Posted 05.31.04 — "My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." — Hank Aaron, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.30.04 — "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...]

Posted 05.29.04 — "What's important is that kids discover that baseball is fun — and that it gets to be more fun as you get better at it." — Mickey Mantle, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.28.04 — "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 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.27.04 — "I never throwed an illegal pitch ... Just once in a while I used to toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation." — Satchel Paige, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.26.04 — "I might have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for." — Lou Gehrig, Hall of Fame baseball player, who was afflicted during his playing days with ALS, an incurable disease — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.25.04 — "Jordan's swagger, Gretzky's grace and Elway's determination were not dulled by age or eroded by exposure." — Richard Hoffer, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.24.04 — "You travel around Texas with me, and everyone wants to talk about Nolan Ryan." — George Bush, then-governor of Texas and team owner — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.23.04 — "Baseball's roadside is littered with the careers of terrific rookie pitchers who quickly dissolved in rusty, dented mediocrities." — Daniel Okrent, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.22.04 — "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 05.21.04 — "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 05.20.04 — "A lot of people run a race to see who's fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts." — Steve Prefontaine, champion distance runner and Olympian — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

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Posted 05.18.04 — "I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance between my left ear and my right." — Ben Crenshaw, champion professional golfer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.17.04 — "Talent is God-given, be humble; fame is man-given, be thankful; conceit is self-given, be careful." — Anonymous, quoted often by champion college basketball coach John Wooden — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.16.04 — "I don't look on football as a career. It's a stepping stone. I know too many ballplayers who were lost when opportunity didn't knock on their door." — Frenchy Fuqua, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.15.04 — "The hardest part of any slump is looking up at the scoreboard and seeing your stats in huge numbers." — Jason Giambi, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.14.04 — "Just once I'd like to see a picture of one of these guys with the caption 'He's a dog' underneath it. Ate up $8,000 worth of groceries in four years and can't play worth a lick." — Abe Lemons, college basketball coach, on recruiting — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.13.04 — "It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." — Hank Aaron, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.12.04 — "He talks OK up there with a bat in his hands. A college education don't do you no good up there." — Casey Stengel, Hall of Fame baseball manager, on Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.11.04 — "I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to keep playing baseball." — Pete Rose, professional baseball player and coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.10.04 — "I'm just a ball player with one ambition, and that is to give all I've got to help my club win. I've never played any other way." — Joe DiMaggio, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.09.04 — "He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings." — Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach at the time, John Jenkins — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.08.04 — "The most difficult aspect of dealing with sportswriters is their assumption of moral superiority. They insist on advising everyone." — Glenn Seaburg, college chancellor — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.07.04 — "Great stars that knew their days in fame's bright sun. I heard them trampling to oblivion." — Grantland Rice, legendary sportswriter, on the fleeting nature of fame — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.06.04 — "Don't try to perform beyond your abilities — but never perform below them." — Frank Robinson, manager and Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.05.04 — "I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can." — Babe Ruth, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.04.04 — "There were days when Mickey Mantle was so good that we kids would bet that even God would want his autograph." — Bob Costas, broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.03.04 — "There is nothing harder to do in all of sports than hitting a home run." — Ted Williams, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.02.04 — "Willie Mays was my boyhood 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 05.01.04 — "There is no room in baseball for a clown." — Chuck Dressen, professional baseball manager, to Bob Uecker, professional baseball player and later broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]