Posted 01.31.07 — "Society loves conformists. I'm not a conformist. I'm a big believer in individuality, in freedom." — Pam Postema, female umpire — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.30.07 — "I believe in leadership. And I definitely believe I am a leader. But I believe I lead by example." — Mike Piazza, baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.29.07 — "It is impossible for anyone who does not live in New York to know what it truly is to hate the Yankees." — Murray Kempton, in Back at the Polo Grounds — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.28.07 — "I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?" — Leo Durocher, major league baseball player and manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.27.07 — "If you're a gymnast, something is always hurting, but you still train. You just have to learn to live with discomfort." — Mary Lou Retton, Olympic gold medalist — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.26.07 — "The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan." — Whitey Ford, Hall of Fame baseball player, on Spring Training — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.25.07 — "It's in the mindset of the players and managers to cheat whenever they get a chance. They believe it is the equivalent of their First Amendment right to cheat." — Durwood Merrill, umpire — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.24.07 — "The most difficult aspect of dealing with sportswriters is their assumption of moral superiority. They insist on advising everyone." — Glenn Seaburg, University of Southern California chancellor — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.23.07 — "The reasons I was playing the game have always been the same. The game was all I cared about; it never felt like a job." — Dennis Rodman, professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.22.07 — "You would have to take a stun gun or whatever and shoot him to get him off that court. He's going to leave it all out there." — Jeff Van Gundy, NBA coach, about Patrick Ewing, who played an entire game with a torn Achilles tendon and led his team to a win — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.21.07 — "The only reason I'd go to the NBA is if someone throws funny money – players' money – at me." — Jim Calhoun, college basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.20.07 — "Gentlemen, you are about to play football for Yale. Never again in your lives will you do anything so important." — Tad Jones, Hall of Fame college football coach (1909-27), addressing his Yale team — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.19.07 — "How many guys we got in this league — 1,500? Well, that means there are 1,495 guys he can't lick." — Bill Parcells, NFL coach, referring to his kicker, who had told the media he wanted to get in some hits — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.18.07 — "Statistics always remind me of the fellow who drowned in a river whose average depth was three feet." — Woody Hayes, Hall of Fame college football coach, on the value of statistics — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.17.07 — "In ancient Rome, citizens befuddled by the complexities of the waning empire found in battles waged by the gladiators precisely the simplistic relief from the government problems of their day." — James Michener, Pulitzer Prize winning author — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.16.07 — "If the on-deck batter is standing too close to home plate, you brush him back." — Brent Kemnitz, Wichita State baseball coach, who was suspended for the rest of the season after one of his pitchers ended the career of an on-deck batter with a beanball — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.15.07 — "It relieves the manager of all responsibility except to post the lineup card on the dugout wall and make sure everybody gets to the airport on time." — Red Smith, sportswriter, on the designated hitter rule — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.14.07 — "Playing in the U.S. Open is like tip-toeing through hell." — Jerry McGee, professional golfer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.13.07 — "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 01.12.07 — "I think I'll take another bite of my coffee." — Frank Gifford, Hall of Fame football player and NFL broadcaster, while announcing the famous Ice Bowl game — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.11.07 — "Good sportsmanship and reasonable standards of conduct are important." — Ted Turner, cable TV entrepreneur, baseball team owner and yachtsman — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.10.07 — "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 football and baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.09.07 — "If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work." — William Shakespeare, playwright and poet — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.08.07 — "If (Jack) Nicklaus tells you an ant can pull a bale of hay, don't ask any questions, just hook him up." — Lee Trevino, champion golfer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.07.07 — "There's nothing worse than a sorry, pitiful, whining teammate." — Charles Barkley, professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.06.07 — "Life is like boxing. You've only got so many punches to throw, and you can only take so many." — George Foreman, champion boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.05.07 — "We think TV exposure is so important to our program and so important to this university that we will schedule ourselves to fit the medium. I'll play at midnight if that's what TV wants." — Paul "Bear" Bryant, champion college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.04.07 — "I don't know. I'm not in shape yet." — Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame baseball player, when asked during spring training about his cap size — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.03.07 — "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 01.02.07 — "Running on an artificial leg at full speed is like driving backward at 55 miles per hour, using only you rearview mirror to guide you." — Thomas Bourgeois, champion runner and below-the-knee amputee — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

Posted 01.01.07 — "The two most important things to athletes: playing time and money." — John Paxson, professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo DeVito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations...]

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