Phyllis Orlikoff Flug

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."

Wayne Gretzky

"A lifetime of training for just ten seconds."

Jesse Owens

"A major league baseball team is a collection of 25 youngish men who have made the major leagues and discovered that in spite of it, life remains distressingly short of ideal."

Roger Kahn

"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught."

Ambrose Bierce

"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records."

William A. Ward

"All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity."

Gordie Howe

"Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart."

Phil Jackson

"Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win."

Doug Collins

"Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts."

Phil Jackson

"As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day."

Michael Jordan

"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round."

Ben Hogan

"Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns."

John Leonard

"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."

George Bernard Shaw

"Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball."

Jim Murray

"Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on."

Peter Ueberroth

"Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off."

Bill Veeck

"Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast."

Joe Garagiola

"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer."

Ted Williams

"Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?"

Jim Bouton

"Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up."

Red Auerbach

"Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams."

Roger Kahn

"Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins."

Dan Quayle

"Boxing has become America's tragic theater."

Joyce Carol Oates

"Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed."

Roger Kahn