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frankbmd
05-29-2016, 09:34 PM
This thread will not cost you a dime, but you will not get a card in the mail either.

To participate, just post a prewar quotation uttered by an athlete, but do not reveal who said it.

You may also provide the answer to any previously posted quotation.

The satisfaction of stumping our panel of experts is worth the price of admission.

To get the ball rolling, let's start with this one

"I couldn't hit an elephant's ass with a bull fiddle."

Leon
05-30-2016, 06:48 AM
Babe Didrikson Zaharias


I will have to find a good quote.....but a funny one was a young teen friend of my daughters. She was on the volleyball court when another team player was chiding her to play better (she was already close to the best on the team). When yelled at to play better she said "hey, I am just trying to make it out here" For this young girl to say that at the time she said it was quite funny. Ya had to be there. But I will find a quote and post later....

frankbmd
05-30-2016, 09:01 AM
''I Always Had More Fun Than Anybody.''

bbcardzman
05-30-2016, 09:25 AM
"If you can do it, it ain't braggin'."

egri
05-30-2016, 09:40 AM
"If you can do it, it ain't braggin'."

Dizzy Dean.

I need to dig up a good quote; I'll post it here when I come up with one.

Laxcat
05-30-2016, 12:46 PM
"I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it."

frankbmd
05-30-2016, 04:38 PM
"I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it."

Hornsby

clydepepper
05-30-2016, 04:46 PM
"What?"






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frankbmd
05-30-2016, 05:08 PM
"What?"






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If that is a new quote, Spaeth is the answer, but you have misspelled it.

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa t?:D

clydepepper
05-30-2016, 05:19 PM
If that is a new quote, Spaeth is the answer, but you have misspelled it.

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa t?:D



No, it's a vintage quote...though I have heard the same thing uttered by 'several' different players in similar circumstances.


The difference on this particular occasion was who said it and to whom he was responding...very specific moment.


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Peter_Spaeth
05-30-2016, 05:25 PM
''I Always Had More Fun Than Anybody.''

Al Schacht

Peter_Spaeth
05-30-2016, 05:26 PM
"I had a better year than he did."

clydepepper
05-30-2016, 05:27 PM
Ruth

frankbmd
05-30-2016, 05:39 PM
"Ruth's balls get smaller faster."

The answer to what question and who said it.

Peter_Spaeth
05-30-2016, 05:47 PM
"Ruth's balls get smaller faster."

The answer to what question and who said it.

It was Walter Johnson being asked to compare Ruth to someone.

clydepepper
05-30-2016, 07:51 PM
"What?"


This was the response Miller Huggins received after blasting his lungs out for the very first time at his star right fielder.

Supposedly, it took Huggins several minutes to finish his part of the conversation.



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clydepepper
05-30-2016, 07:52 PM
"The sun doesn't shine on the same dog's ass every day."





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Peter_Spaeth
05-30-2016, 08:08 PM
"The sun doesn't shine on the same dog's ass every day."





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That has to be Catfish.

MikeGarcia
05-31-2016, 11:57 AM
...... " Sewen Has Always Been My Lucky Numbah".....


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Peter_Spaeth
05-31-2016, 12:51 PM
Not prewar, but "This isn't football, you can't just run a few plays into the line and kill the clock."

Mdmtx
05-31-2016, 01:30 PM
That place is too crowded. Nobody goes there anymore.

Peter_Spaeth
05-31-2016, 01:47 PM
That place is too crowded. Nobody goes there anymore.

Yogi.

Hot Springs Bathers
05-31-2016, 03:35 PM
"Gentleman, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football."

Yoda
06-01-2016, 01:11 PM
Nice guys finish last.

Peter_Spaeth
06-01-2016, 01:17 PM
Nice guys finish last.

Leo.

Yoda
06-01-2016, 01:48 PM
" I hit 'em where they ain't"

Peter_Spaeth
06-01-2016, 01:51 PM
" I hit 'em where they ain't"

Keeler.

Peter_Spaeth
06-01-2016, 01:55 PM
"Gentleman, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football."

That's good. I looked it up but it was not Rockne as I would have guessed.

Hot Springs Bathers
06-01-2016, 02:30 PM
Peter - I have remembered that one with a chuckle since reading a bio on Heisman years ago!

Another case of over-statement, perhaps-

"Gentlemen you are about to play football for Yale. Never again in your life will do something so important." Tad Jones

Peter_Spaeth
06-01-2016, 02:33 PM
Peter - I have remembered that one with a chuckle since reading a bio on Heisman years ago!

Another case of over-statement, perhaps-

"Gentlemen you are about to play football for Yale. Never again in your life will do something so important." Tad Jones

That one I knew and yes, it's a wonderful quote. I think it was before the Harvard game. The Game as it is still called, although now that is beyond overstatement.

Hot Springs Bathers
06-01-2016, 02:49 PM
True. While I have three degrees I would have probably never been allowed to even look around an Ivy campus. I do love the Ivy League though. No level of college football is pure or probably ever has been but I want to think that they do things a little better than most?

Peter_Spaeth
06-01-2016, 02:51 PM
True. While I have three degrees I would have probably never been allowed to even look around an Ivy campus. I do love the Ivy League though. No level of college football is pure or probably ever has been but I want to think that they do things a little better than most?

They can afford to given that they couldn't beat most Texas high school teams. :D

Peter_Spaeth
06-01-2016, 02:52 PM
Perhaps the OP can give us his take on the 1968 game. :)

Hot Springs Bathers
06-01-2016, 02:55 PM
I know they don't draw as well as Texas high school football! Those
Friday night Ivy games shown on NBC Sports draw very small crowds.

Peter_Spaeth
06-01-2016, 03:05 PM
I know they don't draw as well as Texas high school football! Those
Friday night Ivy games shown on NBC Sports draw very small crowds.

Texas high school football is scary.

GasHouseGang
06-01-2016, 03:10 PM
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer."

Peter_Spaeth
06-01-2016, 03:12 PM
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer."

That's Honus.

GasHouseGang
06-01-2016, 03:50 PM
That's right Peter. Here's a different player quote.

"All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock."

I replaced the player's last name with "surname" so as to not hand it to you.

OK, I went back and replaced the word "surname" with the players actual name. You should be able to guess it easily now...

clydepepper
06-01-2016, 05:22 PM
"Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height."






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Peter_Spaeth
06-01-2016, 05:25 PM
"Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height."






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Must be Casey.

clydepepper
06-01-2016, 05:31 PM
"Mongo only pawn in game of life."



:D
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Huck
06-01-2016, 06:37 PM
"Strap, God wants you on the floor."

Huck
06-02-2016, 06:43 AM
"Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet, that was a hell of a pitch."

Peter_Spaeth
06-02-2016, 07:02 AM
"Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet, that was a hell of a pitch."

Spahn about a ball Mays crushed.

Huck
06-02-2016, 07:46 AM
Spahn about a ball Mays crushed.

I believe, Willie's first home run of his career.