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9780816039814

The Ultimate Dictionary of Sports Quotations

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  • ISBN13:

    9780816039814

  • ISBN10:

    081603981X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-05-01
  • Publisher: Facts on File
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Summary

With more than 3,000 quotes about sports taken from the past to the present, this is the most comprehensive book of its kind. Culled from memoirs, biographies, magazines, newspapers, and more, these selections capture the fun, excitement, commitment, competition, and fierce dedication in athletic sports.

Author Biography

Carlo De Vito is the author of six books and has been an editor at several publishing houses as well as a contributing editor at Consumer Sports, where he wrote cover stories on the Dallas Cowboys, John Daly, and Shaquille O'Neil and features on Greg Norman and Joe Montana

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Notes on This Collection xvii
Entries A to Z
1(300)
Bibliography 301(12)
Index 313

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Excerpts

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, defense, sportsmanship, coaching, gambling, and training.
Quotes include:
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

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