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Posted 11.30.13 "Each is the
last to learn from fate, That his story
is finished and out of date."
Grantland Rice, sportswriter, on the
inevitability of retirement for athletes [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.29.13 "The hardest
thing about prize fighting is picking up
your teeth with a boxing glove on."
Kin Hubbard, humorist and author [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.28.13 "The difference
between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength, not a lack of
knowledge, but rather a lack of will."
Vince Lombardi, football coach [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.27.13 "This community
doesn't want academic excellence. It
wants a gladiatorial spectacle on a
Friday night." Dorothy Fowler,
Odessa, Texas, high school teacher [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.26.13 "Why do I have
to talk to these guys who make $6,000 a
year when I make $40,000 a year?"
Yogi Berra, baseball player, on
sportswriters [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.25.13 "He can take
his'n and beat your'n, or he can take
your'n and beat his'n." Bum Phillips,
football coach, on Don Shula,
football coach [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.24.13 "I don't look
at football as a career. It's a stepping
stone. I know too many ballplayers who
were lost when opportunity didn't knock
on their door." Frenchy Fuqua,
football player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.23.13 "If the doctors
had told me that I might die playing
football, I'd have asked them what the
chances were 'Give me the odds, Doc"
that's how much I wanted to play."
Jack Youngblood, football player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.22.13 "In wrestling
you never see anybody get seriously
hurt. When was the last time you heard
of a wrestler who was out for the season
with a knee injury?" Darryl Dawkins,
basketball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.21.13 "Part of the
charm of the Winter Olympics is that ice
skating and all the rest of those
Olympic sports completely disappear for
four years at a time." Dan Jenkins,
writer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.20.13 "He who is not
courageous enough to take risks will
accomplish nothing in life."
Muhammad Ali, boxer [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.19.13 "The prevalent
nature of the professional football
player is that of soldier of fortune.
He's trained and willing to bust people
up." Jim Brown, football player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.18.13 "The ball goes
through the net, the team gets the two
points. A player hardly ever scores by
himself." Ervin 'Magic' Johnson,
basketball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.17.13 "I've seen him
make chicken salad out of chicken
feathers many times." John
Brockington, football player, on
fellow running back Walter Payton [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.16.13 "As long as my
pitchers throw strikes, I'll have
patience. But when they start walking
people and getting behind I don't need
that." Lou Pinella, baseball
player and manager [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.15.13 "If you have
hope, there's light at the end of the
tunnel. Hope makes you better. The air
in the locker room is different when you
have hope." Dixon Ward, hockey
player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.14.13 "I was never a
rah-rah guy. I was never one of those
guys that went around and rah-rahed. ...
Rah-rah don't get it done." Sparky
Anderson, baseball manager [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.13.13 "Exercise is
king. Nutrition is queen. Put the two of
them together and you have a kingdom."
Jack Lalanne, fitness guru [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.12.13 "I won't do it
on Thursdays because I don't get paid to
do it on Thursdays." Alex Karras,
professional football player, discussing
his practice habits [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.11.13 "Medicine is
just about life and death. Sports is
more important than that." Andrew
Edgar, philosopher [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.10.13 "Baseball is
the very symbol, the outward and visible
expression of the drive and push and
rush and struggle of the raging,
tearing, booming 19th century." Mark
Twain, writer and humorist [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.09.13 "Baseball is
almost the only orderly thing in a very
unorderly world. If you get three
strikes, even the best lawyer in the
world can't get you off." Bill Veeck,
baseball team owner [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.08.13 "My motto was
always to keep swinging. Whether I was
in a slump or feeling badly or having
trouble off the field, the only thing to
do was keep swinging." Hank Aaron,
baseball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.07.13 "If you see a
defense with dirt and mud on their
backs, they've had a bad day." John
Madden, football coach and
broadcaster [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.06.13 "Well, this
year I'm told that the team did well
because one pitcher had a fine curve
ball. I understand that a curve ball is
thrown with a deliberate attempt to
deceive. Surely that is not an ability
we should want to foster at Harvard."
Charles William Eliot, Harvard
President, 1869-1909, when asked why he
wished to drop baseball as a college
sport [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.05.13 "Once a player
becomes bigger than the team, you no
longer have a team." Red Auerbach,
basketball coach [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.04.13 "I will crush
you like a grape." The phrase Mark
Tuinei, football player, most liked
to say to opposing linemen [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.03.13 "You always
have to focus in life on what you want
to achieve." Michael Jordan,
basketball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.02.13 "I'm still
Reggie, but not as often." Reggie
Jackson, baseball player, on getting
older [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]
Posted 11.01.13 "To so many
players, practice is like a pause
between their cell-phone conversations."
Marty Conlon, basketball player [The
Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations]