Posted 04.30.16 � "I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you." � Joe Louis, boxer [Joe Louis quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.29.16 � "Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?" � Rocky Marciano, boxer [Rocky Marciano quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.28.16 � "I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." � Michael Jordan, basketball player [Michael Jordan quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.27.16 � "When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of horror stories about what you feel like on the inside." � Nolan Ryan, baseball pitcher [Nolan Ryan quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.26.16 � "So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start." � Reggie Jackson, baseball player [Reggie Jackson quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.25.16 � "Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?" � George Steinbrenner, New York Yankees owner [George Steinbrenner quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.24.16 � "There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you." � Woody Hayes, football coach [Woody Hayes quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 0423.16 � "Unless you give it all you've got, there isn't any sense in playing." � Stan Musial, baseball player [Stan Musial quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.22.16 � "Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything." � Mike Ditka, football coach [Mike Ditka quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.21.16 � "If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old-fashioned hard work." � John Wooden, basketball coach [John Wooden quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.20.16 � "The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky they're going to give Cleveland State another year of probation." � Jerry Tarkanian, basketball coach [Jerry Tarkanian quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.19.16 � "A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best." � Dick Vitale, basketball coach and broadcaster [Dick Vitale quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.18.16 � "I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough." � Dick Butkus, football player [Dick Butkus quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.17.16 � "When we're playing a good scoring center, we tell our team that it is not our defensive man's job to stop the center. It's the responsibility of our perimeter people to stop the ball from going inside." � Bobby Knight, basketball coach [Bobby Knight quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.16.16 � "Only in America can you find so many angry people claiming to love their country, while hating almost anyone in it." � Don King, boxing promoter [Don King quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.15.16 � "I'm working for the Lord, and even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is." � George Foreman, boxer [George Foreman quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.14.16 � "Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them � a desire, a dream, a vision." � Muhammad Ali, boxer [Muhammad Ali quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.13.16 � "We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort." � Jesse Owens, Olympic track and field athlete [Jesse Owens quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.12.16 � "Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else." � Jim Thorpe, world-class, all-around athlete, when asked about his favorite sport [Jim Thorpe quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.11.16 � "The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven." � Knute Rockne, football coach [Knute Rockne quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.10.16 � "Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 percent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation." � Grantland Rice, sportswriter [Grantland Rice quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.09.16 � "It was an ideal day for football � too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players." � Red Smith, sportswriter [Red Smith quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.08.16 � "You are our leader." � Ralph Houk, New York Yankees manager, to Mickey Mantle, baseball player, in spring training, 1961 [Baseball Quotes from Steve the Ump]

Posted 04.07.16 � "Well, I can't rightly say, but the ones (Babe) Ruth hit got smaller quicker." � Walter 'The Big Train' Johnson, baseball pitcher, when asked which opposing player hit the ball hardest [Walter 'The Big Train' Johnson quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.06.16 � "I ain't afraid to tell the world that it don't take school stuff to help a fella play ball." � Shoeless Joe Jackson, baseball player [Shoeless Joe Jackson quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.05.16 � "People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball." � Sandy Koufax, baseball pitcher [Sandy Koufax quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.04.16 � "I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it." � Rogers Hornsby, baseball player [Rogers Hornsby quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.03.16 � "Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record." � Roger Maris, baseball player, on his pursuit of Babe Ruth's single-season home run record [Roger Maris quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.02.16 � "You have to get knocked down to realize how people really feel about you. I've realized that more than ever lately. The other day, I was on my way to the car. It was hailing, the streets were slippery and I was having a tough time of it. I came to a corner and started to slip. But before I could fall, four people jumped out of nowhere to help me. When I thanked them, they all said they knew about my illness and had been keeping an eye on me." � Lou Gehrig, baseball player, acknowledging the kindness of others after his diagnosis with ALS [Lou Gehrig quotes from azquotes.com]

Posted 04.01.16 � "If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball." �  Kinnesaw Mountain Landis, Major League Baseball Commissioner, to Shoeless Joe Jackson, baseball player, after the 1919 Black Sox scandal [Joe DiMaggio quotes from azquotes.com]