Posted 01.31.14 — "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 01.30.14 — "Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded, accordion-style, back to full stature without any lasting side effect." — Steve Rushin, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.29.14 — "If a survey was taken, I think you'd find more injuries happen to a quarterback while standing in the pocket than by taking off with a ball." — Steve Grogan, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.28.14 — "I fought Sugar Ray [Robinson] six times; I only beat him once. This is my sixth marriage and I ain't won one yet, so I figure I'm due." — Jake Lamotta, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.27.14 — "Outlined against the blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are know as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden." — Grantland Rice, sportswriter, writing on Oct. 28, 1924, about the Notre Dame football starting backfield of quarterback Harry Stuhldreher, right halfback Don Miller, left halfback Jim Crowley and fullback Elmer Layden [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.26.14 — "If desire is what we want and dedication is the price we pay to get what we want, then determination is what keeps us there." — Dennis Green, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.25.14 — "I've got enough problems keeping myself under control without putting some [expletive deleted] in my body that's supposed to make me wild. I do alright on that without any help." — Dennis Rodman, basketball player, on shunning drugs [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.24.14 — "When a kid has given you the best he has to give, and you have to tell him it wasn't good enough, that's when you ache inside and think maybe there's a better way to make a living." — Vince Lombardi, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.23.14 — "Get your ass out of my office, Dr. Dayton. You've got ten minutes to clean your [expletive deleted] out of my locker room and ten more minutes to get off campus. I'll mail your last check." — Paul "Bear" Bryant, Texas A&M football coach, to Aggies head trainer Bill Dayton, whom Bryant decided was too protective of players [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.22.14 — "Why do I have to talk to these guys who make $6,000 a year when I make $40,000 a year?" — Yogi Berra, baseball player, coach and manager, referring to sportswriters [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.21.14 — "Something magical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas." — Dan Jenkins, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.20.14 — "You wonder why teams lose? That's a perfect example, if they can't recognize talent like that." — Fran Tarkington, football player, on Amad Rashad, who had been passed up in the NFL draft by three losing franchises [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.19.14 — "Nobody running at full speed has either a head or a body." — William Butler Yeats, poet [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.18.14 — "The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm and a weak mind." — Dizzy Dean, baseball pitcher and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.17.14 — "What's important is that kids discover that baseball is fun — and that it gets to be more fun as you get better at it." — Mickey Mantle, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.16.14 — "You win on Sunday, but you can't expect them to roll over for you next week. You've got to go out there next week and prove you're a winner again." — Sam Huff, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.15.14 — "I fought the wall, and the wall won." — Dmitri Young, baseball player, after dropping a fly ball when he ran into the outfield wall [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.14.14 — "Could I be a good coach and lose? To me, that's like asking if a guy can be a good doctor even though his patients keep dying." — Red Auerbach, basketball coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.13.14 — "Football is the quintessential American sport: lots of violence punctuated by committee meetings." — George Will, political analyst and baseball aficionado [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.12.14 — "It's like a gunfight: When you draw, you don't have time to look, only to react." — Bobby Hammond, football player, on returning punts and kickoffs [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.11.14 — "My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." — Hank Aaron, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.10.14 — "Football is unique and good. Where else in life do you see dedication and teamwork and spirit? People enjoy it because it is reassuring to them to see good things. — Woody Hayes, college football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.09.14 — "Every great hitter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. — Ty Cobb, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.08.14 — "I got into this business because I got tired of beating up people for free." — Larry Holmes, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.07.14 — "I don't like money, but it quiets my nerves." — Joe Louis, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.06.14 — "Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them." — Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.05.14 — "Ruth must have admired records because he created so many of them." — Red Smith, sportswriter, on Babe Ruth, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.04.14 — "God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own." — Ted Williams, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.03.14 — "Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away." — Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.02.14 — "When he didn't remember our anniversary, I knew he was OK." — Lisa McCaffrey, referring to a concussion suffered by her husband, Ed McCaffrey, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 01.01.14 — "He wants Texas back." — Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager, on contract negotiations with Mexican-born pitcher Fernando Valenzuela [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]