Posted 10.31.09 — "Managing is getting paid for home runs that somebody else hits." — Casey Stengel, baseball manager — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.30.09 — "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 10.29.09 — "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 10.28.09 — "That last one sounded kind of high to me." — Babe Ruth, baseball player, questioning the umpire about the last of three fast pitches Ruth had not seen — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.27.09 — "Nothing." — Baseball player Ted Williams' response when asked what he was thinking about during his final at-bat, when he hit a home run — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.26.09 — "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 football coach Vince Lombardi — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.25.09 — "He thinks when I was born I was already 60 years old and had a wooden leg and came here to manage." — Casey Stengel, baseball manager, referring to Mickey Mantle, baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.24.09 — "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man in the world." — Lou Gehrig, professional baseball player, as he retired because of the effects of 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 10.23.09 — "He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." — Muhammad Ali, boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.22.09 — "He doesn't cook very well." — Michael Chang, tennis player, when asked to identify fellow tennis player Pete Sampras's weakness — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.21.09 — "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 10.20.09 — "Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best." — Jim Palmer, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.19.09 — "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 10.18.09 — "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 10.17.09 — "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 10.16.09 — "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 10.15.09 — "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 10.14.09 — "Sport is human life in microcosm." — Howard Cosell, broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.13.09 — "Basketball is the city game." — Pete Axthelm, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.12.09 — "All great fishermen go to bed early." — Ted Williams, professional baseball player and world-class fisherman — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.11.09 — "Monday Night Football." — Camille Paglia, feminist writer, when asked to name her favorite television show — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.10.09 — "These are the saddest words – Tinker to Evers to Chance. Picking forever our gonfalon bubble, Causing a Giant to hit into a double, Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble, Tinker to Evers to Chance." — Franklin Pierce Adams, sportswriter and New York Giants fan, describing with a poem the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination of shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers and first baseman Frank Chance — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.09.09 — "That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my #%@# clothes." — Karas Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, who kept a color photo of himself above his locker — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.08.09 — "For years, coaches would not allow athletes to lift weights because it made them look muscle-bound. Now weight training is a main part of almost any team's training program." — Lou Ferrigno, bodybuilder, professional football player and actor — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.07.09 — "Running on an artificial leg at full speed is like driving backwards at 55 miles per hour, using only your 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 10.06.09 — "People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport [hockey] is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be diverted, factoring in all the interruptions." — Wayne Gretzky, professional hockey player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.05.09 — "Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel. Not just to be as good as everyone else, but to be better. This is the nature of man, and this is the name of the game." — Ted Williams, professional baseball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.04.09 — "It's a lot harder to be a football coach than a President. You've got four years as President, and they guard you. A coach doesn't have anyone to protect him when things go wrong." — Harry Truman, U.S. President — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.03.09 — "It's the kind of place where you can be a successful neurosurgeon, but if you were a lousy football player people still look at you funny." — Geno DeMarco, Geneva College football coach, on the school's fans — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.02.09 — "I can sympathize with Canadians whose noses are out of joint. How would Americans feel if the baseball commissioner was Japanese?" — Bob McKenzie, columnist, writing about the Americanization of hockey, which Canadians feel is their national sport — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 10.01.09 — "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.]

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