Sports Mascots and Team Names
- Commodore, the mascot of Vanderbilt University intercollegiate athletics teams
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Famous quotes containing the words sports, team and/or names:
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“Relying on any one disciplinary approach—time-out, negotiation, tough love, the star system—puts the parenting team at risk. Why? Because children adapt to any method very quickly; today’s effective technique becomes tomorrow’s worn dance.”
—Ron Taffel (20th century)
“There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)