Posted 05.31.06 — "I fought Sugar Ray [Robinson] six times; I only beat him once. This is my sixth marriage and I ain't won one yet, so I figure I'm due." — Jake Lamotta, world champion boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.30.06 — "If a survey was taken, I think you'd find more injuries happen to a quarterback while standing in the pocket than by taking off with a ball." — Steve Grogan, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.29.06 — "Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded, accordion-style, back to full stature without any lasting side effect." — Steve Rushin, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.28.06 — "My job is to win football games. I've got to put people in the stadium, make money for the university, keep the alumni happy, and give the school a winning reputation. If I don't win, I'm gone." — Frank Kush, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.27.06 — "I find that prayers work best when you have big players." — Knute Rockne, Hall of Fame college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.26.06 — "We didn't care if the team moved here from Hartford, we don't care if they win or lose while they're here, and we don't care when or where they'll go if they pack up and leave." — Dennis Rogers, columnist, about the Hurricanes (formerly the Whalers) playing in Raleigh after they had moved from Hartford, CT — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.25.06 — "Every championship, by definition, is historic." — George Vecsey, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.24.06 — "There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both." — James Reston, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.23.06 — "I'd walk into the owner's office to talk contract and I'd say, 'Hi ya, partner.' " — Joe DiMaggio, Hall of Fame baseball player, when asked what he might be worth in today's free agent market — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.22.06 — "The difference between sports and ballet is that in sports you root for somebody. Nobody yells at one of the ballerinas, 'Break a bleepin' leg, ya bum.' " — Mike Littwin, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.21.06 — "Mother, when I get a telephone call from a beautiful girl like Miss Margaret Foot, I must leave at once — remember, Mother, never let a pitch hang." — Tiny Tim, musician and sports fan — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.20.06 — "When you think about it, you've probably spent more time with umpires than you spent with your wife." — Richie Ashburn, broadcaster, to Tim McCarver, broadcaster and former baseball catcher — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.19.06 — "Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified." — George Vecsey, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.18.06 — "What you had was a 39-year-old male, 6-foot-5, in excess of 300 pounds, a healthy individual, took one shot of heroin and basically dropped dead as a result." — Bruce Glassrock, Police Chief of Plano, TX, on the death of professional football player Mark Tuinei — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.17.06 — "No game designed to be played with the aid of personal servants by right-handed men who can't even bring along their dogs can be entirely good for the soul." — Bruce McCall, writer, commenting on golf — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.16.06 — "In his time, George Herman Ruth was a holy sinner. He was a man of measureless lust, selfishness and appetites, but he was also a man undyingly faithful, in a manner, to both his public and his game." — Roger Kahn, sportswriter, on Hall of Fame baseball player Babe Ruth — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.15.06 — "I jumped and skipped around the bases like I was half nuts. Gee whiz, I kept saying, gee whiz! I guess you could call me an 'accidental hero.' " — Bobby Thompson, professional baseball player, who hit the 'Home Run Heard Round the World' that gave the New York Giants the 1951 National League pennant over the Brooklyn Dodgers — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.14.06 — "Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport." — Vince Lombardi, Hall of Fame football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.13.06 — "Rock used to load us down with extra-heavy practice gear. On Saturday, when we climbed into game suits, we felt like four Lady Godivas. Actually we were four pounds lighter on Saturday than on weekdays." — Elmer Layden, Hall of Fame college football player, one of the Four Horsemen, speaking of Knute Rockne, Hall of Fame college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.12.06 — "A man never gets to this station in life without being helped, aided, shoved and prodded to do better. I want to be honest with you; the players I played with and the coaches I had ... they are directly responsible for my being here." — Johnny Unitas, Hall of Fame football player, on the occasion of his induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.11.06 — "It's been a good 'un." — Don Meredith, professional football player and broadcaster, to a fellow passenger when it was thought their flight was going to crash — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.10.06 — "Mickey Mantle had those dual qualities so seldom seen, exuding dynamism and excitement but at the same time touching your heart — flawed, wounded. We knew that there was something poignant about Mickey Mantle before we knew what poignant meant." — Bob Costas, broadcaster, about Hall of Fame baseball player Mickey Mantle — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.09.06 — "Scottsdale Community College teams are called 'The Fighting Artichokes.' That smarty pants name, like the cheerleader in an artichoke costume, is drollery intended to de-emphasize athletics." — George Will, political commentator and baseball aficionado — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.08.06 — "I knew he would have killed me if he caught me." — Cale Yarborough, champion race car driver, about Little Joe Weatherly, after Yarborough put a live, defanged rattlesnake in Weatherly's lap while he was getting ready to race — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.07.06 — "Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time." — Dr. Arnold Mandell, sports psychologist — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.06.06 — "Using one is disrespectful to other players. Any time you get a chance to talk, you should be talking to other players about baseball." — James Baldwin, professional baseball player, about the banning of cell phones in the Chicago White Sox clubhouse — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.05.06 — "Well, I don't think he'd enforce a rigorous curfew." — George Will, political columnist and baseball aficionado, to Roy Firestone, television interviewer, after he was asked what kink of baseball manager Ted Kennedy, U.S. senator, would be — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.04.06 — "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 05.03.06 — "We are here for the purpose to win for the fans. That is who we work for." — Roberto Clemente, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.02.06 — "Whenever you draft, your chances of being wrong are much greater than being right. Every time you take a player, you leave behind six hundred or so others, and chances are that some of them will turn out to be better than the guy you took. No matter how you slice it, the numbers are against you." — Bill Tobin, team executive, on the challenge of deciding on NFL draft picks — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 05.01.06 — "In pro football the college draft is what makes good teams great, as the youngsters imbue a team with their youth and enthusiasm, pushing the veterans to play harder, and sometimes pushing them out." — Peter Golenboch, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

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