Posted 12.31.09 — "I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.' " — Frank Layden, NBA executive, former coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.30.09 — "When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1) admit it; 2) learn from it; 3) don't repeat it." — Paul "Bear" Bryant, football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.29.09 — "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, football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.28.09 — "Whenever Rock opened his kisser, the throng became as silent as a tomb." — Harry Grayson, sportswriter, on football coach Knute Rockne — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.27.09 — "Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones." — Darrell Royal, football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.26.09 — "Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude." — Bart Starr, football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.25.09 — "If I ever need a brain transplant, I want one from a sportswriter, because I'll know it's never been used." — Joe Paterno, football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.24.09 — "No excuse in the world counts for squat." — Mark Schubert, swimming coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.23.09 — "That young'un can't be doing that all by himself." — Bum Phillips, NFL coach, who accused Oakland of filling punter Ray Guy's football with helium, because his kicks went so high and deep — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.22.09 — "If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out, and it wouldn't be the monkey." — Lyle Alzado, football player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.21.09 — "Statistics always remind me of the fellow who drowned in a river whose average depth was only three feet." — Woody Hayes, football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.20.09 — "Whatever else I do, I want to always be a kind of ambassador, a preacher for bodybuilding." — Arnold Schwarzenegger, bodybuilder, actor and California governor — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.19.09 — "Most coaches hate preventable mistakes as much as I did. Somebody asked Don Shula if it was a waste of time to correct a small flaw. 'What's a small flaw?' Don wanted to know." — John Madden, football coach and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.18.09 — "It's like a gunfight: When you draw, you don't have time to look, only to react." — Bobby Hammond, football player, about receiving punts and kickoffs — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.17.09 — "When I play lacrosse it makes me feel like I am playing the game with all of my ancestors. It also makes me proud that it was our people who gave lacrosse to the world. For those reasons, lacrosse is more than just a game." — Chief Irving Powless, Jr., Onondaga Nation — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.16.09 — "I awoke to strangely mixed feelings of discomfort and anticipation ... Suddenly my mind cleared, and I remembered that this was the most important day of all, for it was our turn to start on the long slow upward grind that might, with luck, end on the summit of Everest." — Sir Edmund Hillary, mountain climber, first man to reach the top of Everest — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.15.09 — "College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students — there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks." — H.L. Mencken, humorist and author — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.14.09 — "If their IQ's were lower, they would be geraniums." — Russ Francis, football player, on defensive linemen — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.13.09 — "Leaders have a different look from followers. They get it sometime while being potty-trained or tumbling around a kindergarten playroom. ... People who don't get it early never do." — Harvey Manning, mountain climber — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.12.09 — "True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. True motivation is getting people to play beyond their potential." — Rick Pitino, basketball coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.11.09 — "Medicine is just about life and death. Sports is more important than that." — Andrew Edgar, philosopher — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.10.09 — "The solution to any problem — work, love, money, whatever — is to go fishing, and the worst problem, the longer the trip should be." — John Gierach, fisherman and writer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.09.09 — "I ain't ever liked violence." — Sugar Ray Robinson, boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.08.09 — "He can run, but he can't hide." — Joe Louis, boxer, about opponent Billy Conn, before a title bout — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.07.09 — "Being a professional athlete is just being a big kid." — Larry Csonka, football player and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.06.09 — "As a reflection of American life, the most popular sport in America is professional football: brutal, precise, competitive and highly standardized. In football, as in much of American society, the competitor is 'The Enemy,' and the all-consuming passion is to win, often, at any cost." — Dr. Ross Thomas Runfola, sportswriter — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.05.09 — "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." — Joe Theismann, football player and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.04.09 — "That boy in there has a lawyer with him and he doesn't need one." — Unidentified NBA executive, referring to negotiations with then-rookie Bill Bradley, a Rhodes Scholar and future U.S. senator — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.03.09 — "Confidence is a lot of this game or any game. If you don't think you can win, you won't." — Jerry West, basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.02.09 — "The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm and a weak mind." — Dizzy Dean, baseball player and broadcaster — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 12.01.09 — "I hate to lose. Hate, hate, hate to lose." — George Steinbrenner, owner, New York Yankees — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

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