Posted 07.31.05 — "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 07.30.05 — "Some days you want broccoli, other days Hostess Ding Dongs. Don't ask why." — Scott Tinley, champion triathlete — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.29.05 — "Someday they're gonna write a blues song just for fighters. It'll be for slow guitar, soft trumpet and a bell." — Sonny Liston, champion boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.28.05 — "I ain't ever liked violence." — Sugar Ray Robinson, champion boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.27.05 — "My toughest fight was with my first wife." — Muhammad Ali, champion boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.26.05 — "I am not a victim. I am a survivor." — Lance Armstrong, champion cyclist and cancer survivor — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.25.05 — "Sports owners have always been scum. Players have always been greedy. The average fan has always been treated like crap." — Mike Lupica, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.24.05 — "Karas always has been ready on Sundays, keyed up so intensely that he vomits just before kickoff time." — Myron Cope, sportswriter, on professional football player Alex Karas — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.23.05 — "More than any other individual, (champion boxer) Jack Dempsey created big-time sports in America." — Roger Kahn, best-selling writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.22.05 — "I broke into Hollywood the old-fashioned way: I knew somebody." — Jim Brown, Hall of Fame professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.21.05 — "When I can't play tennis anymore, I'll die." — Bill Tilden, champion tennis player, who played the day before he died — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.20.05 — "You play the way you practice." — Pop Warner, Hall of Fame college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.19.05 — "A saloon keeper from Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania." — Red Smith, sportswriter, describing Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Namath — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.18.05 — "I miss football so much — heck, I even miss the interceptions." — Archie Manning, broadcaster and former professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.17.05 — "If you really want to enjoy the game and understand it, you've got to score it." — Warner Fuselle, broadcaster, on baseball score cards — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.16.05 — "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 07.15.05 — "Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. — Ray Knight, professional baseball player and manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.14.05 — "If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out, and it wouldn't be the monkey." — Lyle Alzado, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.13.05 — "I don't know. I'm not in shape yet." — Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame professional baseball player, when asked during spring training what his cap size was — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.12.05 — "Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can win, you won't." — Jerry West, Hall of Fame basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.11.05 — "The hardest part of losing is knowing you have failed those who are depending on you." — Johnny Roach, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.10.05 — "Mickey was like Marilyn Monroe. He didn't have to be the greatest ballplayer. He had that charisma." — Hank Aaron, Hall of Fame baseball player, about fellow Hall of Fame baseball player Mickey Mantle — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.09.05 — "Nobody trained like Joe Louis. He always wore white knit trunks with a white tank top and black boxing shoes with white socks. He was all business." — Lou Duva, Hall of Fame Trainer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.08.05 — "I've seen him make chicken salad out of chicken feathers many times." — John Brockington, professional football player, about NFL running back Walter Payton — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.07.05 — "Statistics always remind me of the fellow who drowned in a river whose average depth was only three feet." — Woody Hayes, Hall of Fame college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.06.05 — "Luck is the residue of design." — Branch Rickey, Hall of Fame baseball executive — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.05.05 — "If you see a defense with dirt and mud on their backs, they've had a bad day." — John Madden, champion professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.04.05 — "This series is fixed. You can have it — I'm going to the race track." — Champ Pickens, promoter, about the 1919 World Series — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.03.05 — "When I can't play tennis anymore, I'll die." — Bill Tilden, champion tennis player, who played the day before he died — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.02.05 — "You don't build character without somebody slapping you around." — Vince Lombardi, Hall of Fame football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.01.05 — "My high comes from victory. Sports are my drugs." — Jean-Claude Killy, Olympic gold medalist skier — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

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