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Posted 11.30.13 � "Each is the last to learn from fate, That his story is finished � and out of date."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]