21.   Muhammad Ali stripped him of that con, so he quit the game.

22.   Plagued by shoulder problems, he quit the game and became a carpenter, a trade he worked for the next seven years.

23.   Owners ran their franchises like plantations and players had no control whatsoever over their economic destiny except to quit the game in protest.

24.   Reluctantly, Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins decided to quit the game after an operation revealed irreversible damage to the retina in his right eye caused by glaucoma.

25.   Scolding and physical corrections tend to make Fido quit the game.

26.   So torturous an experience at the outset that McGhee at one point entertained thoughts of quitting the game and moving back home to suburban Chicago.

27.   The Bears are still a rough, hard-working team that has yet to quit a game this season.

28.   The left-hander nearly quit the game for a number of reasons, including the perceived ridicule of a newspaper columnist and a foul-mouthed fan.

29.   This week on ESPN Bonds revealed that he almost quit the game because of the reaction.

30.   After five league titles in six years and an eight month ban for kicking a fan, talented yet volatile French soccer star Eric Cantona quit the game Sunday.