Posted 01.31.09 — "The trouble with referees is that they just don't care which side wins." — Tom Canterbury, college basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.30.09 — "The more difficult a victory, the greater the happiness is in winning." — Pelé, soccer player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.29.09 — "I slept like a baby – I woke up and cried every two hours." — Fred Taylor, professional football player, after a loss — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.28.09 — "God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own." — Ted Williams, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.27.09 — "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 01.26.09 — "Citius, altius, fortius ... swifter, higher, stronger." — Olympic motto — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.25.09 — "Looking back, it would be impossible to overstate the impact of sports in my life." — Spike Lee, writer, actor, director — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.24.09 — "I will crush you like a grape." — The phrase Mark Tuinei, professional football player, most liked to tell opposing linemen — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.23.09 — "This team has a chance of going all the way. So did the Titanic." — Jim Murray, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.22.09 — "No sport, save possibly steeplechasing and football, is so good a school ... as polo." — George S. Patton, U.S. Army General — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.21.09 — "Ever to be the best and to surpass others." — Achilles in The Odyssey, by Homer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.20.09 — "Let's face it, women are more interesting than football." — Roy Blount, Jr., writer and humorist — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.19.09 — "Probably a professor of English." — Jimmy Cannon, after learning that the house of fellow sportswriter Gene Ward had been burned down by an arsonist — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.18.09 — "Forget love and Esperanto: The only two international gauges are music and sports." — Steve Rushin, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.17.09 — "The critics agreed the Yale band was two steps faster than Harvard's." — Red Smith, sportswriter, comparing the two schools' marching bands — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.16.09 — "I built my American dream one rep at a time." — Bob Paris, champion bodybuilder — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.15.09 — "A wide receiver just has to be flexible and give the quarterback a break." — Sammy White, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.14.09 — "Character will only take you so far. You've got to have talent." — Karl Malone, professional basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.13.09 — "Freshmen get nothing but abuse... but plenty of that." — Knute Rockne, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.12.09 — "When I watch myself on film, sometimes I don't even believe some of the things I do." — Walter Payton, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.11.09 — "Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it." — Heywood Hale Broun, writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.10.09 — "Games lubricate the body and the mind." — Benjamin Franklin, U.S. patriot, Founding Father and inventor — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.09.09 — "When it comes to football, God is prejudiced — toward big, fast kids." — Chuck Mills, professional football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.08.09 — "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.]

Posted 01.07.09 — "You don't build character without somebody slapping you around." — Vince Lombardi, professional football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.06.09 — "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 01.05.09 — "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 01.04.09 — "If you see a defense with dirt and mud on their backs, they've had a bad day." — John Madden, professional football coach and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.03.09 — "Luck is the residue of design." — Branch Rickey, baseball executive — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.02.09 — "Statistics always remind me of the fellow who drowned in a river whose average depth was only three feet." — Woody Hayes, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 01.01.09 — "I've seen him make chicken salad out of chicken feathers many times." — John Brockington, professional football player, about running back Walter Payton — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

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