Posted 04.30.14 "All right, no
limping. If you have to limp, don't
scrimmage. If you want to scrimmage,
don't limp." Red Blaik,
football coach [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.29.14 "The hardest
part of losing is knowing you have
failed those who are depending on
you." Johnny Roach,
football player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.28.14 "One sign of a
hero is if you feel enhanced simply
when talking about him recounting
his feats, recalling a time when
your own little life was touched by
his." Roger Rosenblatt,
sportswriter [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.27.14 "Some days you
want broccoli, other days Hostess
Ding Dongs. Don't ask why."
Scott Tinely, triathlete [The
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Quotations]
Posted 04.26.14 "People come
out to see you perform and you've
got to give them the best you have
within you." Jesse Owens,
track and field Olympic Gold
Medalist [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.25.14 "Fighting has
been part of hockey for 50 years.
It'll be with us another 50. Count
on it." John Ferguson,
hockey player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.24.14 "Rushing the
passer is grueling work. It requires
a great outlay of speed, strength,
energy and determination. A man must
drive himself if he is going to
break through on every pass play."
Stanley Woodward,
sportswriter [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.23.14 "How many guys
we got in this league 1,500? Well,
that means there are 1,495 guys he
can't lick." Bill Parcells,
football coach, referring to his
kicker, who had told the media he
wanted to get in some hits during an
upcoming game [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.22.14 "It's not the
fact that men love football that
makes modern woman want to scream
... It's the assumption that she is
incapable of loving it, too."
Sally Jenkins, writer [The
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Quotations]
Posted 04.21.14 "I am a kicker,
but I'm tough. On kickoffs, I'll
barrel through there and knock those
runners right on my fanny."
Errol Mann, football player [The
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Quotations]
Posted 04.20.14 "A life is not
important, but for the impact it has
on others' lives." Jackie
Robinson, baseball player [The
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Quotations]
Posted 04.19.14 "Pro football
is like nuclear warfare. There are
no winners, only survivors."
Frank Gifford, football player [The
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Quotations]
Posted 04.18.14 "Managing is
getting paid for home runs that
somebody else hits." Casey
Stengel, baseball manager [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.17.14 "We're
basically a save-the-whales team; we
can't turn down big people who can
play." George Young, NFL
team executive [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.16.14 "How many other
times a year do you get to see dogs
with better haircuts than their
owners?" Linda Stasi,
journalist, writing about dog shows [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.15.14 "That last one
sounded kind of high to me."
Babe Ruth, baseball player,
questioning the umpire about three
fast pitches that he had not seen [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.14.14 "Nothing."
Ted Williams, baseball player,
when asked what he was thinking
about during his last at-bat, when
he hit a home run [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.13.14
"Vince fears high winds make every
forward pass a gamble. To Vincent
T. Lombardi, gambling on a
football field is a crime against
nature." Red Smith,
sportswriter, writing about Vince
Lombardi, football coach [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.12.14 "He thinks when
I was born I was already 60 years
old and had a wooden leg and came
here to manage." Casey Stengel,
baseball manager, on Mickey
Mantle, baseball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.11.14 "Today, I
consider myself the luckiest man in
the world." Lou Gehrig,
baseball player, as he retired due
to the effects of amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis, or ALS, which has
come to be known as Lou Gehrig's
Disease [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.10.14 "He who is not
courageous enough to take risks will
accomplish nothing in life."
Muhammad Ali, boxer [The
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Quotations]
Posted 04.09.14 "He doesn't
cook very well." Michael Chang,
when asked to describe any weakness
of fellow tennis champion Pete
Sampras [The
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Quotations]
Posted 04.08.14 "I teach them
how to grab the guy's shirt and step
on their toes." Bob Zawoluk,
assistant basketball coach, Lehman
College [The
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Quotations]
Posted 04.07.14 "Losing is no
disgrace if you've given your best."
Jim Palmer, baseball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.06.14 "You've got to
be a son-of-a-##### to play this
game right." Carl
Brettschnieder, football player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.05.14 "The critics
agree the Yale band was two steps
faster than Harvard's." Red
Smith, sportswriter [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.04.14 "When I watch
myself on film, sometimes I don't
even believe some of the things I
do." Walter Payton,
football player [The
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Quotations]
Posted 04.03.14 "Life in
basketball has a lot of suffering in
it." Pat Riley, basketball
coach [The
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Quotations]
Posted 04.02.14 "Of all
athletic forms, running is perhaps
the most taxing and the most
exciting; that is, when carried to
the extreme." Alfred Shrubb,
champion runner [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]
Posted 04.01.14 "Sport is human
life in microcosm." Howard
Cosell, broadcaster [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports
Quotations]