Posted 06.30.14 — "In a universal sense, football is so insignificant, it's ridiculous." — Pat Hayden, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.29.14 — "The more I practice, the luckier I get." — Gary Player, golfer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.28.14 — "Basketball is the MTV of sports." — Sara Levinson, NFL executive [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.27.14 — "Football is the closest thing we have to the Christians and the lions." — Dan Jenkins, author [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.26.14 — "I believe there is winning and misery and even when we win I'm miserable." — Pat Riley, basketball coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.25.14 — "My college playbook was like a Dr. Seuss book. With the 49ers, it's like a cookbook." — Terrell Owens, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.24.14 — "A saloon keeper from Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania." — Red Smith, sportswriter, describing Joe Namath, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.23.14 — "The only players I hurt with my words are ones with inflated opinions of their ability." — Bill Parcells, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.22.14 — "I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating." — Jim Finks, NFL team executive [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.21.14 — "Keep your head up; act like a champion." — Paul "Bear" Bryant, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.20.14 — "Which game do I like better? I like baseball better in the spring. I like football better in the fall." — Bo Jackson, baseball and football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.19.14 — "I eat what I eat and I weigh what I weigh." — George Foreman, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.18.14 — "Be reasonable: Do it my way." — Sign on the desk of John Calipari, basketball coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.17.14 — "I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.' " — Frank Layden, NBA executive and coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.16.14 — "When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1) admit it; 2) learn from it; 3) don't repeat it." — Paul "Bear" Bryant, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.15.14 — "Individual commitment to a group effort, gentlemen, that's what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." — Vince Lombardi, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.14.14 — "Whenever Rock opened his kisser, the throng became as silent as a tomb." — Harry Grayson, sportswriter, on Knute Rockne, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.13.14 — "Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones." — Darrell Royal, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.12.14 — "Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude." — Bart Starr, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.11.14 — "If I ever need a brain transplant, I want one from a sportswriter, because I'll know it's never been used." — Joe Paterno, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.10.14 — "No excuse in the world counts for squat." — Mark Schubert, U.S. Olympic swimming coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.09.14 — "That young'un can't be doing that all by himself." — Bum Phillips, NFL coach, who accused Oakland of filling punter Ray Guy's football with helium, because the Southern Miss product's kicks went so high and deep [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.08.14 — "If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out, and it wouldn't be the monkey." — Lyle Alzado, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.07.14 — "Statistics always remind me of the fellow who drowned in a river whose average depth was only three feet." — Woody Hayes, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.06.14 — "Whatever else I do, I want to always be a kind of ambassador, a preacher for bodybuilding." — Arnold Schwarzenegger, bodybuilder, actor and California Governor [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.05.14 — "Most coaches hate preventable mistakes as much as I did. Somebody asked Don Shula if it was a waste of time to correct a small flaw. 'What's a small flaw?' Don wanted to know." — John Madden, football coach and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.04.14 — "Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo." — Tony Kornheiser, writer and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.03.14 — "When I play lacrosse it makes me feel like I am playing the game with all of my ancestors. It also makes me proud that it was our people who gave lacrosse to the world. For those reasons, lacrosse is more than just a game." — Chief Irving Powless, Jr., Onondaga Nation [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.02.14 — "I awoke to strangely mixed feelings of discomfort and anticipation ... Suddenly my mind cleared, and I remembered that this was the most important day of all, for it was our turn to start on the long slow upward grind that might, with luck, end on the summit of Everest." — Sir Edmund Hillary, mountain climber, first man to reach the top of Mount Everest [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 06.01.14 — "Leaders have a different look from followers. They get it sometime while being potty-trained or tumbling around a kindergarten playroom. ... People who don't get it early never do." — Harvey Manning, mountain climber [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]