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Posted 08.31.13 � "The ironic thing is that I've never seen (Al Davis) and Darth Vader in the same place." � Howie Long, football player, on Al Davis, NFL team owner [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.30.13 � "You're out, and you're ugly, too." � Title of the memoir by Durwood Merrill, baseball umpire [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.29.13 � "A good driver is a helluva lot harder to find than a good wife." � Lee Trevino, thrice-married golfer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.28.13 � "Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire." � George Foreman, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.27.13 � "I slept like a baby � I woke up and cried every two hours." � Fred Taylor, football player, after a loss [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.26.13 � "The only guys I care about are the other 24 guys on my team." � Ken Griffey, Jr., baseball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.25.13 � "No sport, save possibly steeplechasing and football, is so good a school ... as polo." � George S. Patton, U.S. Army general [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.24.13 � "Awards become corroded; friends gather no dust." � Jesse Owens, Olympic track and field gold medalist [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.23.13 � "Sports do not build character. They reveal it." � Heywood Hale Broun, writer and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.22.13 � "Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up." � Bill Vaughn, writer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.21.13 � "This is, above all, a game of movement, of accuracy, of flow." � Harvey Araton, sportswriter, on basketball [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.20.13 � "Just a fad � passing fancy." � Philip Wrigley, baseball team owner, on games played after dark under the lights [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.19.13 � "There's about a foot difference between a halo and a noose." � Bobby Bowden, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.18.13 � "More than any other individual, Jack Dempsey created big-time sports in America." � Roger Kahn, writer, on Jack Dempsey, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.17.13 � "If you want to know the truth, I never liked the ... players I butted helmets with. Not even when the game had ended." � Dick Butkus, football player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.16.13 � "Gipp is no football player. He's a runaway son of a #####." � John J. McEwan, college football coach, on Notre Dame halfback George "The Gipper" Gipp [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.15.13 � "Some of us shake on the outside, some of us on the inside." � Roberto Clemente, baseball player, on getting butterflies [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.14.13 � "There is no way you will ever be a great player unless you want it." � Bobby Knight, basketball coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.13.13 � "I was never knocked out. I've been unconscious, but it's always been on my feet." � Floyd Patterson, boxer [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.12.13 � "Sooner or later, God takes it away from all of them � all of them." � Bill Parcells, football coach, on aging [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.11.13 � "The sport is bigger than the man. Any man. Nobody ever shaped the decathlon in his own image." � Bruce Jenner, Olympic decathlon gold medalist [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.10.13 � "I miss football so much � heck, I even miss the interceptions." � Archie Manning, retired NFL quarterback [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.09.13 � "Fatigue makes cowards of us all." � Vince Lombardi, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.08.13 � "I'd rather get Gatorade poured on me than bust my butt selling it." � Bill Parcells, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.07.13 � "Coaching is teaching. Some coaches try to make what they do sound mysterious and complicated when it's not... to be a good coach, you have to be a good teacher." � John Madden, football coach and broadcaster [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.06.13 � "We avoided guys who could play the piano." � Paul Brown, NFL coach and team owner, on one of the principles he followed in making draft selections [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.05.13 � "Character will only take you so far. You've got to have talent." � Karl Malone, basketball player [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.04.13 � "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 08.03.13 � "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 08.02.13 � "I find that prayers work best when you have big players." � Knute Rockne, football coach [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]

Posted 08.01.13 � "College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students � there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks." � H.L. Mencken, humorist and author [The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]