If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

—Phyllis Diller

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About Phyllis Diller

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Phyllis Ada Diller (née Driver; July 17, 1917 – August 20, 2012) was an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician and visual artist, noted for her eccentric stage persona, characterized by her self-deprecating humor, wild hair and clothes, and exaggerated, cackling laugh.

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The reason women don't play football is because eleven of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

—Phyllis Diller

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

—Phyllis Diller

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up.

—Phyllis Diller

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

—Phyllis Diller

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A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

—Phyllis Diller

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More quotations tagged with “sports”

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.

—Joe Theismann

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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

—Heywood Broun

For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name,
He marks-not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game.

—Grantland Rice

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

—Bill Shankly

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History

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