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Title: WINNING WOMAN 500 Spirited Quotes about Women and their Sport by Molly Jay, Edited by Molly Jay ISBN: 0-7624-0943-6 Publisher: Running Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: This book rocks!
Comment: You can tell the author/compilor has a good sense of humor. At least, she does for intelligent readers. Who else would give Anna Kournekova so much space? She covers the lesser-knowns pretty well and tosses in just enough of the big wigs. I like this one. Definitely some zingers in here to counterbalance the "jocks are stupid" theory.

Rating: 3
Summary: Entertaining but uneven collection of sportswomen's quotes
Comment: A nice collection of quotations as befits the title, though some strange choices. Tennis is heavily represented, perhaps as the most successful women's sport as far as catching the public eye. I still don't think Anna Kournikova merits the dozen or so quotes that she's given, and Jay seems to have an obsession about the Bobby Riggs-Billy Jean King match. I never thought it was that big a deal, though I could be wrong.

There are a handful of soccer quotes, though the ones from Mia are not her best. Still an interesting collection, though.

Perhaps my favorite: "We're women who like to knock people's heads off and then put on a skirt and go dancing." - Brandi Chastain.

Rating: 5
Summary: Scintillating, titillating, charming, disarming
Comment: This entry into the world of women athletes, painstakingly compiled by the indefatigable Molly Jay, is the first book that made me laugh out loud, choked me up, and incensed me - all on the same page! This is a roller-coaster of a book, a trip to Funland, and at the price, you should buy one for your car and one for your home.

But seriously, this book has been compiled with a level of care and craft unusual for a book of this kind - or any compilation, be it of an editor's favorite cummings or hooks poems, or of Woolf or Stein's prose. Ms. Jay cannot possibly have been sufficiently compensated for the labor (albeit, clearly, of love) she has put into this work of hers. I only hope that the next time we see her work, she is more clearly reflected by it.

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