Posted 05.31.14 � "True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. True motivation is getting people to play beyond their potential." � Rick Pitino, basketball coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.30.14 � "Medicine is just about life and death. Sports is more important than that." � Andrew Edgar, philosopher [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.29.14 � "The solution to any problem � work, love, money, whatever � is to go fishing, and the worst problem, the longer the trip should be." � John Gierach, fisherman and writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.28.14 � "I ain't ever liked violence." � Sugar Ray Robinson, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.27.14 � "He can run, but he can't hide." � Joe Louis, boxer, on opponent Billy Conn, before a title bout [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.26.14 � "Being a professional athlete is just being a big kid." � Larry Csonka, football player and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.25.14 � "As a reflection of American life, the most popular sport in America is professional football: brutal, precise, competitive and highly standardized. In football, as in much of American society, the competitor is 'The Enemy,' and the all-consuming passion is to win, often, at any cost." � Dr. Ross Thomas Runfola, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.24.14 � "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." � Joe Theismann, football player and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.23.14 � "That boy in there has a lawyer with him and he doesn't need one." � Unidentified NBA executive, referring to negotiations with then-rookie Bill Bradley, a Rhodes Scholar and future U.S. senator [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.22.14 � "Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can win, you won't." � Jerry West, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.21.14 � "The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm and a weak mind." � Dizzy Dean, baseball player and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.20.14 � "I hate to lose. Hate, hate, hate to lose." � George Steinbrenner, owner, New York Yankees [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.19.14 � "Ebbets Field was where one learned to duck a punch and get along with a lot of different people." � Tony LoBianco, actor, on the baseball park that served as the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers until the team moved to Los Angeles after the 1957 season [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.18.14 � "When you step on that field, you cannot concede a thing." � Gale Sayers, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.17.14 � "In this country, you either finish first or last. There is no second place." � Buddy Werner, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.16.14 � "Sport is a right of the people." � Fidel Castro, communist dictator of Cuba [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.15.14 � "You travel around Texas with me, and everyone wants to talk about Nolan Ryan." � George W. Bush, U.S. president, Texas governor and Major League team owner, referring to the Hall of Fame pitcher [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.14.14 � "You'll know, because you'll be looking out of your ear hole." � Ronnie Barnes, NFL trainer and East Carolina alumnus, to David Meggett, football player, describing how to recognize when he had absorbed 'an official NFL hit' [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.13.14 � "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 05.12.14 � "Due to its ingredients ... courage, mental and physical condition, spirit, and its terrific body contact which tends to sort the men from the boys ... football remains one of the great games of all time." � Grantland Rice, sportswriter [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.11.14 � "Don't get sand kicked in your face." � Angelo Siciliano, also known as Charles Atlas, bodybuilder, from an advertisement for his bodybuilding regimens [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.10.14 � "Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently." � Cus D'Amato, boxing trainer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.09.14 � "There is something about a new pair of sneakers that makes a boy feel he can run faster and jump higher." � Spike Lee, writer, actor, director and sports fan [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.08.14 � "No athletic director holds office longer than two unsuccessful football coaches." � Bob Zuppke, college football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.07.14 � "Life really wouldn't be worth livin' if you didn't have a high school team to support." � Bob Rutherford, realtor and fan [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.06.14 � "I don't think we can win every game � just the next one." � Lou Holtz, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.05.14 � "There's nothing worse than a sorry, pitiful, whining teammate." � Charles Barkley, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.04.14 � "You play the way you practice." � Pop Warner, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.03.14 � "Games lubricate the body and the mind." � Benjamin Franklin, United States patriot, founding father and inventor [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.02.14 � "When I read the sports pages these days I think I'm reading the Wall Street Journal." � Dan Jansen, Olympic gold medalist speed skater, referring to sports business dollars [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 05.01.14 � "They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets." � LaVell Edwards, college football coach and one of 14 children [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]