Sports Quotes & Phrases

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

thinkexist has Namath and I trust that site. As an eleven year old Baltimore Colt fan I hated him for years.....but got over it. Colts moving to Indie- never!!!

So from his infamous interview.........

“I want to kiss you.”

Joe Namath
 
I didn't read all the threads so sorry if this is a massive repeat.

"He could go all the way!" Chris Berman.
 
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Muhammad Ali
 
Lou Gehrig

Tonight I stand here overwhelmed as my name is linked with the great and courageous Lou Gehrig. I know that if Lou Gehrig is looking down on tonight's activities, he isn't concerned about someone playing one more consecutive game than he did. Instead he's viewing tonight as just another example of what is good and right about the great American game." - Cal Ripken, Jr., Baltimore Orioles, address to crowd in Camden Yards the night he broke the consecutive games played record. The crowd began to chant, "Lou, Lou."

What a wonderful fellow that Gehrig was! Always hustled. Never gave a moment's trouble. Just went out every day and played his game and hit the ball." - Joe McCarthy, Yankee Manager during the last half of Gehrig's career.
 
On this team, we are all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
-- Lou Holtz
 
On this team, we are all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
-- Lou Holtz

that is hilarious but so true!!!!

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.

Lou Holtz
 
that is hilarious but so true!!!!

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.

Lou Holtz

lol..

This guy was riot

They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
-- Lou Holtz

:D
 
Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
-- Bill Vaughn
 
Hank Stram

“The receivers are an integral part of the passing game.”



“My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.”



“All the Raiders came to the Coliseum carrying their luggage. They were packed and ready to go to New Orleans right after the game.”
 
John Madden

“Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.”

“The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.”

“Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.”

“If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.”

“When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.”

“Hey, the offensive linemen are the biggest guys on the field, they're bigger than everybody else, and that's what makes them the biggest guys on the field.”

“Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.”
 
Clark Gillies (Islanders enforcer)

Reporter: "Clark, I hear you are from Moose Jaw. Can you tell me where that is"
Gillies: "Oh, about five feet from the Moose's rear."
 
Basketball

“When you’re playing him it’s like going through the tunnel of love. All you feel is hands, knees and elbows all over you.”
--Walt Frazier, on why Jerry Sloan of the Chicago Bulls was a tough defensive guard


"The greatest play I've ever seen was one of the last games of the 1966-67 season and were playing Baltimore. We [Philadelphia] were going for the best record in NBA history. There was a play earlier in the game where Gus Johnson had dunked one over Wilt. Gus was a very strong player. I weighed 220 pounds, and with one hand Gus could push me out of the lane. The man was a physical specimen [6-foot-6, 230 pounds], all muscle. He loved to dunk and was a very colorful player. When he slammed it on Wilt, he really threw it down, and you could tell that Wilt didn't like it one bit.
Later in the game, Gus was out on the fast break, and the only man between him and the basket was Wilt. He was goin to dunk on Wilt--again. Gus cupped the ball and took off--he had a perfect angle for a slam. Wilt went up and with one hand he grabbed the ball--cleanly! Then he took the ball and shoved it right back into Gus, drilling Gus into the floor with the basketball.
Gus was flattened and they carried him out. It turned out that Gus Johnson was the only player in NBA history to suffer a dislocated shoulder from a blocked shot."

--Billy Cunningham


"I still remember the time when one of our strongest men, Gene Conley, decided to fight Chamberlain for the ball. He grabbed it and hung on and Chamberlain just lifted him and ball right up towards the rim."

-- Bill Russell

If [the referee] is calling [the game] loose then everyone gets away with more. So, you have to handle your own man accordingly, unless it's Wilt Chamberlain. Him, you just don't handle. He's too strong. The best you can do is make him work hard."
-- Bill Russell

"I had a habit of getting a running start toward the boards on every shot. Wilt used to zone it up and he'd be standing under the basket on most possessions. After I had run up his back a couple of times on made shots, Wilt gave me an ultimatum with that deep, deep voice.
'Tamjanovich, don't come in here anymore.'
'Wilt, I've got to do my job,' I responded.
Let me just say that I didn't make that statement with a lot of conviction. After all, I happened to be talking to one of the strongest men in the world. Late in the game, I went barreling in to grab a loose ball. Wilt grabbed my arm and was called for a foul. As I was starting downcourt, Wilt wouldn't let my arm go. He spun me around and said, 'I told you not to come in here anymore.'
At that tenuous juncture, I threw a finger up into Wilt's face and he let me go. When I got back to the bench, everybody was saying how great it was that I had stood up to Wilt.
But what I was really saying--and I never told my teammates this--was, "Please give me one more chance."

--Rudy Tomjanovich
 
Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.

Paul Harvey
 
"Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines."
-Enzo Ferrari
 
The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.
~Author Unknown
 
Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.

William A. Ward
 
From Cool Runnings (aka the Best Sports Movie EVAH at our house.):


Sanka: Let me tell you something rasta, I didn't come up here to forget who I am and where I come from.

Derice: Neither did I, I'm just trying to be the best I can be

Sanka: So am I, and the best I can be is Jamaican. Look, Derice...I've known you since Julie Jeffreys asked to see your ding-a-ling and I'm telling you as a friend if we look Jamaican, walk Jamaican, talk Jamaican and IS Jamaican, then we sure as hell better bobsled Jamaican.
And one more from the same movie...
Irv: Derice, a gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it.

Derice: Hey coach, how will I know if I'm enough?

Irv: When you cross that finish line, you'll know.

And from a conversation with an Australian buddy about cricket.. He was trying to explain the scoring system....

Me: sounds complicated

Sexy Australian buddy: Well yeah, if it was easy, it'd be baseball.
 
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