Posted 03.20.10 — "When the astronauts walked on the moon, I figured we had a chance to win. Nothing seemed impossible after that." — Tug McGraw, baseball player, describing the 'Miracle Mets' of 1969 — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.19.10 — "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.]

Posted 03.18.10 — "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, college football coach — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.17.10 — "Life is like boxing. You've only got so many punches to throw, and you can only take so many." — George Foreman, boxer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.16.10 — "There's nothing worse than a sorry, pitiful, whining teammate." — Charles Barkley, basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.15.10 — "If (Jack) Nicklaus tells you an ant can pull a bale of hay, don't ask any questions, just hook him up." — Lee Trevino, golfer — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.14.10 — "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 03.13.10 — "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 03.12.10 — "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 03.11.10 — "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 03.10.10 — "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 03.09.10 — "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 03.08.10 — "If the on-deck batter is standing too close to home plate, you brush him back." — Brent Kemnitz, 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 03.07.10 — "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, author — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.06.10 — "How many guys we got in this league — 1,500? Well, that means there are 1,495 guys he can't lick." — Bill Parcells, football 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 03.05.10 — "Gentlemen, you are about to play football for Yale. Never again in your lives will you do anything so important." — Tad Jones, football coach (1909-27), addressing his team — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.04.10 — "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, basketball coach, about Patrick Ewing, basketball player, who played a 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 03.03.10 — "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, basketball player — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.02.10 — "The most difficult aspect of dealing with sportswriters is their assumption of moral superiority. They insist on advising everyone." — Glenn Seaburg, Chancellor, University of Southern California — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

Posted 03.01.10 — "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, baseball umpire — [Get thousands of quotes from Carlo Devito's The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations.]

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