Posted 07.31.03 — "I believe in leadership. And I definitely believe I am a leader. But I believe I lead by example..." — Mike Piazza, baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.30.03 — "Society loves conformists. I'm not a conformist. I'm a big believer in individuality, in freedom..." — Pam Postema, female umpire — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.29.03 — "Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but ain't no man got to be common..." — Satchel Paige, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.28.03 — "Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off..." — Chi Chi Rodriguez, champion professional golfer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.27.03 — "When I watch myself on film, sometimes I don't even believe some of the things I do..." — Walter Payton, Hall of Fame football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.26.03 — "You wolves been howling for blood all year. Maybe this'll shut you up..." — John King, professional baseball player, as he threw fifty chunks of meat into the stands — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.25.03 — "Sport is a right of the people..." — Fidel Castro, communist dictator of Cuba — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.24.03 — "I don't like money, but it quiets my nerves..." — Joe Lewis, champion boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.23.03 — "Things are never quite a good as they seem. Things are never quite as bad as they seem. In between falls reality..." — John Calipari, college and professional basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.22.03 — "Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster..." — Curt Simmons, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.21.03 — "Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away..." — Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.20.03 — "That boy is too clumsy and too slow..." — Branch Rickey, baseball executive, on then-unknown prospect Yogi Berra — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.19.03 — "I despise losing and would do anything to avoid it..." — Michael Jordan, professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.18.03 — "When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch..." — Ty Cobb, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.17.03 — "I am a rich man. Just look at my arms. All of my money is in my veins..." — Earl Manigault, Harlem playground basketball legend and ex-convict, on his drug history — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.16.03 — "Willie Mays was my childhood hero, but not because he was a great baseball player. Because he had a big house..." — O.J. Simpson, Hall of Fame football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.15.03 — "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a show off. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am..." — Howard Cosell, broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.14.03 — "Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport..." — Phillip K. Wrigley, baseball team owner — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.13.03 — "I don't need to be practicing, I'm leading this tournament. You guys go on and practice, because you're behind..." — Lee Trevino, champion golfer, to fellow competitors after a good first round — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.12.03 — "A lot of parents think kids ought to learn responsibility from work, and I've always said, 'Baloney.' Kids learn leadership and organization from games, from having fun..." — John Madden, professional football coach and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.11.03 — "A guy strung out on cocaine cares about setting an example for kids? He cares about stuffing his nose with cocaine. Period..." — Jim Brown, Hall of Fame football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.10.03 — "When you're ten, eleven, and twelve, the most important lesson you can have in sports is to have fun..." — Grant Hill, professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.09.03 — "When all is said and done, as a rule, more is said than done..." — Lou Holtz, college and professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.08.03 — "Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm..." — Publius Syrus, writer, first century B.C. — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.07.03 — "If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat..." — Herschel Walker, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.06.03 — "In this country, when you finish second, no one knows your name..." — Frank McGuire, champion basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.05.03 — "You couldn't play on my Amazing Mets without having held some kind of record, like one fella held the world's international all-time record for a pitcher getting hit on the ankles..." — Casey Stengel, Hall of Fame baseball manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.04.03 — "My family is the most important thing to me. I love basketball, but I need my family around me..." — Karl Malone, all-star professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.03.03 — "When the astronauts walked on the moon I figured we had a chance to win. Nothing seemed impossible after that..." — Tug McGraw, all-star pitcher, describing the 'Miracle Mets' of 1969 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.02.03 — "Sports is the toy department of human life..." — Howard Cosell, broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.01.03 — "Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones..." — Darrell Royal, Hall of Fame college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

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