OK, guys..I love some of these famous lines from athletes, i.e. Joe Willie Namath: "I can't wait until tomorrow because I get better looking every day"..
or Dick (Don't Call Me Richie) Allen:
If cows can't eat it, I ain't playing on it"
I'd like to know some of your favorite pearls of wisdom from athletes--current or former..Thanks.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 11-01-02, 06:57 AM Koz “You're (to a reporter) wrong. Darryl Strawberry is not a dog. A dog is loyal and runs hard after balls." - Hall of Fame Manager Tommy Lasorda big grin
11-01-02, 02:59 PM BobLaz Koz--
GREAT ONE!
Keep 'em coming...
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11-02-02, 12:23 AM niccincoogol Bill James notes in his new Abstract that Graig Nettles was asked about playing on the hard-packed Dodgers Stadium infield during the '77 World Series, to which Nettles said "It's like playing on an unnumbered interstate highway".
11-02-02, 04:32 AM BobLaz NFL Hall of Famer/former G.B. Packer Paul Hornung:
"Never get married in the morning--you never know who you might meet that night."
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11-02-02, 08:53 AM dogspit Here are a few of the highlights of Reggie White's speech before the Wisconsin legislature:
"The United States has gotten away from God, (in part) by allowing homosexuality to run rampant."
"Whites enslaved blacks because their skin color made them stand out in white society. Whites could not enslave American Indians because they knew the territory, and the Indians knew how to sneak up on people."
"You (white) guys do a good job of building businesses and things of that nature, and you know how to tap into money pretty much better than a lot of people around the world."
"Hispanics are gifted in family structure. You can see a Hispanic person, and they can put 20, 30 people in one home."
"Asians are very gifted in creativity and invention. If you go to Japan or any Asian country, they can turn a television into a watch."
11-02-02, 03:38 PM BobLaz Dog--
Let's just be glad--and HOPE-- that Reggie is not/WONT be a MEMBER of any legislature anytime soon...I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that Mr. White is NOT a Rhodes Scholar....
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11-02-02, 03:45 PM BobLaz Legendary knuckleballer Charlie Hough--on former, shaky OF Pete Incaviglia:
"He has a glove contract with U.S. Steel."
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11-02-02, 03:48 PM BobLaz Former Angel Gary DiSarcina--after an 11-game losing streak:
"I feel like the team that plays the Harlem Globetrotters every night."
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11-02-02, 03:51 PM BobLaz Bob Feller--on the hitter that gave him the most difficulty during his career:
"Tommy Henrich, no question. Henrich could hit me at MIDNIGHT with the lights out."
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11-02-02, 03:58 PM BobLaz Nic-
Those Brett quotes were incredible--but par for the course for such a unique player..The last of an era--for sure...
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11-02-02, 04:01 PM BobLaz Wasn't it former SS Garry Templeton who--after an All-Star snub, said:
"If I ain't startin', I ain't departin'?"
11-03-02, 05:49 PM niccincoogol Jim Bouton in "Ball Four" on the ineptness of his 1969 team, the Seattle Pilots:
We were winning the second game 4-0 in the eighth when Fred Talbot, who had a beautiful three-hitter going, got tired. He came out with a runner on base and none out. Disaster set in promptly. First (Pilots manager) Joe Schultz used Locker. Then O'Donoghue, then Segui. Everybody in the Minnesota lineup got a hit. Rod Carew, just off the bus after coming back from his weekend in the army, ran into the stadium, threw on his uniform and, with his fly still unbuttoned, got a hit. I swear they pulled an usher out of the stands and he got a hit. We lost 5-4.
11-04-02, 09:33 AM dogspit "Baseball is the only field of endeavour where a man can succeed three times out of 10 and be considered a good performer." - Ted Williams
11-04-02, 02:36 PM coldfuse "I can't really remember the names of the clubs we went to." - Shaquille O'Neal, when asked if he visited The Parthenon on a trip to Greece
"My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt." - Chuck Nevitt, explaining to NC State Coach Jim Valvano why he seemed nervous at practice
"Top ten." - Karl Malone, explaining his high school class rank after revealing that the class included only eight people.
11-05-02, 05:43 AM Yankees15 Railroaded former Indiana Univ. basketball coach Bobby Knight on spertswriters.
"Everyone learns to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to something else."
Listening to the inane questions asked of Barry Bonds day after day, I would say old Coach Knight may have been on to something there.
11-05-02, 07:37 AM Koz "You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen. " Joe DiMaggio, on Opening Day
"Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical " Yogi Berra
"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster." Joe Adcock
"Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time." St. Louis' Lou Brock
"Jimmy Connors plays two tennis matches and winds up with $850,000, and Muhammad Ali fights for one bout and winds up with five million bucks. Me, I play 190 games, if you count exhibitions,and I'm overpaid!" Johnny Bench
11-05-02, 08:32 AM Texan-In-Exile "Steve McQueen looks good in this movie. He must have made it before he died."
"Always go to other peoples' funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours."
"I really didn't say everything I said." - In The Sporting News, discussing the sayings he has become famous for
"Only in America!" - Upon hearing that a Jewish mayor was elected in Dublin, Ireland
"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."
11-05-02, 09:44 AM teeceeum When asked if he wanted his pizza cut into 4 slices or 8 Yogi replied:
"Better make it four. I don't think I can eat eight."
11-05-02, 04:36 PM BobLaz Famous Quotes Manager Casey Stengel once remarked:
"When I played in Brooklyn, I could go to the ballpark for a nickel carfare. But now I live in Pasadena, and it costs me $15 or $16 to take a cab to Glendale. If I was a young man, I'd study to become a cab driver."
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11-06-02, 09:58 AM coldfuse "I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf." -Tug McGraw, asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf
"Raise the urinals." - Darrel Chaney on how management could keep the Braves on their toes
"The game was closer than the score indicated." -Baseball player Dizzy Dean, after a 1-0 game
11-06-02, 12:48 PM bluezebra The one-and-only Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel:
"Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in."
"Can't anybody here play this game?"
"Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself."
"Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa."
"He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch."
"He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two."
"He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (64 Mets)."
"He (Satchel Paige) threw the ball as far from the bat and as close to the plate as possible."
Leo Durocher:
"I don't care if the guy (Jackie Robinson) is yellow or black, or if he has stripes like a $&^%!*@ zebra. I'm the manager of this team and I say he plays."
"I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules."
"I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes."
"In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you."
"You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it."
Bob
11-06-02, 03:19 PM AndrBarron I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes. -Phil Rizzuto
I've had many years that I was not so successful as a ballplayer, as it was a game of skill. -Casey Stengal
11-06-02, 03:27 PM BobLaz AB, blue:
Great job--- some of these quotes are incredible--keep 'em coming!
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11-12-02, 02:58 PM BobLaz Babe Ruth--when asked about earning more money than President Hoover:
"Why not? I had a better year than he did."
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11-14-02, 02:48 PM BobLaz Former Angel Gary DiSarcina--on why he used the SAME glove for over 10 years:
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