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Posted 11.30.09 — "Ebbets Field was where one learned to duck a punch and get along with a lot of different people." — Tony LoBianco, actor, on the Dodgers' one-time home baseball park in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.29.09 — "When you step on that field, you cannot concede a thing." — Gale Sayers, football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.28.09 — "In this country, you either finish first or last. There is no second place." — Buddy Werner, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.27.09 — "Sport is a right of the people." — Fidel Castro, Cuban dictator — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.26.09 — "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 11.25.09 — "Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time." — Dr. Arnold Mandell, sports psychologist — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.24.09 — "Due to its ingredients ... courage, mental and physical condition, spirit, and its terrific body contact which tends to sort the men from the boys ... football remains one of the great games of all time." — Grantland Rice, sports writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.23.09 — "Don't get sand kicked in your face." — Charles Atlas, also known as Angelo Siciliano, bodybuilder, from an advertisement for his bodybuilding regimens — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.22.09 — "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 11.21.09 — "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 11.20.09 — "No athletic director holds office longer than two unsuccessful football coaches." — Bob Zuppke, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.19.09 — "Life really wouldn't be worth livin' if you didn't have a high school team to support." — Bob Rutherford, fan — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.18.09 — "I don't think we can win every game — just the next one." — Lou Holtz, football coach and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.17.09 — "There's nothing worse than a sorry, pitiful, whining teammate." — Charles Barkley, basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.16.09 — "You play the way you practice." — Pop Warner, football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.15.09 — "Games lubricate the body and the mind." — Benjamin Franklin, U.S. patriot, Founding Father, inventor — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.14.09 — "When I read the sports pages these days, I think I'm reading the Wall Street Journal." — Dan Jansen, speed skater, referring to sports business dollars — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.13.09 — "They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets." — LaVell Edwards, college football coach and one of 14 children — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.12.09 — "All right, no limping. If you have to limp, don't scrimmage. If you want to scrimmage, don't limp." — Red Blaik, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.11.09 — "The hardest part of losing is knowing you have failed those who are depending on you." — Johnny Roach, football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.10.09 — "One sign of a hero is if you feel enhanced simply when talking about him — recounting his feats, recalling a time when your own little life was touched by his." — Roger Rosenblatt, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.09.09 — "Some days you want broccoli, other days Hostess Ding Dongs. Don't ask why." — Scott Tinely, triathlete — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.08.09 — "People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you." — Jesse Owens, Olympic track and field gold medalist — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.07.09 — "Fighting has been part of hockey for 50 years. It'll be with us another 50. Count on it." — John Ferguson, hockey player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.06.09 — "Rushing the passer is grueling work. It requires a great outlay of speed, strength, energy and determination. A man must drive himself if he is going to break through on every pass play." — Stanley Woodward, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.05.09 — "How many guys we got in this league — 1,500? Well, that means there are 1,495 guys he can't lick." — Bill Parcells, football coach, after his kicker told the media he wanted to get in some hits during an upcoming game — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.04.09 — "It's not the fact that men love football that makes modern woman want to scream ... It's the assumption that she is incapable of loving it, too." — Sally Jenkins, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.03.09 — "I am a kicker, but I'm tough. On kickoffs, I'll barrel through there and knock those runners right on my fanny." — Errol Mann, football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.02.09 — "A life is not important, but for the impact it has on others' lives." — Jackie Robinson, baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 11.01.09 — "Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors." — Frank Gifford, football player and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

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