Posted 02.28.06 — "Once a player becomes bigger than the team, you no longer have a team. — Red Auerbach, Hall of Fame basketball coach and executive — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.27.06 — "Well, this year I'm told that the team did well because one pitcher had a fine curve ball. I understand that a curve ball is thrown with a deliberate attempt to deceive. Surely that is not an ability we should want to foster at Harvard. — Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard, 1869-1909, when asked why he wished to drop baseball as a college sport — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.26.06 — "If you see a defense with dirt and mud on their backs, they've had a bad day. — John Madden, champion professional football coach and Emmy Award-winning broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.25.06 — "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 02.24.06 — "Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. — Bill Veeck, baseball team owner — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.23.06 — "Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming 19th century. — Mark Twain, writer and humorist — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.22.06 — "I won't do it on Thursdays because I don't get paid to do it on Thursdays. — Alex Karras, Hall of Fame professional football player, discussing his practice habits — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.21.06 — "Medicine is just about life and death. Sports is more important than that. — Andrew Edgar, philosopher — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.20.06 — "Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put the two of them together and you have a kingdom. — Jack Lalanne, fitness guru — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.19.06 — "I was never a rah-rah guy. I was never one of those guys that went around and rah-rahed. ... Rah-rah don't get it done. — Sparky Anderson, Hall of Fame professional baseball manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.18.06 — "If you have hope, there's light at the end of the tunnel. Hope makes you better. The air in the locker room is different when you have hope. — Dixon Ward, professional hockey player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.17.06 — "As long as my pitchers throw strikes, I'll have patience. But when they start walking people and getting behind — I don't need that. — Lou Pinella, professional baseball player and manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.16.06 — "I've seen him make chicken salad out of chicken feathers many times. — John Brockington, professional football player, about Hall of Fame running back Walter Payton — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.15.06 — "The ball goes through the net, the team gets the two points. A player hardly ever scores by himself. — Ervin 'Magic' Johnson, Hall of Fame professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.14.06 — "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 02.13.06 — "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. — Muhammad Ali, champion boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.12.06 — "Part of the charm of the Winter Olympics is that ice skating and all the rest of those Olympic sports completely disappear for four years at a time. — Dan Jenkins, writer and best-selling author — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.11.06 — "In wrestling you never see anybody get seriously hurt. When was the last time you heard of a wrestler who was out for the season with a knee injury? — Darryl Dawkins, professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.10.06 — "If the doctors had told me that I might die playing football, I'd have asked them what the chances were — 'Give me the odds, Doc" — that's how much I wanted to play. — Jack Youngblood, Hall of Fame football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.09.06 — "I don't look at 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 02.08.06 — "He can take his'n and beat your'n, or he can take your'n and beat his'n. — Bum Phillips, commenting on fellow professional football coach Don Shula — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.07.06 — "Why do I have to talk to these guys who make $6,000 a year when I make $40,000 a year? — Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame baseball player, alluding to sportswriters — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.06.06 — "This community doesn't want academic excellence. It wants a gladiatorial spectacle on a Friday night. — Dorothy Fowler, high school teacher in Odessa, Texas — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.05.06 — "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 football coach and player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.04.06 — "The hardest thing about prize fighting is picking up your teeth with a boxing glove on. — Kin Hubbard, humorist and author — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.03.06 — "Each is the last to learn from fate, That his story is finished — and out of date. — Grantland Rice, sportswriter, on the inevitability of retirement for athletes — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.02.06 — "College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students — there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks. — H.L. Mencken, humorist and author — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 02.01.06 — "Recruiting is like shaving. Do it every day or you will look like a bum. — Anonymous — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

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