These are actual sports quotes said by various people throughout the world. Oiler coach Bum Phillips: When asked by Bob Costas why he takes his wife on all the road trips, Phillips responded, "Because she is too ugly to kiss goodbye." New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked about the upcoming season:"I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first." And, upon hearing Joe Jacoby of the 'Skins say "I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl," Matt Millen of the Raiders said, "To win, I'd run over Joe's mom too." Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann 1996: "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh: "I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes." Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach: "You guys line up alphabetically by height." and "You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle." Clemson recruit Ray Forsythe, who was ineligible as a freshman because of academic requirements: "I play football. I'm not trying to be a professor. The tests don't seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven't been through in school." Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King: "Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton." Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker: "That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my fucking clothes." Shaquille O'Neal on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece: "I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to." Shaquille O'Neal, on his lack of championships: "I've won at every level, except college and pro." Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota: "He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is." Pat Williams, Orlando Magic general manager, on his team's 7-27 record: "We can't win at home. We can't win on the road.. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play." (1992)
anything by cricket commentator michael holding "I don't believe in leaping. No matter how high you jump, you have to come down"
H.I.L.A.R.I.O.U.S. Also some quotes by Stan Colymore deserve to be here. I'll try to put them in here.
Coach John McKay, Tampa Bac Bucs, the year they went winless in the NFL. When asked by a reporter what he thought of the teams execution, he responded, "sounds like a good idea." McKay should have stayed at Southern Cal. The wonderful Casey Stengel, when pulling a pitcher who stated "I'm not tired" - Casey responded "I'm tired of you." Also, Tim McCarver, who caught Hall of Fame pitchers Bob Gibson and Steve Carlton regularly during his playing career had a few gems on the ferocious Gibson. When a punch and judy hitter would keep fouling pitches off on Gibby, he would look in with that angry face, and hit the guy with the next pitch. According to McCarver, who wouldn't even put the glove up when he saw that - Gibson's reason was, "you want that base that bad? - here it is" and plunk, down would go the PJ hitter. Gibson would promptly strike out the next batter. Another of McCarver's favorites was if Gibson got in trouble early, trailing 0-3, and the score would start mounting to the 4th or 5th inning to, say 1-7, nobody on the Cardinal bench dared to go out and pull him. Finally, when it became absolutely necessary to relieve the mighty righthander, the entire infield, along with the manager would go to the mound. Gibson's remark in those situation's would be - "where the hell you guys been all day, you should have pulled me in the second inning." As for catching Steve Carlton, no funning quotes from McCarver. He always said Carlton never even saw a batter at the plate, he just played catch with the catcher. Finally, this gem from the late old Milwaukee Brave team's star pitcher, Warren Spahn, "You only need two pitches to last in this league. The one their expecting, and the one they ain't."................Stan