Posted 06.30.04 — "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, Hall of Fame college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.29.04 — "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 06.28.04 — "Listen, I'm a leader. If anyone gives me trouble in a huddle — I don't care who they are — I'm going to sting them." — Terry Bradshaw, Hall of Fame football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.27.04 — "I'll moider da bum." — Tony Galento, heavyweight boxer, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.26.04 — "Mickey Mantle just was everything. At my bar mitzvah I had an Oklahoma accent. And I think I once told my parents, "Play me or trade me." — Billy Crystal, comedian — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.25.04 — "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." — Vince Lombardi, Hall of Fame professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.24.04 — "My father always told me in the midst of adversity, in the midst of a struggle, 'It builds character. Stay strong, be positive, look ahead, don't look back.' " — Bruce Smith, All-Pro football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.23.04 — "You can be sold, traded or released at will. You are carried on the books as a depreciable capital asset and exist like a piece of chattel." — Rick Sortun, professional football player, on the business of sports — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.22.04 — "It relieves the manager of all responsibility except to post the lineup card on the dugout wall and make sure everybody gets to the airport on time." — Red Smith, sportswriter, on the designated hitter rule — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.21.04 — "You can play very well and lose, or play very badly and win. Things can happen. And you know what? That's just the way it goes." — Carl Eller, Hall of Fame professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.20.04 — "Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo." — Tony Kornheiser, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.19.04 — "Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear." — John Madden, champion professional football coach and Emmy-winning broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.18.04 — "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 06.17.04 — "I don't need to hit a home run anymore. I only have to hit a single. I do everything for the team. I just want to win." — Sammy Sosa, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.16.04 — "The prevalent nature of the professional football player is that of soldier of fortune. He's trained and willing to bust people up." — Jim Brown, Hall of Fame football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.15.04 — "Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers." — Merle Kessler, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.14.04 — "Losing is the great American sin." — Jerome Holtzman, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.13.04 — "Baseball is pieces of minutiae that need belaboring." — Bill Sheft, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.12.04 — "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 06.11.04 — "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 06.10.04 — "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball." — Jacques Barzun, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.09.04 — "The Yankees are baseball." — Joe Torre, professional baseball player and manager, on the New York Yankees — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.08.04 — "Baseball is a worrying thing." — Stan Coveleshi, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.07.04 — "Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel. Not just to be as good as everyone else, but to be better. This is the nature of man, and this is the name of the game." — Ted Williams, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.06.04 — "You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time." — Jim Bouton, professional baseball player and writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.05.04 — "Mexican baseball is exactly like American baseball, except for the extraneous embellishments. They work the hit and run and turn the double-play ball, but they don't sell the hot dog." — Peter Golenboch, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.04.04 — "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 06.03.04 — "Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room checked first for a gun. You couldn't take chances with some of those birds." — Casey Stengel, Hall of Fame baseball manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.02.04 — "If the on-deck batter is standing too close to home plate, you brush him back." — Brent Kemnitz, coach of Wichita State, who was suspended for the rest of the season after one of his pitchers ended the career of an on-deck batter by beaning him — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 06.01.04 — "I don't understand what kind of damn radio that can be if you can't get a score of a ball game on it." — Harry Caray, broadcaster, to a taxi driver who only had a dispatch radio in his cab — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]