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Posted 04.30.09 — "A boxer knocked down is the loneliest guy in the world." — Gene Tunney, professional boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.29.09 — "The great global festival of sinew and sweat." — Red Smith, sportswriter, describing the Olympics — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.28.09 — "Our struggles against aggressors throughout our history have been won on the playgrounds and corner lots and fields of America." — John F. Kennedy, U.S. President — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.27.09 — "If I do something, it must be 100 percent. There can be no 99.9." — Dominik Hasek, professional hockey player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.26.09 — "I probably couldn't play for me. I wouldn't like my attitude." — John Thompson, college basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.25.09 — "We are here for the purpose to win for the fans. That is who we work for." — Roberto Clemente, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.24.09 — "Games are the last resort of those who do not know how to idle." — Robert Lynd, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.23.09 — "A lot of parents think kids ought to learn responsibility from work, and I've always said, 'Baloney.' Kids learn leadership and organization from games, from having fun." — John Madden, professional football coach and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.22.09 — "A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing." — Payne Stewart, professional golfer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.21.09 — "Jimmy Taylor, the great fullback of the Green Bay Packers, spent four years in college and emerged unscathed by education." — Dick Schaap, sportswriter, author and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.20.09 — "Since the earliest days of the human race, physical strength above the ordinary has been admired, envied, and striven for by the majority of men." — D.P. Willoughby, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.19.09 — "Talent is God-given, be humble; fame is man-given, be thankful; conceit is self-given, be careful." — Anonymous, quoted often by college basketball coach John Wooden — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.18.09 — "The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before." — Steve Young, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.17.09 — "I've never known a football writer who ever had to stand up to a blitz." — Joe Namath, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.16.09 — "The ironic thing is that I've never seen (team owner Al Davis) and Darth Vader in the same place." — Howie Long, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.15.09 — "A good driver is a helluva lot harder to find than a good wife." — Lee Trevino, thrice-married professional golfer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.14.09 — "The only guys I care about are the other 24 guys on my team." — Ken Griffey, Jr., professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.13.09 — "No sport, save possibly steeplechasing and football, is so good a school ... as polo." — George S. Patton, U.S. Army general — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.12.09 — "Awards become corroded; friends gather no dust." — Jesse Owens, Olympic gold medalist — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.11.09 — "Sports do not build character. They reveal it." — Heywood Hale Broun, writer and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.10.09 — "This is, above all, a game of movement, of accuracy, of flow." — Harvey Araton, sportswriter, on basketball — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.09.09 — "More than any other individual, Jack Dempsey created big-time sports in America." — Roger Kahn, writer, on the heavyweight champion boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.08.09 — "If you want to know the truth, I never liked the ... players I butted helmets with. Not even when the game had ended." — Dick Butkus, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.07.09 — "Gipp is no football player. He's a runaway son-of-a-#####." — John J. McEwan, college football coach, on Notre Dame football player George 'The Gipper' Gipp — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.06.09 — "Some of us shake on the outside, some of us on the inside." — Roberto Clemente, professional baseball player, on getting 'butterflies' — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.05.09 — "There is no way you will ever be a great player unless you want it." — Bobby Knight, college basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.04.09 — "I was never knocked out. I've been unconscious, but it's always been on my feet." — Floyd Patterson, champion boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.03.09 — "Sooner or later, God takes it away from all of them — all of them." — Bill Parcells, professional football coach, on players ageing — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 04.02.09 — "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 04.01.09 — "The sport is bigger than the man. Any man. Nobody ever shaped the decathlon in his own image." — Bruce Jenner, Olympic decathlon gold medalist — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

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