Posted 08.31.04 — "Winning is like shaving. You do it every day, or you end up looking like a bum." — Jack Kemp, professional football player and U.S. congressman — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.30.04 — "The box score always adds up — politics never does." — James Reston, journalist and author — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.29.04 — "Good things happen to those who hustle." — Chuck Noll, Hall of Fame professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.28.04 — "No one can guard me one-on-one. I'm not afraid of anyone in this league." — Allen Iverson, professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.27.04 — "The trouble with referees is that they just don't care which side wins." — Tom Canterbury, college basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.26.04 — "I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating." — Jim Fink, NFL team executive — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.25.04 — "The only players I hurt with my words are ones with inflated opinions of their ability." — Bill Parcells, NFL head coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.24.04 — "The will to win is grossly overstated. The will to prepare is far more important." — Bobby Knight, Hall of Fame college basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.23.04 — "If you make plays and the team wins, the fans will be fine. I don't worry about the fans." — Donavan McNabb, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.22.04 — "There's a lot of people in this sport that live through their kids. We'll never do that." — Jack Lipinski, father of Olympic gold medalist figure skater Tara Lipinski — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.21.04 — "I could beat on other kids and steal their lunch money and buy myself something to eat. But I couldn't steal a father. I couldn't steal a father's hug when I needed one." — Bo Jackson, professional baseball and football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.20.04 — "There are two kinds of football coaches. The kind that have just been fired and the kind that are going to get fired." — Bum Phillips, professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.19.04 — "The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think." — Paul "Bear" Bryant, Hall of Fame college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.18.04 — "All right, no limping. If you have to limp, don't scrimmage. If you want to scrimmage, don't limp." — Red Blaik, Hall of Fame college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.17.04 — "My college playbook was like a Dr. Seuss book. With the 49ers, it's like a cookbook." — Terrell Owens, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.16.04 — "Luck means a lot in football. Not having a quarterback is bad luck." — Don Shula, Hall of Fame football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.15.04 — "The player who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all." — Lou Gehrig, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.14.04 — "When he didn't remember our anniversary, I knew he was OK." — Lisa McCaffrey, wife of professional football player Ed McCaffrey, referring to her husband's concussion — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.13.04 — "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 08.12.04 — "I could sell drugs for a living because I'm a hustler. But why sell drugs and go to prison when I can sell tickets?" — Cleveland Chris, scalper — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.11.04 — "The (New York) Yankees are only interested in one thing, and I don't know what it is." — Luis Polonia, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.10.04 — "Lifting a barbell ain't like eating no watermelon." — Toad, U.S. Olympic weightlifter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.09.04 — "Individual commitment to a group effort, gentlemen, that's what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." — Vince Lombardi, Hall of Fame football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.08.04 — "Observing team sports, teams of adult men, one sees how men are children in the most felicitous sense of the word." — Joyce Carol Oates, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.07.04 — "When I come back, I want to be re-incarnated as a dolphin — or as an F-16." — Bo Jackson, professional baseball and football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.06.04 — "First time I ever slept on my back. Had to, or that medal would have cut my chest." — Muhammad Ali, world champion boxer, on winning a gold medal in the Olympics — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.05.04 — "If I ever need a brain transplant, I want one from a sportswriter, because I'll know it's never been used." — Joe Paterno, champion college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.04.04 — "I'm not much of a golfer. I don't have any friends. And, all I like to do the day of a game is go home and be alone and worry about ways not to lose." — Paul 'Bear' Bryant, Hall of Fame college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.03.04 — "Football is the closest thing we have to the Christians and the lions." — Dan Jenkins, best-selling author — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.02.04 — "You'll know, because you'll be looking out of your ear hole." — Ronnie Barnes, NFL trainer and East Carolina grad, to player David Meggett, referring to what is known in the league as 'an official NFL hit' — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 08.01.04 — "The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." — Roger Bannister, first athlete to run the mile in under four minutes — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

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