Sources Beginning with AHenry AaronAll-time major-league home run leaderI don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron. Making the majors is not as hard as staying there, staying interested day after day. It's like being married. The hardest part is to stay married. You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail. Adamle, MikeNFL running back and sportscasterFootball is the only game you come into with a semblance of intelligence and end up a babbling moron. |
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Adams, Franklin P.JournalistThese are the saddest of possible words,Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. [This brief poem, "Baseball's Sad Lexicon," which appeared in the New York Evening Mail on July 7, 1910, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination: Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance.] Agase, AlexFootball coach It is better to be devoured by lions than to be eaten by dogs.
We spend too much time recruiting and not enough time working with the players we have. Ali, MuhammadHeavyweight champion If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy. I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Congs. I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer - anything but a fighter. In this trade, it's the managers that make the money and last the longest. Allen, DickMajor-league slugger If a horse can't eat it, I don't want to play on it. I once loved this game. But after being traded four times, I realize that it's nothing but a business. I treat my horses better than the owners treat us. I wish they'd shut the gates and let us play ball with no press and no fans. Your body is like a bar of soap. The more you use it, the more it wears down. George AllenNFL coachEvery time you win, you're reborn. When you lose, you die a little. Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude. Football is one-third offense, one-third defense, and one-third special teams. If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing. The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to win in a stadium filled with people who are pulling for you to lose. Allen, KeithPro hockey executiveThere's more violence in one football game than there is in an entire hockey season, and nobody ever talks about that. Allen, PhogHall of Fame basketball coach Well, you can certainly teach free-throwing. And you can teach the boys to pass at angles and run in curves.
Anderson, PaulOlympic champion weightlifterThe guy with the biggest butt lifts the biggest weights. Anderson, SparkyMajor-league managerBaseball is a simple game. If you have good players, and you keep them in the right frame of mind, the manager is a success. The players make the manager. It's never the other way. Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year. A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules. Talent is one thing. Being able to go from spring to October is another. You just got caught in a position where you have no position. Andretti, MarioRace driverThe crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses. My biggest concern during a race is getting bored. The biggest thing I have to combat is falling asleep while going around and around. Andujar, JoaquinMajor league pitcherThere is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, "You never know." Anonymous To make a good football player, one must forget his position as a gentleman.
Arcaro, EddieHall of Fame jockeyThere's no sense in whipping a tired horse, because he'll quit on you. More horses are whipped out of the money than into it. You have to remember that about seventy percent of the horses running don't want to win. Horses are like people. Everybody doesn't have the aggressiveness or ambition to knock himself out to become a success. When a jockey retires, he becomes just another little man. Arledge, RooneTelevision sports executiveSo many sports organizations have built their entire budgets around television that if we ever withdrew the money, the whole structure would collapse. Ashburn, RichieHall of fame centerfielderThe kid doesn't chew tobacco, smoke, drink, curse, or chase broads. I don't see how he can ever make it. Ashe, ArthurTennis championEvery time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it. I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports. Aspromonte, BobMajor league infielderI've heard of guys going 0 for 15 or 0 for 25, but I was 0 for July. Atkins, DougNFL defensive linemanTraining camp is tough, and there's some pain. But it's a good life. It's better than working. Auerbach, RedNBA coachWhen players are used to winning, they put out a little more. |
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