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Posted 10.31.09 � "Managing is getting paid for home runs that somebody else hits." � Casey Stengel, baseball manager � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.30.09 � "We're basically a save-the-whales team; we can't turn down big people who can play." � George Young, NFL team executive � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.29.09 � "How many other times a year do you get to see dogs with better haircuts than their owners?" � Linda Stasi, journalist, writing about dog shows � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.28.09 � "That last one sounded kind of high to me." � Babe Ruth, baseball player, questioning the umpire about the last of three fast pitches Ruth had not seen � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.27.09 � "Nothing." � Baseball player Ted Williams' response when asked what he was thinking about during his final at-bat, when he hit a home run � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.26.09 � "Vince fears high winds make every forward pass a gamble. To Vincent T. Lombardi, gambling on a football field is a crime against nature." � Red Smith, writing about football coach Vince Lombardi � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.25.09 � "He thinks when I was born I was already 60 years old and had a wooden leg and came here to manage." � Casey Stengel, baseball manager, referring to Mickey Mantle, baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.24.09 � "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man in the world." � Lou Gehrig, professional baseball player, as he retired because of the effects of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, which has come to be known as Lou Gehrig's Disease � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.23.09 � "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." � Muhammad Ali, boxer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.22.09 � "He doesn't cook very well." � Michael Chang, tennis player, when asked to identify fellow tennis player Pete Sampras's weakness � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.21.09 � "I teach them how to grab the guy's shirt and step on their toes." � Bob Zawoluk, Lehman College assistant basketball coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.20.09 � "Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best." � Jim Palmer, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.19.09 � "You've got to be a son-of-a-##### to play this game right." � Carl Brettschnieder, professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.18.09 � "The critics agree the Yale band was two steps faster than Harvard's." � Red Smith, sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.17.09 � "When I watch myself on film, sometimes I don't even believe some of the things I do." � Walter Payton, professional football player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.16.09 � "Life in basketball has a lot of suffering in it." � Pat Riley, professional basketball coach � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.15.09 � "Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme." � Alfred Shrubb, champion runner � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.14.09 � "Sport is human life in microcosm." � Howard Cosell, broadcaster � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.13.09 � "Basketball is the city game." � Pete Axthelm, sportswriter � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.12.09 � "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 10.11.09 � "Monday Night Football." � Camille Paglia, feminist writer, when asked to name her favorite television show � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.10.09 � "These are the saddest words � Tinker to Evers to Chance. Picking forever our gonfalon bubble, Causing a Giant to hit into a double, Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble, Tinker to Evers to Chance." � Franklin Pierce Adams, sportswriter and New York Giants fan, describing with a poem the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination of shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers and first baseman Frank Chance � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.09.09 � "That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my #%@# clothes." � Karas Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, who kept a color photo of himself above his locker � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.08.09 � "For years, coaches would not allow athletes to lift weights because it made them look muscle-bound. Now weight training is a main part of almost any team's training program." � Lou Ferrigno, bodybuilder, professional football player and actor � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.07.09 � "Running on an artificial leg at full speed is like driving backwards at 55 miles per hour, using only your rearview mirror to guide you." � Thomas Bourgeois, champion runner and below-the-knee amputee � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.06.09 � "People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport [hockey] is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be diverted, factoring in all the interruptions." � Wayne Gretzky, professional hockey player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.05.09 � "Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel. Not just to be as good as everyone else, but to be better. This is the nature of man, and this is the name of the game." � Ted Williams, professional baseball player � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.04.09 � "It's a lot harder to be a football coach than a President. You've got four years as President, and they guard you. A coach doesn't have anyone to protect him when things go wrong." � Harry Truman, U.S. President � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.03.09 � "It's the kind of place where you can be a successful neurosurgeon, but if you were a lousy football player people still look at you funny." � Geno DeMarco, Geneva College football coach, on the school's fans � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.02.09 � "I can sympathize with Canadians whose noses are out of joint. How would Americans feel if the baseball commissioner was Japanese?" � Bob McKenzie, columnist, writing about the Americanization of hockey, which Canadians feel is their national sport � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.01.09 � "Ever to be the best and to surpass others." � Achilles, in The Odyssey, by Homer � [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

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