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Posted 08.31.08 � "Although he is a very poor fielder, he is also a very poor hitter." � Ring Lardner, sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.30.08 � "You were supposed to depersonalize your body; it wasn't your leg, it was 'the leg.' � Rick Sortun, professional football player, on injuries � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.29.08 � "Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire." � George Foreman, professional boxer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.28.08 � "A champion is someone who can't settle for second best." � Warren Spahn, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.27.08 � "Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die." � Joe Louis, professional boxer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.26.08 � "Stand on the rubber and read the writing on the mitt. Total focus. Shut the world out." � Jan Reid, sportswriter, about the mental aspect of pitching � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.25.08 � "Look like a winner and act like a champ all the time. If you win, be gracious. Keep your head on." � James Francis 'Jumbo' Elliott, track and field coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.24.08 � "The players tried to take the field, the marching band refused to yield, do you remember what was the deal, the day, the music died?" � Don McLean, musician, American Pie � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.23.08 � "People talk about big targets, but what the passer wants is an open target." � Harold Jackson, professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.22.08 � "Sweat plus sacrifice equals success." � Charles O. Finley, Major League Baseball team owner � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.21.08 � "I can buy any one of these sons-of-####### for a $5 steak." � George Weiss, baseball executive, about sportswriters � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.20.08 � "Who knows? Amid world beating hearts, The tumult and the Shouting starts." � Grantland Rice, sportswriter, on hype � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.19.08 � "There's no such thing as a 'presumed' record. It's either a record or it's not." � Seymour Siwoff, sports statistician � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.18.08 � "In a universal sense, football is so insignificant, it's ridiculous." � Pat Hayden, professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.17.08 � "All great fishermen go to bed early." � Ted Williams, professional baseball player and world-class fisherman � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.16.08 � "Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved." � Red Smith, sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.15.08 � "You've gotta have a lot of little boy in you to play this game." � Roy Campanella, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.14.08 � "I see great things in baseball. It is our game. The American game. It will repair our losses and be a blessing to us." � Walt Whitman, poet � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.13.08 � "The greatest horror of coaching is losing." � Joe Schmidt, professional football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.12.08 � "Don't try to perform beyond your abilities � but never perform below them." � Frank Robinson, professional baseball player and manager � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.11.08 � "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." � Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.10.08 � "Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up." � Bill Vaughn, writer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.09.08 � "Thrust against pain, pain is the purifier." � Percy Cerutty, Australian Olympic coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.08.08 � "God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own." � Ted Williams, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.07.08 � "I find that prayers work best when you have big players." � Knute Rockne, college football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.06.08 � "Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part." � Elgin Baylor, professional basketball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.05.08 � "Try to exercise, eat better, try to do some fun things with my wife." � Tom Davis, college basketball coach, on his plans after being fired � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.04.08 � "Don't let anyone outwork you." � Attributed to his father by Derek Jeter, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.03.08 � "I am delighted to view any sport that may be safely engaged in." � Charles Dickens, novelist � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.02.08 � "Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd be easier for me if I was a little crazier � and a little more patient." � Bo Jackson, professional baseball and football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.01.08 � "If I don't make it to the NBA, I'm gonna be a drug dealer. Somehow I gotta get me a Lexus. Whatever it takes." � Booger Smith, high school basketball player (opening line of the documentary Soul in the Hole) � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

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