Posted 09.29.13 "I never let my
social life interfere with my athletic
training. I set my standards early so
that I would never get wrapped up in
that manner." Mark Spitz,
Olympic gold medalist swimmer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.28.13 "We couldn't
make a basket, we couldn't rebound, and
we didn't play defense. You might say we
put it all together." Bill Fitch,
basketball coach [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.27.13 "You have to
suck it up, do what you have to do for
the team to win." Patrick Ewing,
basketball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.26.13 "The only
reason I played golf was so I could
afford to hunt and fish." Sam Snead,
golfer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.25.13 "Good luck is
what is left over after intelligence and
effort have combined at their best."
Branch Rickey, baseball executive [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.24.13 "Some days you
want broccoli, other days Hostess Ding
Dongs. Don't ask why." Scott Tinley,
triathlete [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.23.13 "One of the
advantages bowling has over golf is that
you seldom lose a bowling ball."
Don Carter, bowler [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.22.13 "You hit home
runs not by chance, but by preparation."
Roger Maris, baseball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.21.13 "I've built the
greatest tribute ever paid to athlete's
foot!" Jack Kent Cooke, NBA and
NFL team owner, referring to the Los
Angeles Forum [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.20.13 "A life is not
important, but for the impact it has on
others' lives." Jackie Robinson,
baseball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.19.13 "A boxer
knocked down is the loneliest guy in the
world." Gene Tunney, boxer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.18.13 "The great
global festival of sinew and sweat."
Red Smith, sportswriter, on the
Olympic Games [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.17.13 "Our struggles
against aggressors throughout our
history have been won on the playgrounds
and corner lots and fields of America."
John F. Kennedy, U.S. president [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.16.13 "When all is
said and done, as a rule, more is said
than done." Lou Holtz, football
coach [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.15.13 "My high comes
from victory. Sports are my drugs."
Jean-Claude Killy, Olympic gold
medalist skier [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.14.13 "If I do
something, it must be 100 percent. There
can be no 99.9." Dominik Hasek,
hockey player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.13.13 "I probably
couldn't play for me. I wouldn't like my
attitude." John Thompson,
basketball coach [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.12.13 "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 09.11.13 "The greatest
horror of coaching is losing." Joe
Schmidt, football coach [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.10.13 "Games are
the last resort of those who do not know
how to idle." Robert Lynd,
writer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.09.13 "A lot of
parents think kids ought to learn
responsibility from work, and I've
always said, 'Baloney.' Kids learn
leadership and organization from games,
from having fun." John Madden,
football coach and broadcaster [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.08.13 "A bad
attitude is worse than a bad swing."
Payne Stewart, golfer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.07.13 "For the
real fan, sports are life and death."
Mike Littwin, sportswriter [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.06.13 "Jimmy
Taylor, the great fullback of the
Green Bay Packers, spent four years in
college and emerged unscathed by
education." Dick Schaap,
sportswriter, author and broadcaster [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.05.13 "Since the
earliest days of the human race,
physical strength above the ordinary has
been admired, envied, and striven for by
the majority of men." D.P.
Willoughby, writer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.04.13 "Gentlemen, you
are about to play football for Yale.
Never again in your lives will you do
anything so important." Tad Jones,
football coach, to his Yale
Bulldogs team, circa 1920 [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.03.13 "Talent is
God-given, be humble; fame is man-given,
be thankful; conceit is self-given, be
careful." Anonymous, quoted
often by John Wooden, basketball
coach [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 09.02.13 "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 09.01.13 "The principle
is competing against yourself. It's
about self-improvement, about being
better than you were the day before."
Steve Young, football player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
