Posted 02.28.14 � "Using one is disrespectful to other players. Any time you get a chance to talk, you should be talking to other players about baseball." � James Baldwin, baseball player, about the banning of cell phones in the Chicago White Sox clubhouse [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.27.14 � "Well, I don't think he'd enforce a rigorous curfew." � George Will, political columnist and baseball aficionado, to Roy Firestone, television interviewer, on what kind of baseball manager Ted Kennedy, U.S. senator, would be [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.26.14 � "Talent is God-given, be humble; fame is man-given, be thankful; conceit is self-given, be careful." � Anonymous, quoted often by basketball coach John Wooden [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.25.14 � "We are here for the purpose to win for the fans. That is who we work for." � Roberto Clemente, baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.24.14 � "Whenever you draft, your chances of being wrong are much greater than being right. Every time you take a player, you leave behind 600 or so others, and chances are that some of them will turn out to be better than the guy you took. No matter how you slice it, the numbers are against you." � Bill Tobin, team executive, on the challenge of deciding on NFL draft picks [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.23.14 � "In pro football the college draft is what makes good teams great, as the youngsters imbue a team with their youth and enthusiasm, pushing the veterans to play harder, and sometimes pushing them out." � Peter Golenboch, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.22.14 � "Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved." � Red Smith, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.21.14 � "A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop, and sometimes a lot of unprintable things. But no team gets very far without one." � Miller Huggins, baseball manager [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.20.14 � "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 02.19.14 � "I knew he would have killed me if he caught me." � Cale Yarborough, race car driver, about Little Joe Weatherly, after Yarborough put a live, defanged rattlesnake in Weatherly's lap while he was getting ready to race [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.18.14 � "Scottsdale Community College teams are called 'The Fighting Artichokes.' That smarty pants name, like the cheerleader in an artichoke costume, is drollery intended to de-emphasize athletics." � George Will, political commentator and baseball aficionado [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.17.14 � "Mickey Mantle had those dual qualities so seldom seen, exuding dynamism and excitement but at the same time touching your heart � flawed, wounded. We knew that there was something poignant about Mickey Mantle before we knew what poignant meant." � Bob Costas, broadcaster, on baseball player Mickey Mantle [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.16.14 � "It's been a good 'un." � Don Meredith, football player and broadcaster, to a fellow passenger when it was thought their flight was going to crash [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.15.14 � "A man never gets to this station in life without being helped, aided, shoved and prodded to do better. I want to be honest with you; the players I played with and the coaches I had ... they are directly responsible for my being here." � Johnny Unitas, football player, on the occasion of his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.14.14 � "Rock used to load us down with extra-heavy practice gear. On Saturday, when we climbed into game suits, we felt like four Lady Godivas. Actually we were four pounds lighter on Saturday than on weekdays." � Elmer Layden, college football player, one of the Four Horsemen, commenting on Knute Rockne, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.13.14 � "Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport." � Vince Lombardi, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.12.14 � "I jumped and skipped around the bases like I was half nuts. Gee whiz, I kept saying, gee whiz! I guess you could call me an 'accidental hero.' " � Bobby Thompson, baseball player, who hit the 'Home Run Heard Round the World' that gave the New York Giants the 1951 National League pennant over the Brooklyn Dodgers [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.11.14 � "In his time, George Herman Ruth was a holy sinner. He was a man of measureless lust, selfishness and appetites, but he was also a man undyingly faithful, in a manner, to both his public and his game." � Roger Kahn, sportswriter, on baseball player Babe Ruth [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.10.14 � "No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul." � Bruce McCall, writer, on golf [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.09.14 � "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, Police Chief of Plano, TX, on the death of Mark Tuinei, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.08.14 � "Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70s, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified." � George Vecsey, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.07.14 � "When you think about it, you've probably spent more time with umpires than you spent with your wife." � Richie Ashburn, broadcaster and baseball player, to Tim McCarver, broadcaster and baseball catcher [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.06.14 � "Mother, when I get a telephone call from a beautiful girl like Miss Margaret Foot, I must leave at once � remember, Mother, never let a pitch hang." � Tiny Tim, musician and sports fan [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.05.14 � "The difference between sports and ballet is that in sports you root for somebody. Nobody yells at one of the ballerinas, 'Break a bleepin' leg, ya bum.' " � Mike Littwin, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.04.14 � "I'd walk into the owner's office to talk contract and I'd say, 'Hi ya, partner.' " � Joe DiMaggio, baseball player, when asked what he might be worth in today's free agent market [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.03.14 � "There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both." � James Reston, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.02.14 � "Every championship, by definition, is historic." � George Vecsey, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 02.01.14 � "I find that prayers work best when you have big players." � Knute Rockne, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]