Posted 04.30.13 — "One of the joys of baseball is the comfort of seeing a familiar face in the booth, and the smugness of feeling superior to that guy." — Bill Scheft, writer, on baseball play-by-play announcers [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.29.13 — "Like Odysseus at sea, I was drawn by a voice, and I sail in the direction of that voice. In other words, I go with Tim McCarver." — Bill Scheft, writer, on Tim McCarver, baseball player and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.28.13 — "Well, you know what they say. The opera is generally not finished until the large woman begins singing." — Misquote of Jack Nicklaus, golfer, at the 1984 British Open, in a statement released by British Open officials [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.27.13 — "He dislikes flamboyance, and unlike some of basketball's greatest stars, has apparently never made a move to attract attention. While some players are eccentric in their shooting, his shots, with only occasional exceptions, are straightforward and unexaggerated." — John McFee, writer, on Bill Bradley, basketball player and U.S. senator [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.26.13 — "They are the time-killers, the guys fighting as you come down the aisle to your seat. They are only half seen in their small moments of triumph, and their disgraces are vaguely remembered, like a joke told very late at night when everyone is drunk." — Jimmy Cannon, sportswriter, on the boxers in preliminary matches before the main event [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.25.13 — "There is a quality about boxing that attached to no other sport. Well, maybe not boxing; maybe the men who fight, rather than the science itself. They are the most interesting of all athletes, for they seem to have the deepest feelings about life." — Howard Cosell, broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.24.13 — "Sorry? Are you kidding? Boxers are never sorry." — Carmen Basilio, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.23.13 — "A fight, a piece of writing, a painting or a passage of music is nothing without emotion." — W.C. Heinz, sportswriter, to Floyd Patterson, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.22.13 — "The English scribes were rather indelicate in their descriptions of the contest, implying that both fights were as rehearsed as a Shakespearean play." — Jack Sher, writer, on two boxing matches between Primo Carnera and Young Stribling [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.21.13 — "Boxing has been infested with corruption and gangsterism from 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 04.20.13 — "The bigger they come, the harder they fall." — Bob Fitzsimmons, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.19.13 — "Only in boxing do you have that ritual, of two men, nearly naked, exhausted, the smell and taste of each other, after such serious battering, the strange intimacy of that." — Gay Talese, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.18.13 — "No dentist ever advised his patient to have his teeth removed by force. So you're not allowed to go into the ring without a mouthpiece. Of course, you become toothless without a mouthpiece, but you usually lose them one at a time." — Jimmy Cannon, sportswriter, on boxing [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.17.13 — "Nobody's marketing minivans to boxing moms, not yet, but it does seem that the sport has become a little more suburban than we remember it." — Richard Hoffer, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.16.13 — "My toughest fight was with my first wife." — Muhammad Ali, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.15.13 — "Man, this is a fight, not a rumble." — Evander Holyfield, boxer, to Mike Tyson, boxer, after Tyson bit off part of Holyfield's ear [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.14.13 — "Looking at a fighter who can't punch is like kissing your mother-in-law." Jack Hurly, boxing promoter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.13.13 — "I zigged when I should have zagged." — Jack Ropes, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.12.13 — "I wanted to hit him one more time in the nose so that bone could go right up into his brain." — Mike Tyson, boxer, on his fight with Jesse Ferguson [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.11.13 — "It's more important to be a fighter than a sideshow." — Lou DiBella, HBO boxing promoter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.10.13 — "It's a terrible sport, but it's a sport ... the fight for survival is the fight." — Rocky Graziano, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.09.13 — "Hurting people is my business." — Sugar Ray Robinson, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.08.13 — "Honey, I forgot to duck." — Jack Dempsey, boxer, to his wife, after losing to Gene Tunney [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.07.13 — "He hits you in the belly and it's like someone stuck you with a hot poker, and left it there." — Billy Soose, boxer, about Tony Zale, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.06.13 — "The heavyweight championship is, after all, a fairly squalid office." — Murray Kempton, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.05.13 — "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 04.04.13 — "I'll moider da bum." — Tony Galento, boxer, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.03.13 — "I just knocked him down and that ended the boxing for the night." — Hugh Casey, baseball player, about Ernest Hemingway, author and sportsman, after a sparring match [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.02.13 — "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." — Muhammad Ali, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 04.01.13 — "Fighting is the only racket where you're almost guaranteed to end up as a bum." — Rocky Graziano, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]