Posted 07.31.06 — "Monday Night Football." — Camille Paglia, feminist writer, when asked what was her favorite television show — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.30.06 — "All great fishermen go to bed early." — Ted Williams, Hall of Fame baseball player and world-class fisherman — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.29.06 — "Basketball is the city game." — Pete Axthelm, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.28.06 — "Sport is human life in microcosm." — Howard Cosell, broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.27.06 — "Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme." — Alfred Shrubb, champion runner — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.26.06 — "Life in basketball has a lot of suffering in it." — Pat Riley, professional basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.25.06 — "When I watch myself on film, sometimes I don't even believe some of the things I do." — Walter Payton, Hall of Fame football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.24.06 — "The critics agree the Yale band was two steps faster than Harvard's." — Red Smith, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.23.06 — "You've got to be a son-of-a-##### to play this game right." — Carl Brettschnieder, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.22.06 — "Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best." — Jim Palmer, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.21.06 — "I teach them how to grab the guy's shirt and step on their toes." — Bob Zawoluk, Lehman College assistant basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.20.06 — "He doesn't cook very well." — Michael Chang, tennis champion, when asked to describe fellow tennis champion Pete Sampras's weakness — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.19.06 — "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 07.18.06 — "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man in the world." — Lou Gehrig, Hall of Fame baseball player, as he retired due to the effects of the debilitating disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, which has come to be known as Lou Gehrig's Disease — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.17.06 — "He thinks when I was born I was already 60 years old and had a wooden leg and came here to manage." — Casey Stengel, Hall of Fame baseball manager, referring to Mickey Mantle, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.16.06 — "Vince fears high winds make every forward pass a gamble. To Vincent T. Lombardi, gambling on a football field is a crime against nature." — Red Smith, writing about Hall of Fame football coach Vince Lombardi — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.15.06 — "Nothing." — Ted Williams, when asked what he was thinking about during his last at-bat, when he hit a home run — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.14.06 — "That last one sounded kind of high to me." — Babe Ruth, Hall of Fame baseball player, questioning the umpire about three fast pitches that he had not seen — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.13.06 — "How many other times a year do you get to see dogs with better haircuts than their owners?" — Linda Stasi, journalist, writing about dog shows — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.12.06 — "We're basically a save-the-whales team; we can't turn down big people who can play." — George Young, NFL team executive — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.11.06 — "Managing is getting paid for home runs that somebody else hits." — Casey Stengel, Hall of Fame baseball manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.10.06 — "Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors." — Frank Gifford, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.09.06 — "A life is not important, but for the impact it has on others' lives." — Jackie Robinson, Hall of Fame baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.08.06 — "I am a kicker, but I'm tough. On kickoffs, I'll barrel through there and knock those runners right on my fanny." — Errol Mann, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.07.06 — "It's not the fact that men love football that makes modern woman want to scream ... It's the assumption that she is incapable of loving it, too." — Sally Jenkins, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.06.06 — "How many guys we got in this league — 1,500? Well, that means there are 1,495 guys he can't lick." — Bill Parcells, professional football coach, referring to his kicker, who had told the media he wanted to get in some hits during an upcoming game — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.05.06 — "Rushing the passer is grueling work. It requires a great outlay of speed, strength, energy and determination. A man must drive himself if he is going to break through on every pass play." — Stanley Woodward, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.04.06 — "Fighting has been part of hockey for 50 years. It'll be with us another 50. Count on it." — John Ferguson, professional hockey player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.03.06 — "People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you." — Jesse Owens, track and field Olympic Gold Medalist — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.02.06 — "Some days you want broccoli, other days Hostess Ding Dongs. Don't ask why." — Scott Tinely, champion triathlete — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 07.01.06 — "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...]

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