Posted 08.31.08 — "Although he is a very poor fielder, he is also a very poor hitter." — Ring Lardner, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.30.08 — "You were supposed to depersonalize your body; it wasn't your leg, it was 'the leg.' — Rick Sortun, professional football player, on injuries — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.29.08 — "Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire." — George Foreman, professional boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.28.08 — "A champion is someone who can't settle for second best." — Warren Spahn, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.27.08 — "Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die." — Joe Louis, professional boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.26.08 — "Stand on the rubber and read the writing on the mitt. Total focus. Shut the world out." — Jan Reid, sportswriter, about the mental aspect of pitching — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.25.08 — "Look like a winner and act like a champ all the time. If you win, be gracious. Keep your head on." — James Francis 'Jumbo' Elliott, track and field coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.24.08 — "The players tried to take the field, the marching band refused to yield, do you remember what was the deal, the day, the music died?" — Don McLean, musician, American Pie — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.23.08 — "People talk about big targets, but what the passer wants is an open target." — Harold Jackson, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.22.08 — "Sweat plus sacrifice equals success." — Charles O. Finley, Major League Baseball team owner — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.21.08 — "I can buy any one of these sons-of-####### for a $5 steak." — George Weiss, baseball executive, about sportswriters — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.20.08 — "Who knows? Amid world beating hearts, The tumult and the Shouting starts." — Grantland Rice, sportswriter, on hype — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.19.08 — "There's no such thing as a 'presumed' record. It's either a record or it's not." — Seymour Siwoff, sports statistician — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.18.08 — "In a universal sense, football is so insignificant, it's ridiculous." — Pat Hayden, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.17.08 — "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 08.16.08 — "Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved." — Red Smith, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.15.08 — "You've gotta have a lot of little boy in you to play this game." — Roy Campanella, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.14.08 — "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.]

Posted 08.13.08 — "The greatest horror of coaching is losing." — Joe Schmidt, professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.12.08 — "Don't try to perform beyond your abilities — but never perform below them." — Frank Robinson, professional baseball player and manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.11.08 — "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." — Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.10.08 — "Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up." — Bill Vaughn, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.09.08 — "Thrust against pain, pain is the purifier." — Percy Cerutty, Australian Olympic coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.08.08 — "God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own." — Ted Williams, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.07.08 — "I find that prayers work best when you have big players." — Knute Rockne, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.06.08 — "Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part." — Elgin Baylor, professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.05.08 — "Try to exercise, eat better, try to do some fun things with my wife." — Tom Davis, college basketball coach, on his plans after being fired — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.04.08 — "Don't let anyone outwork you." — Attributed to his father by Derek Jeter, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.03.08 — "I am delighted to view any sport that may be safely engaged in." — Charles Dickens, novelist — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.02.08 — "Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd be easier for me if I was a little crazier – and a little more patient." — Bo Jackson, professional baseball and football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 08.01.08 — "If I don't make it to the NBA, I'm gonna be a drug dealer. Somehow I gotta get me a Lexus. Whatever it takes." — Booger Smith, high school basketball player (opening line of the documentary Soul in the Hole) — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

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