Posted 12.31.15
"Watch out you big baboon. I'm
going down on the first pitch. I'm
taking third on the next pitch." Ty Cobb, baseball
player, to the opposing team's
pitcher [Baseball
Quotes from Ty Cobb]
Posted 12.30.15
"Practice puts brains in your
muscles."
Sam Snead, professional golfer [Golf
Quotes from Sam Snead]
Posted 12.29.15 "Leadership
is diving for a loose ball, getting
the crowd involved, getting other
players involved. It's being able to
take it as well as dish it out.
That's the only way you're going to
get respect from the players."
Larry Bird, basketball player [Larry
Bird Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]
Posted 12.28.15
"When ole Diz was out there pitching
it was more than just another ball
game. It was a regular three-ring
circus and everybody was wide awake
and enjoying being alive."
Pepper Martin,
baseball player, on Dizzy Dean,
baseball pitcher [Baseball
Quotes from DizzyDean.com]
Posted 12.27.15
"It's not the will to win that
matters everyone has that. It's
the will to prepare to win that
matters."
Paul "Bear" Bryant, football
coach [Football
Quotes from Paul "Bear" Bryant]
Posted 12.26.15
"Maybe it's because I'm in the rough
so much that I get to know them all
personally." Arnold Palmer,
professional golfer, on his
relationship with the diehard corps
of fans referred to by sportswriters
and broadcasters as "Arnie's Army" [Golf
Quotes from Arnold Palmer]
Posted 12.25.15
"People say Yogi is a strange
guy, and I've heard Yogi say some
funny things. But he has a beautiful
wife, he's rich, and he's famous. I
don't see anything strange about
that." Mickey Mantle,
baseball player, on fellow New York
Yankee Yogi Berra [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 12.24.15
"All managers are losers, they are
the most expendable pieces of
furniture on the face of the Earth." Ted
Williams, baseball player [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 12.23.15
"I know why Peyton came back
for his senior year. He wanted to be
a three-time star of the Citrus Bowl."
Steve Spurrier,
football coach, referring to
Tennessee's failure to make the
Sugar Bowl while Spurrier was at
Florida and making light of Vols
quarterback Peyton Manning's
decision to not enter the NFL draft
early [Steve
Spurrier Quotes from USA Today]
Posted 12.22.15
"There is no substitute for
work. Vince
Lombardi, football coach [Quotes from Vince Lombardi]
Posted 12.21.15
"When I came to Detroit, I was
just a mild-mannered Sunday school
boy." Ty Cobb, baseball
player, who went on to become one of
Major League Baseball's most
aggressive base runners and fiercest
all-around competitors [Baseball
Quotes from Ty Cobb]
Posted 12.20.15
"To be consistently effective,
you must put a certain distance
between yourself and what happens to
you on the golf course. This is not
indifference, it's detachment."
Sam Snead, professional golfer [Golf
Quotes from Sam Snead]
Posted 12.19.15 "Once
you are labeled 'the best' you want
to stay up there, and you can't do
it by loafing around."
Larry Bird, basketball player [Larry
Bird Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]
Posted 12.18.15
"Well, what's wrong with 'ain't?'
And as for saying 'Rizzuto slud into
second,' it just ain't natural.
Sounds silly to me. Slud is
something more than slid. It means
sliding with great effort." Dizzy Dean,
baseball player and
announcer, explaining the subtleties
of his unique vernacular for calling
play-by-play action [Baseball
Quotes from Dizzy Dean]
Posted 12.17.15
"Sacrifice. Work.
Self-discipline. I teach these
things, and my boys don't forget
them when they leave."
Paul "Bear" Bryant, football
coach [Football
Quotes from Paul "Bear" Bryant]
Posted 12.16.15
"Trouble is bad to get into but fun
to get out of. If you're in trouble,
eighty percent of the time there's a
way out. If you can see the ball,
you can probably hit it; and if you
can hit it, you can move it; and if
you can move it, you might be able
to knock it in the hole. At least
it's fun to try." Arnold Palmer,
professional golfer [Golf
Quotes from Arnold Palmer]
Posted 12.15.15
"I'll never forget the catch he made
to save the game." Don
Larsen,
baseball pitcher, on centerfielder
Mickey Mantle's back-handed
grab of Gil Hodges' deep
line-drive bid for extra bases that
preserved Larsen's successful effort to
pitch the only perfect game in
World Series history against the
Brooklyn Dodgers on Oct. 6, 1956 [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 12.14.15
"A kid copies what is good. I
remember the first time I saw Lefty
O'Doul, and he was as far away as
those palms. And I saw the guy come
to bat in batting practice. I was
looking through a knothole, and I
said, 'Geez, does that guy look
good!' And it was Lefty O'Doul, one
of the greatest hitters ever." Ted
Williams, baseball player,
recounting a childhood opportunity
to peek through the fence at one of
Major League Baseball's early star
players [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 12.13.15
"You cant spell Citrus without U-T."
Steve Spurrier,
football coach, when asked about
Tennessees failure to make the
Sugar Bowl while Spurrier was at
Florida [Steve
Spurrier Quotes from USA Today]
Posted 12.12.15
"Success is based upon a
spiritual quality, a power to
inspire others. Vince
Lombardi, football coach [Quotes from Vince Lombardi]
Posted 12.11.15
"To get along with me, don't
increase my tension." Ty Cobb, baseball
player [Baseball
Quotes from Ty Cobb]
Posted 12.10.15
"Until you play it, St. Andrews
looks like the sort of real estate
you couldn't give away."
Sam Snead, professional golfer [Golf
Quotes from Sam Snead]
Posted 12.09.15 "Push
yourself again and again. Don't give
an inch until the final buzzer
sounds."
Larry Bird, basketball player [Larry
Bird Quotes from BrainyQuote.com]
Posted 12.08.15 "He
slud into third." Dizzy Dean,
baseball player and play-by-play
announcer, describing in his unique
vernacular a runner sliding into
third base [Baseball
Quotes from Dizzy Dean]
Posted 12.07.15
"The old lessons (work,
self-discipline, sacrifice,
teamwork, fighting to achieve)
aren't being taught by many people
other than football coaches these
days. The football coach has a
captive audience and can teach these
lessons because the communication
lines between himself and his
players are more wide open than
between kids and parents. We better
teach these lessons or else the
country's future population will be
made up of a majority of crooks,
drug addicts, or people on relief."
Paul "Bear" Bryant, football
coach [Football
Quotes from Paul "Bear" Bryant]
Posted 12.06.15
"I don't look at it as a
gamble, really. I just look at it as
a harder shot. Why hit a
conservative shot? When you miss it,
you're in just as much trouble as
when you miss a bold one." Arnold Palmer,
professional golfer [Golf
Quotes from Arnold Palmer]
Posted 12.05.15
"Hey man! Get away from me!" Mickey Mantle,
adhering to superstition, to Don
Larsen, his New York Yankees
teammate, when Larsen tried to talk
to Mantle while Larsen was pitching the only perfect game in
World Series history against the
Brooklyn Dodgers on Oct. 6, 1956 [Baseball
Quotes from Steve the Ump]
Posted 12.04.15
"Baseball is the only field of
endeavor where a man can succeed
three times out of ten and be
considered a good performer." Ted
Williams, baseball player, in
The 2006 ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia [Baseball
Quotes from Baseball Almanac]
Posted 12.03.15
"In Knoxville theyre still doing
cartwheels because they went 7-6 and
won a bowl."
Steve Spurrier,
football coach, on the Tennessee
Volunteers football program [Steve
Spurrier Quotes from USA Today]
Posted 12.02.15
"In order to succeed, this
group will need a singleness of
purpose, they will need a
dedication, and they will have to
convince all of their prospects of
the willingness to sacrifice. Vince
Lombardi, football coach [Quotes from Vince Lombardi]
Posted 12.01.15
"The great American game should
be an unrelenting war of nerves." Ty Cobb, baseball
player [Baseball
Quotes from Ty Cobb]