The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations - Hardcover

"* "A winner never quits and a quitter never wins." -Knute Rockne * "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 * "Tennis is my art." -Billie Jean King * "I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out." -Rodney Dangerfield * "Games lubricate the body and the mind." -Benjamin Franklin"

Offering over 3,000 quotes about sports taken from the past to the present, The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations is the first comprehensive volume of its kind. Culled from memoirs, biographies, books, magazines, newspapers, and professional organizations, these selections capture the fun, excitement, commitment, competition, and fierce dedication of athletic sports. Quotations come from athletes, coaches, and sportscasters, as well as non-sports figures such as politicians, writers, and religious leaders. Topics cover professional and college football, baseball, basketball, hockey; lawn bowling, fencing, curling, squash, and much more. Other categories encompass general sports issues such as victory, defeat, offense, sportsmanship, coaching, gambling, and training.