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Posted 06.30.09 — "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." — Vince Lombardi, professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.29.09 — "This community doesn't want academic excellence. It wants a gladiatorial spectacle on a Friday night." — Dorothy Fowler, high school teacher in Odessa, Texas, on the town's zeal about the school's football program — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.28.09 — "Why do I have to talk to these guys who make $6,000 a year when I make $40,000 a year?" — Yogi Berra, professional baseball player, referring to sportswriters — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.27.09 — "He can take his'n and beat your'n, or he can take your'n and beat his'n." — Bum Phillips, on fellow professional football coach Don Shula — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.26.09 — "I don't look at football as a career. It's a stepping stone. I know too many ballplayers who were lost when opportunity didn't knock on their door." — Frenchy Fuqua, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.25.09 — "If the doctors had told me that I might die playing football, I'd have asked them what the chances were — 'Give me the odds, Doc" — that's how much I wanted to play." — Jack Youngblood, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.24.09 — "In wrestling you never see anybody get seriously hurt. When was the last time you heard of a wrestler who was out for the season with a knee injury?" — Darryl Dawkins, professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.23.09 — "Part of the charm of the Winter Olympics is that ice skating and all the rest of those Olympic sports completely disappear for four years at a time." — Dan Jenkins, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.22.09 — "The ball goes through the net, the team gets the two points. A player hardly ever scores by himself." — Ervin 'Magic' Johnson, professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.21.09 — "As long as my pitchers throw strikes, I'll have patience. But when they start walking people and getting behind — I don't need that." — Lou Pinella, professional baseball manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.20.09 — "If you have hope, there's light at the end of the tunnel. Hope makes you better. The air in the locker room is different when you have hope." — Dixon Ward, professional hockey player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.19.09 — "I was never a rah-rah guy. I was never one of those guys that went around and rah-rahed. ... Rah-rah don't get it done." — Sparky Anderson, professional baseball manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.18.09 — "Medicine is just about life and death. Sports is more important than that." — Andrew Edgar, philosopher — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.17.09 — "I won't do it on Thursdays because I don't get paid to do it on Thursdays." — Alex Karras, professional football player, discussing his practice habits — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.16.09 — "Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming 19th century." — Mark Twain, writer and humorist — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.15.09 — "Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off." — Bill Veeck, professional baseball team owner — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.14.09 — "My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." — Hank Aaron, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.13.09 — "If you see a defense with dirt and mud on their backs, they've had a bad day." — John Madden, professional football coach and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.12.09 — "Well, this year I'm told that the team did well because one pitcher had a fine curve ball. I understand that a curve ball is thrown with a deliberate attempt to deceive. Surely that is not an ability we should want to foster at Harvard." — Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard, 1869-1909, when asked why he wished to drop baseball as a college sport — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.11.09 — "Once a player becomes bigger than the team, you no longer have a team." — Red Auerbach, professional basketball coach and executive — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.10.09 — "I will crush you like a grape." — The phrase Mark Tuinei, professional football player, most liked to tell opposing linemen — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.09.09 — "You always have to focus in life on what you want to achieve." — Michael Jordan, professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.08.09 — "I'm still Reggie, but not as often." — Reggie Jackson, professional baseball player, on getting older — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.07.09 — "To so many players, practice is like a pause between their cell-phone conversations." — Marty Conlon, professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.06.09 — "Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently." — Cus D'Amato, boxing trainer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.05.09 — "There's no such thing as a 'presumed record.' It's either a record or it's not." — Seymour Siwoff, statistician, Elias Sports Bureau — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.04.09 — "I zigged when I should have zagged." — Jack Ropes, professional boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.03.09 — "Astute, double-hearted, irresistible." — Toni Morrison, author, describing champion boxer Muhammad Ali — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.02.09 — "Competitive sports teach and reaffirm for the players all the positive values of life." — Harvey S. Wiener, writer and swimmer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 06.01.09 — "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.]

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