Favorite Sports Quotes

[mark evans]

Sorry if this one has been done before.

"Don't ever underestimate the heart of a champion."

Rudy T.

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

"Hit 'me where they ain't."
- Willie Keeler


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[slidekellyslide]

"The name of the game is hit the ball, catch the ball and get the F*****g job done" Lee Elia.

NSFW

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KGcwE4FtGw

[Tobacco&Gum]

Don't give up, don't ever give up.

- Jimmy V

[Peter_Spaeth]

Trying to sneak a fastball by Hank Aaron was like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster. (forget who said it)

He could throw a lambchop past a wolf. (sportswriter about Lefty Grove)

The third one sounded low. (anonymous batter complaining after fanning against Walter Johnson)

He's so good blind people come to the park to hear him pitch. (Reggie Jackson on Tom Seaver)

[VoodooChild]

"Roberto Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania" - Vin Scully.

[sycks22]

"Dave's a killer" "Dave's a mess" Slap shot

"Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains" Crash Davis

[Writehooks]

"Forecheck, backcheck, paycheck."
- Hockey Hall of Famer Gil Perreault, when asked by a neophyte Buffalo sportswriter to name the three most important aspects of the game.

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."
& "He can run, but he can't hide."
- Joe Louis

"You're a white guy -- help me!"
- Heavyweight title challenger Randall "Tex" Cobb to referee Steve Crosson during the fifth round of the horrific beating Cobb took from world champion Larry Holmes in their 1982 title bout.

[brookdodger55]

Originally Posted by VoodooChild

"Roberto Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania" - Vin Scully.

Love that quote

[jerrys]

"Sometimes I still can't believe what I saw," said Harry Hooper, a Boston teammate of Ruth's. "This 19-year-old kid, crude, poorly educated, only lightly brushed by the social veneer we call civilization, gradually transformed into the idol of American youth and the symbol of baseball the world over - a man loved by more people and with an intensity of feeling that perhaps has never been equaled before or since."

[iwantitiwinit]

"Bob, stop upper-cutting"

My Dad 1968

[DeanH3]

[QUOTE=Peter_Spaeth;1239794]Trying to sneak a fastball by Hank Aaron was like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster. (forget who said it)

I believe it was Bob Feller.

I have to go with a Yogi-ism- It's deja vue all over again.

[alaskapaul3]

Shoeless Joe Jackson favorite

"What a hell of a league this is. I hit .387, .408, and .395 the last three years and I ain't won nothin' yet!"

[brookdodger55]

Unknown

If I could see it, I could hit it.

Mike

[Harliduck]

[QUOTE=DeanH3;1239895]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Trying to sneak a fastball by Hank Aaron was like trying to sneak a sunrise past a rooster. (forget who said it)

I believe it was Bob Feller.

It was actually Joe Adcock....

[glenv]

In Toronto, Winfield was charged with cruelty to animals after a throw hit and killed a seagull. When asked about it, Billy Martin responded: "It's the first time he's hit the cutoff man all season."

[Rickyy]

"I ain't goin' on no time machine." - Marvin "Bad News" Barnes - St Louis Spirits... upon being told that he needed to board a team flight scheduled to leave Louisville at 8 a.m. and land in St. Louis at 7:59 a.m.

[detroitbaseball]

"Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life." - Ty Cobb

[digdugdig]

Bill Russell as a analyst commentator for an NBA game, after 2 players went up for a rebound and one got nailed in the groin area...
"I think he took an elbow to the mid section, and that's puttin' kinda high".

[Duluth Eskimo]

"There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first or last time, I owe him my best" Joe DiMaggio

Always been a favorite of mine.

[grainsley]

Harry Neale, coach of the Canucks:

We couldn't win at home, and we couldn't win on the road. My failure as a Coach was that I couldn't think of anywhere else to play.

[sebie43]

"My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable and I'm just ferocious, I want to eat his heart"- Mike Tyson


Sebie

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by sebie43

"My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable and I'm just ferocious, I want to eat his heart"- Mike Tyson


Sebie

I wonder who helped Iron Mike come up with that one back then!

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Originally Posted by sebie43

"My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable and I'm just ferocious, I want to eat his heart"- Mike Tyson


Sebie

I think Iron Mike ended that by saying "I want to eat his children."

[oldjudge]

One of the funniest guys ever to play professional sports was Alex Karras. Here are two of his quotes:

On Tom Dempsey's then NFL record 63 yard field goal to beat the Lions: "We laughed for about 62 yards"

On golf: "My best score ever was 103. But I've only been playing fifteen years."

[Harliduck]

Loved reading this thread...awesome.

Here are some of my favorites -

Rogers Hornsby
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Bob Lemon
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

Reggie Jackson
Fans don't boo nobodies.

George Brett
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

Jackie Robinson
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

Jason Kidd
We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

Charles Shackleford
Left hand, right hand, it doesn’t matter. I’m amphibious.

[ncinin]

"Baseball is dull only to dull minds." Red Barber

[Eric72]

"I watched him take that easy windup. And then something went past me that made me flinch. The thing just hissed with danger."

- Ty Cobb, recalling his first time facing Walter Johnson

[Tabe]

" Great moments... are born from great opportunity. And that's what you have here, tonight, boys. That's what you've earned here tonight. One game. If we played 'em ten times, they might win nine. But NOT THIS GAME. NOT TONIGHT."

-- Herb Brooks pre-game speech before the "Miracle on Ice" game

[Runscott]

"You teach a kid how to be a good loser, and that's what he'll be."

- my friend's Dad

[steve B]

"If I had a ski with a hole in it I'd throw it away" - Franz Klammer commenting on the new (and brief) fad of downhill racing skis with holes at the tip supposedly for better aerodynamics.


"Ferdy big horse. Ferdy attack. Your boys ready?"

~Ferdinand Kübler (1955 TDF, dropping back to team cars taunting the managers.) He had finished second in 54, but in 55 was DNF for stage 12 the day after Mt Ventoux.

And of course this from him after stage 11
"Ferdy's too old. Ferdy killed himself on ventoux".
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"Goodness, I would give several acres of my land to see him back for a fortnight in the peloton. Just a fortnight. He would show all these pussies what it was, racing against Merckx. This guy was unbelievable, my God. They wouldn't have time to bleach their hair or pierce their ears. All they would wanna do is go to bed and rest, I tell you. "


Luis Ocaña in the eighties. Powerful tribute.
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"Vous êtes des assassins! Oui, des assassins!' (French for 'You are murderers! Yes, murderers!'

Octave Lapize to race officials on the Col du Tourmalet in the 1910 Tour de France. The first time going over the big mountains on the Pyrenees.


Steve B

[slipk1068]

"All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height."

Casey Stengel

and on why he chose Hobie Landrith (a 3rd string catcher) as the NY Mets 1st pick in the 1961 expansion draft:

"You gotta have a catcher or you're gonna have a lot of passed balls."

I guess Bob Uecker on the best way to catch a knuckleball is a good 1

"Wait till it stops rolling then pick it up"

and my favorite which I believe is from Andy Coakley and used when he didn't feel like answering a question:

"Being unable to assume an initial premise with any tolerable degree of accuracy, I am loathe to assert a conclusion, fearful lest I should err"

[midwaylandscaping]

"'When you go in the lion's den, you don't tippy toe in — you carry a spear, you go in screaming like a banshee, you kick whatever doors in, and say, 'Where's the SOB?' If you go in any other way you're gonna lose.'"

-Brian Billick, 1/7/01

[the 'stache]

Probably my all-time favorite:

"One time Cool Papa Bell hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second."--Satchiel Page

Another:

"Well, I knew why the Tiger fans threw that garbage at me. What I don't understand is why they brought it to the park in the first place."--Joe "Ducky" Medwick

And one more:

“Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.”--Bob Feller

[Scott Garner]

BEST SPORTS QUOTES YOU'VE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD

"Last year we couldn't win at home and we were
losing on the road. My failure as a coach was
that I couldn't think of anyplace else to play.
- Harry Neale, professional hockey coach

"Blind people come to the ballpark just to listen to him pitch."
- Reggie Jackson commenting on Tom Seaver

"I'm working as hard as I can to get my life and my cash to run out at
the same time. If I can just die after lunch Tuesday, everything will
be perfect."
- Doug Sanders, professional golfer

"All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat
guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.'"
- Mickey Lolich, DetroitTigers Pitcher

"When it's third and ten, you can have the milk drinkers; I'll take
the whiskey drinkers every time."
- Max McGee, Green Bay Packers receiver

"I found out that it's not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty
percent of the people who hear them don't care and the other twenty
percent are glad you're having them."
- Tommy LaSorda ,LA Dodgers manager

"My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget."
- E.J. Holub, Kansas City Chiefs linebacker regarding his 12 knee operations

"My theory is that if you buy an ice-cream cone and make it hit your
mouth, you can learn to play tennis. If you stick it on your forehead,
your chances aren't as good."
- Vic Braden, tennis instructor

"When they operated, I told them to add in a Koufax fastball. They did
but unfortunately it twas Mrs. Koufax's."
- Tommy John N.Y. Yankees, recalling his 1974 arm surgery

"I don't know. I only played there for nine years."
- Walt Garrison, Dallas Cowboys fullback when asked if Tom Landry ever smiles

"We were tipping off our plays. Whenever we broke from the huddle,
three backs were laughing and one was pale as a ghost."
- John Breen, HoustonOilers

"The film looks suspiciously like the game itself."
- Bum Phillips, New Orleans Saints, after viewing a lopsided loss to
the AtlantaFalcons

"When I'm on the road, my greatest ambition is to get a standing boo."
- Al Hrabosky, major league relief pitcher

"I have discovered in 20 years of moving around the ball park, that
the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the
price of the seats."
- Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox owner

"Because if it didn't work out, I didn't want to blow the whole day."
- Paul Horning, Green Bay Packers running back on why his marriage
ceremony was before noon.

"I have a lifetime contract. That means I can't be fired during the
third quarter if we're ahead and moving the ball."
- Lou Holtz ,Arkansas football coach

"I won't know until my barber tells me on Monday."
- Knute Rockne, when asked why Notre Dame had lost a game

"I tell him 'Attaway to hit, George.'"
- Jim Frey, K.C. Royals manager when asked what advice he gives George
Brett on hitting

"I learned a long time ago that 'minor surgery' is when they do the
operation on someone else, not you."
- Bill Walton, Portland Trail Blazers

"Our biggest concern this season will be diaper rash."
- George MacIntyre, Vanderbilt football coach surveying the team
roster that included 26 freshmen and 25 sophomores.

"The only difference between me and General Custer is that I have to
watch the films on Sunday."
- Rick Venturi, Northwestern football coach