Sports Quotes & Phrases

[daus42]

I haven't found any threads that covers sports quotes and phrases. Since sports competition brings out the best AND the worse in human nature I'd thought this might be fun.

One person that immediately come to mind with memorable quotes is Yogi Berra. So I'll start this with a couple from him:

It's like deja-vu, all over again.
Yogi Berra

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra

 

[NattyBumppo]

Nice guys finish last.

Leo Durocher

If you lose this game you will take it to your fucking grave. To your fucking grave.

Herb Brooks

 

[daus42]

Nice guys finish last.

Leo Durocher

If you lose this game you will take it to your fucking grave. To your fucking grave.

Herb Brooks

They don't make them like Durocher anymore!!!

 

[de-valmont]

"Hey Tuffnel, can I borrow your brain, I'm building an idiot"

Austrailian fan to Phil Tuffnel, English finger spin bowler during an ashes tour of Australia.

 

[sexphene1]

YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME!.... HELLO?!

Herm Edwards

 

[Roxanne_Smith69]

"Sports is the toy department of human life." Howard Cosell

Rox

 

[de-valmont]

Another cricket one.

Glenn McGrath, to Otto Brandes, tubby South African no. 11, after a 85 mph
delivery whistles past OB's chin : Why are you so fat?

Brandes : Because every time I fuck your wife, she gives me a biscuit.

 

[sexphene1]

"Both teams played hard"
reporter: do you like how you guys performed?
"Both teams played hard"
reporter: what did you guys do tonight to win?
"both teams played hard"
reporter: are yuo guys going to win the series?
"both teams played hard"

-- Rasheed Wallace in the 2005 NBA playoffs

 

[smotherman]

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

James Patrick Murray

 

[Kingofmycastle]

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance. ~George Foreman

 

[Bad_Thad]

"You can't make chicken soup out of chicken shit." - Head coach that I assist with summarizing a video by the late, great, Jim Valvano.

 

[Roxanne_Smith69]

"The other teams could make trouble for us if they win. " -- Yogi Berra

Fox

 

[msmaggie]

If you ain't first, you're last. ~ Ricky Bobby

 

[Cathleen]

"Havlicek stole the ball! Havlicek stole the ball! It's all over! It's all over!"

Beloved Boston Celtic's radio announcer, Johnny Most, "High above courtside."


"Just do what you do best."

Red Auerbach

 

[daus42]

I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter.

~Michael Ventre

 

[Cathleen]

I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter.

~Michael Ventre

That's great. Big smiles here, thanks.

 

[NattyBumppo]

(Sorry, Stilts)

Well, I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

Crash Davis

 

[daus42]

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.

Rita Rudner

 

[NattyBumppo]

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Satchel Paige

(Great thread, daus...)

 

[daus42]

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Satchel Paige

(Great thread, daus...)

Thanks Natty....hope we can dredge out all the old classics and some good new ones.

Because there's no crying in baseball. THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL! No crying!

Jimmy Dugan

 

[NattyBumppo]

George Halas throws nickels around like manhole covers.

Mike Ditka

 

[Cathleen]

"It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course."

Hank Aaron


This is a fun thread, daus, thanks.

 

[NattyBumppo]

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

Gordie Howe

 

[janeyl]

Steve is going for the pink ball - and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green.

Ted Lowe (Snooker)

 

[janeyl]

He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.

David Coleman