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Posted 11.30.08 � "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." � Michael Jordan, professional basketball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.29.08 � "There is nothing harder to do in all of sports than hitting a home run." � Ted Williams, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.28.08 � "I never throwed an illegal pitch ... Just once in a while I used to toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation." � Satchel Paige, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.27.08 � "I believe there is winning and misery and even when we win I'm miserable." � Pat Riley, professional basketball coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.26.08 � "The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top." � Pete Dye, golf course designer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.25.08 � "Good to meet you. A writer, huh? What paper you with, Ernie?" � Yogi Berra, professional baseball player, upon being introduced to Ernest Hemingway � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.24.08 � "He's got the heart of a lion. He may be the type of player that comes around once in a thousand years." � Tom Watson, professional golfer, on Tiger Woods, professional golfer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.23.08 � "True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. True motivating is getting people to play beyond their potential." � Rick Pitino, college and professional basketball coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.22.08 � "I will not permit 30 men to travel 400 miles to agitate a bag of wind." � Andrew Dickson White, Cornell University President, who would not allow his school's football team to travel to play Michigan � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.21.08 � "You'll know, because you'll be looking out of your ear hole." � Ronnie Barnes, NFL trainer and East Carolina alumnus, to player David Meggett, referring to what is known in the league as 'an official NFL hit' � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.20.08 � "If I could make more money running a supermarket, I'd run a supermarket. My best thing is driving cars... It's a business, like any other business." � Richard Petty, race car driver � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.19.08 � "College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students � there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks." � H.L. Mencken, humorist and author � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.18.08 � "I'm not much of a golfer. I don't have any friends. And, all I like to do the day of a game is go home and be alone and worry about ways not to lose." � Paul 'Bear' Bryant, college football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.17.08 � "When you unwrap a Reggie Bar, it tells you how good it is." � Jim 'Catfish' Hunter, professional baseball player, on the candy bar named after Reggie Jackson, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.16.08 � "Running on an artificial leg at full speed is like driving backward at 55 miles per hour, using only your rearview mirror to guide you." � Thomas Bourgeois, runner and below-the-knee amputee � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.15.08 � "You wolves been howling for blood all year. Maybe this'll shut you up." � John King, professional baseball player, as he threw 50 chunks of meat into the stands � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.14.08 � "In pro football the college draft is what makes good teams great, as the youngsters imbue a team with their youth and enthusiasm, pushing the veterans to play harder, and sometimes pushing them out." � Peter Golenboch, sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.13.08 � "Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject." � Shelby Metcalf, Texas A&M basketball coach, to a player who received four F's and one D � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.12.08 � "Coaching is teaching. Some coaches try to make what they do sound mysterious and complicated when it's not ... to be a good coach, you have to be a good teacher." � John Madden, professional football coach, writer and broadcaster � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.11.08 � "Things are never quite a good as they seem. Things are never quite as bad as they seem. In between falls reality." � John Calipari, college and professional basketball coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.10.08 � "When he didn't remember our anniversary, I knew he was OK." � Lisa McCaffrey, on her husband, professional football player Ed McCaffrey, who had suffered a concussion � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.09.08 � "He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings." � Torrin Polk, college football player, on John Jenkins, college football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.08.08 � "If the man tells you there's cheese on the mountain, then you best bring crackers." � Keith Byars, professional football player, on Bill Parcells, professional football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.07.08 � "The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own." � Bill Bradley, professional basketball player and U.S. senator � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.06.08 � "There is nothing harder to do in all of sports than hitting a home run." � Ted Williams, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.05.08 � "Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little." � George Allen, professional football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.04.08 � "There is something about a new pair of sneakers that makes a boy feel he can run faster and jump higher." � Spike Lee, writer, actor, director and sports fan � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.03.08 � "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 11.02.08 � "In football and in business, preparation precedes performance." � Bill Walsh, college and professional football coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.01.08 � "Some of us shake on the outside, some of us on the inside." � Roberto Clemente, professional baseball player, on butterflies � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

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