
cooling out, talking the game, beginning to turn
it into stories." � John Edgar Wideman,
basketball player and novelist, from
Philadelphia Fire [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.02.13 �
"You play against other great
players and see if you can make things you see
out there part of your game. If a new wrinkle
works, you use it. A basketball player's game is
always under reconstruction." � Ray Haskins,
college basketball coach [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 01.01.13 �
"You know what you learn in
the NBA? You learn how to play basketball.
That's it. The only other thing I learned in my
career with the Celtics was how to follow tall
men through airports." � Kevin McHale,
basketball player and executive [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
