Posted 03.31.06 — "We didn't care if the team moved here from Hartford, we don't care if they win or lose while they're here, and we don't care when or where they'll go if they pack up and leave." — Dennis Rogers, columnist, about the Hurricanes playing in Raleigh after they had moved from Hartford — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.30.06 — "After eight years in the NFL, I'm convinced that the only thing that separates chumps from champions is the individual's competitive drive." — Joe Montana, Hall of Fame football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.29.06 — "As a traveling sportswriter, Death has been a constant companion on the road. This can be vexing, especially when Death gets the aisle seat on airplanes." — Steve Rushin, Sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.28.06 — "The first thing you learn is never to learn their names until the last cut is made. 'Cause you feel bad when they get cut." — Eddie LeBaron, professional football player, referring to rookies in training camp — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.27.06 — "Take away the hot dog and all its attendant comestibles, such as peanuts, popcorn, Cracker Jacks and egg salad sandwiches, and you'd have a different country." — Wells Twombly, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.26.06 — "Sometimes people ask, 'Are hockey fights for real?' And I say, 'If they weren't, I'd get in more of them.' " — Wayne Gretzky, Hall of Fame hockey player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.25.06 — "Baseball is an 1890 game. It's a peaceful afternoon in the country. What baseball needs to compete is more violence." — Bill Veeck, Hall of Fame baseball team owner and racetrack operator — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.24.06 — "It's in the mindset of players and managers to cheat whenever they get a chance. They believe it is the equivalent of their First Amendment right in baseball to cheat." — Durwood Merrill, umpire — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.23.06 — "I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?" — Leo Durocher, professional baseball player and manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.22.06 — "Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control." — Tom Landry, Hall of Fame football coach, alluding to his players — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.21.06 — "Probably a professor of English." — Jimmy Cannon, sportswriter, after being told that fellow sportswriter Gene Ward's house had been burned down, attributable to arson — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.20.06 — "There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental." — Tom Landry, Hall of Fame football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.19.06 — "I have got to make it here. I just can't go back to Louisiana and Arkansas. I've been there and I know what's there." — Lou Brock, Hall of Fame baseball player, about making the major leagues — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.18.06 — "Even though I think I'm mature on the football field, I'm still a kid. If there's a good play, I'll jump up and down on the sidelines." — Gary Parris, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.17.06 — "What does it take to be a good referee? Beats the hell out of me. No one thinks any referee is good." — Richie Powers, basketball official — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.16.06 — "No matter how long you have been playing, you still get butterflies before the big ones." — Pee Wee Reese, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.15.06 — "You're blind! You're a crook! You're robbing me!" — Walter Matthau, actor, to the different umpires and referees who appeared on as many as 15 televisions in his home during his many gambling binges — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.14.06 — "There are two things that made golf appealing to the average man... Arnold Palmer and the invention of the mulligan." — Bob Hope, actor, comedian and golfer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.13.06 — "Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a cold sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?" — Joe Kapp, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.12.06 — "Baseball is so ingrained in Cuba that it has thrived as the 'national sport' through 40 years of bitterly anti-American revolution." — Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.11.06 — "The difference between sports and ballet is that in sports you root for somebody. Nobody yells at one of the ballerinas, 'Break a bleepin' leg, ya bum.' " — Mike Littwin, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.10.06 — "Some kids dream of joining the circus, others of becoming a major league baseball player. I have been doubly blessed. As a member of the New York Yankees, I have gotten to do both." — Graig Nettles, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.09.06 — "If someone ones to get an edge on me, they'll have to search for the cracks themselves. They will have to find that advantage themselves. I'm not going to give it to them." — Chuck Knox, professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.08.06 — "It's good for them. It embarrasses a little, but relieves them a lot. Makes them part of the group." — Vince Lombardi, Hall of Fame football coach, talking about rookie hazing in professional football — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.07.06 — "When we win, I have no idea why we win. When we lose, I have no idea why we lose. I'm totally confused." — George Karl, professional basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.06.06 — "Professional athletes should not be role models. Hell, I know drug dealers who can dunk. Can drug dealers be role models?" — Charles Barkley, professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.05.06 — "In all my years of watching football I can honestly say that I have never once confused football with ballet." — Joan Tisch, wife of NFL team owner Bob Tisch — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.04.06 — "Boxing has been infested with corruption and gangsterism since the day it began, yet it engages our basis emotions like no other athletic activity." — Howard Cosell, broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.03.06 — "I wish to hell I'd never said the damn thing. I meant the effort. ... I meant having a goal. I sure as hell didn't mean for people to crush human values and morality." — Vince Lombardi, Hall of Fame football coach, referring to his famous quote: "Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.02.06 — "Football is unique and good. Where else in life do you see dedication and teamwork and spirit? People enjoy it because it is reassuring to them to see good things. — Woody Hayes, champion college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 03.01.06 — "Every great hitter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. — Ty Cobb, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Page last updated: 07/08/07 01:01 AM