Some Good Sports Quotes

[AGENT SHAGWELL]

1987 Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M, recounting what he told a player who received four F's and one D: "Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject."

1996 Lou Duva, Veteran boxing trainer, on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota: "He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is."

1981 Mike McCormack , coach of the hapless Baltimore Colts after the team's co-captain, offensive guard Robert Pratt, pulled a hamstring running onto the field for the coin toss against St. Louis: "I'm going to send the injured reserve players out for the toss next time."

1992 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."

 

[Imnotdutch]

Frank Bruno after losing his world titles to Mike Tyson....

"He was better than I thought" (or something similar)

 

[AGENT SHAGWELL]

"Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious."
Alan Winter.

"I want to gain 1500 or 2000 yards, whichever comes first."
- George Rogers, New Orleans Saints running back

"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
- Danny Ozark, Phillies manager

"If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?"
-Vince Lombardi

"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
-Jason Kidd

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali, quoted in New York Times

 

[Burnboy]

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[Latimer]

1966 Darrell Royal, Texas football coach, asked if the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries this season resulted from poor physical conditioning: "One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for football?"

1991 Steve Spurrier, Florida football coach, telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books: "But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet."

1991 Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins: "He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."

 

[Latimer]

"I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won."
Muhammad Ali.

"If women were meant to play football, God would have put their tits somewhere else."
Gordon Sinclair.

"If at first you don't succeed... So much for skydiving."
Henry Youngman.

 

[AGENT SHAGWELL]

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"If women were meant to play football, God would have put their tits somewhere else."
Gordon Sinclair.

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Screw that shit!!!! Tape them down, and they are just extra padding

 

[Latimer]

LOL!!!

Here's some funnier quotes.

"You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle"
- Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach

"You guys line up alphabetically by height."
- Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach
"This is the greatest country in America."
- Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach

"You can observe a lot just by watching."
- Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach

"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."
- Clemson recruit Ray Forsythe, who was ineligible as a freshman because
of academic requirements

"Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton."
- Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King

"That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes."
- Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker

"I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to."
- Shaquille O'Neal on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece

"I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes."
- Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh

"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
- Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann

 

[GinNJuice]

"I'll moider da bum. "
- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

 

[Hannibal]

Screw that shit!!!! Tape them down, and they are just extra padding

That's my girl.