Aside from cliches like: "They're the better team on paper but the game's not played on paper it's played on grass", and people 'mis-speaking' themselves: "They're just men the same as us, we've all got two arms and two heads." - what do you reckon are the best sporting quotes? I still think you have to go a long way to beat the immortal Bill Shankly quote: "Some people think football's a matter of Life and Death. They're wrong of course - it's far more important than that."
“The secret of good golf is to hit the ball hard, straight and not too often†I don't recall who said that.
Alan Hansen 'You can't win anything with kids' speaking about Man Utd's young team that went on to win the treble etc
Good one! Talking of golf I also like Gary Player's one when someone called him 'lucky' after he'd chipped the ball in from a bunker: "Yes, I'm lucky. And do you know what? The more I practise the luckier I get."
I always love when some sports meat-head says something like: "We're going to go out there and do our best." Oh? or "We still have to play the games." Really? or When after a couple weeks of the MLB season, someone says: "It's a long season. Anything could happen." Oh, that's a first.
Well, this might not have been meant as a sporting quote, but my parents told me something one of their professors said in college just before final exams, and I think it applies: "There is still time to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat." Joe Montana and other great clutch players must have lived by that one.
Mike Tyson in an interview. Lady: (begins to ask a question) Mike: *interrupting* "Excuse me, are you talking out of turn?" Lady: "No we are all speaking out" Mike: "O'well I usually don't interview with women unless I fornicate with them first. So you probably shouldn't talk unless you want to...you know..." Well hell, Ill let you guys watch this idiot make a fool of himself. There are more funny ones in this video. http://www.break.com/index/compilation_of_funniest_tyson_quotes.html
I can't remember if it was Bill Shankly or Matt Busby who said: "You need three Scotsmen in your team otherwise you won't win anything. Any more than that and you've got a problem."