Sports Quotes & Phrases

[daus42]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcnFbCCgTo4

Robin Williams on golf

Great bit!!!

 

[RUlookingup]

John Wooden

“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”

 

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Mia Hamm

“I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.”

 

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Michael Jordan

“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”

 

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Joe Paterno

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.”

 

[mwmnpa]

I'm not so mean. I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.


Dick Butkus

 

[mwmnpa]

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

Mike Tyson

 

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Casey Stengel

"Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking

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."

"Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa

"As great as the other men were on the ball club, there comes a time when you get a weakness and it might be physical."

"He (Lyndon B. Johnson) wanted to see poverty, so he came to see my team (1964 New York Mets)."

"He (Satchel Paige) threw the ball as far from the bat and as close to the plate as possible

"Kid (Phil Rizzuto) you're too small. You ought to go out and shine shoes

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games."

"This club (1969 New York Mets) plays better baseball now. Some of them look fairly alert."

"We've (1962 New York Mets) got to learn to stay out of triple plays."

"(Mickey) Mantle had more ability than any player I ever had on that club."

 

[NattyBumppo]

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

Alex Karras

 

[NattyBumppo]

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

George Allen

 

[NattyBumppo]

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammed Ali

 

[daus42]

I am the most loyal player money can buy.

-Don Sutton, Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics and California Angels

 

[daus42]

This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria....I saw her snatch this morning and it was amazing.

-Pat Glenn - Weightlifting commentator

 

[Morrigu]

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Billie Jean King

 

[daus42]

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."

 

[NattyBumppo]

Well, (Ann) brought a tree and bought Christmas packages for the whole world, and what she didn't buy, she charged. I'm the only one to lose money at a bowl.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

Bobby Bowden

 

[NattyBumppo]

Terry Bradshaw couldn't spell cat if you spotted him the c and the t.

Thomas Henderson

 

[NattyBumppo]

Three or four plane crashes and we're in the playoffs.

John McKay

 

[daus42]

"If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play the game as I did when I was a kid."

Tom Watson

 

[NattyBumppo]

I don't know if I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.

Joe Namath

 

[daus42]

I don't know if I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.

Joe Namath

I thought Tug McGraw said that.

 

[NattyBumppo]

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately—unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

Dick Butkus

 

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Bobby Knight

Everybody hears, but few listen.

It's always been my contention that you can do a lot more to develop mental quickness than you can physical quickness. Physical quickness, for the most part, is something that you either have or don't have.

"I told him to take a picture of his testicles so
he'd have something to remember them by
if he ever took another shot like the last one."

 

[daus42]

I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out.

Rodney Dangerfield

 

[NattyBumppo]

I thought Tug McGraw said that.

Here's what I've found: Two sites that give it to Joe Willie and one that says that Tug said something similar. I wonder if Tug lifted it from Joe.

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

Woody Hayes