Sports Quotes & Phrases

[Midnight_Man]

"Heck, if anybody told me I was setting a record (strikeouts in a game on July 30, 1933) I'd of got me some more strikeouts."

Dizzy Dean

 

[MrEd63]

Jauntarina opens his legs and shows his class - Ron Pickering

 

[janeyl]

Jauntarina opens his legs and shows his class - Ron Pickering

I heard something similar from an Irish commentator about Brian O'Driscoll-had to ask the people I was with if I'd heard it right-lol

 

[NattyBumppo]

I don't think this is the original quote, but it does allude to it:

When England lost to Germany in the 1990 soccer World Cup semifinal, historian Kenneth Clarke asked then-Prime Minister of Great Britain Margaret Thatcher, "Isn't it terrible about losing to the Germans at our national sport?" She replied, "I shouldn't worry too much; we've beaten them twice this century at theirs."

 

[emmy_christina]

I got a few

You can observe a lot just by watching.
-- Yogi Berra

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

We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. I just can't figure out where else to play!
-- Pat Williams

I started out with nothing and I still have most of it.
-- Source Unknown

The sun doesn't shine on the same dog's butt every day but we sure didn't expect a total eclipse.
-- Steve Sloan

I'd run over my mother to win the Super Bowl.
-- Russ Grimm

 

[mwmnpa]

"It's too bad he lives in the city. He's depriving some small village of a pretty good idiot."

Mike Milbury on Zigmund Palffy's agent, Paul Kraus.

 

[mwmnpa]

Flyers GM Bob Clarke on Vancouver holdout Pavel Bure and Pittsburgh holdout Petr Nedved:

"What makes you think these guys are not going to walk out on the next team they get to? Bure is just as dumb as Nedved, and Nedved is an idiot.''

 

[NattyBumppo]

Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.

Henry Sanders (not Vince Lombardi)

It's a beautiful day for a ballgame... Let's play two!

Mr. Cub

 

[NattyBumppo]

They really want to avoid last night's blow job.

Bob Costas, describing on the air what the St. Louis Spirit hoped not to do in a game

 

[NattyBumppo]

There's a long drive... it's gonna be, I believe...THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT!! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT! Bobby Thomson hits into the lower deck of the left-field stands! The Giants win the pennant and they're goin' crazy, they're goin' crazy! HEEEY-OH!!!''

Russ Hodges

 

[mulehead61]

They really want to avoid last night's blow job.

Bob Costas, describing on the air what the St. Louis Spirit hoped not to do in a game

Ah...the old Spirits of St. Louis....who can forget Double G, Movin' Marvin Barnes (later to become Marvin "Bad News" Barnes), and a very, very young Moses Malone?? And that red, white and blue ball the ABA used? And a nobody named Bob Costas doing play-by-play. Those were the days....


There is the legendary story about the Spirits getting ready to depart on a flight that left Louisville, Ky., at 8 p.m. and would get into St. Louis at 7:56 p.m. due to a time-zone change. Upon looking at the schedule, Barnes said, “I ain’t getting on no time machine,” and rented a car for the trip.

 

[Mrs.H]

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

~Muhammad Ali

 

[kairotic]

"Me. We."
(Or is it: "Me, wheeee!")

Behold, the poetical wit of Muhammad Ali.

 

[daus42]

You're 5 foot nothin', 100 and nothin', and you have barely a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in there with the best college football players in the land for 2 years. And you're gonna walk outta here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame. In this life, you don't have to prove nothin' to nobody but yourself. And after what you've gone through, if you haven't done that by now, it ain't gonna never happen. Now go on back.

Fortune from Rudy

 

[NattyBumppo]

I love Brian Piccolo, and I'd like all of you to love him. When you hit your knees to pray tonight, please ask God to love him, too.

Gale Sayers

 

[Malerotica]

Lou Gherig

"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.

"Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure, I'm lucky. Who wouldn't consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I'm lucky.

"When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift - that's something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies - that's something. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something. When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed - that's the finest I know.

"So I close in saying that I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for."

 

[NattyBumppo]

You don't know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

Bum Phillips

 

[Malerotica]

Dennis Green

"...then crown their ass, but they are who we thought they were, and we let 'em off the hook! ... THEY ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE"

 

[NattyBumppo]

"...then crown their ass, but they are who we thought they were, and we let 'em off the hook! ... THEY ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE"

Nice one. As a Cubs' fan, here's my bookend to yours:

"Fuck those fuckin' fans who come out here and say they're Cub fans that are supposed to be behind you rippin' every fuckin' thing you do. I'll tell you one fuckin' thing, I hope we get fuckin' hotter than shit, just to stuff it up them 3,000 fuckin' people that show up every fuckin' day, because if they're the real Chicago fuckin' fans, they can kiss my fuckin' ass right downtown and PRINT IT.

"They're really, really behind you around here... my fuckin' ass. What the fuck am I supposed to do, go out there and let my fuckin' players get destroyed every day and be quiet about it? For the fuckin' nickel-dime people who turn up? The motherfuckers don't even work. That's why they're out at the fuckin' game. They oughta go out and get a fuckin' job and find out what it's like to go out and earn a fuckin' living. Eighty-five percent of the fuckin' world is working. The other fifteen percent come out here. A fuckin' playground for the cocksuckers. Rip them motherfuckers. Rip them fuckin' cocksuckers like the fuckin' players. we got guys bustin' their fuckin' ass, and them fuckin' people boo. And that's the Cubs? My players get around here. I haven't seen it this fuckin' year. Everybody associated with this organization have been winners their whole fuckin' life. Everybody. And the credit is not given in that respect.

"Alright, they don't show because we're 5 and 14... and unfortunately, that's the criteria of them dumb 15 motherfuckin' percent that come out to day baseball. The other 85 percent are earning a living. I tell you, it'll take more than a 5 and 12 or 5 and 14 to destroy the makeup of this club. I guarantee you that. There's some fuckin' pros out there that wanna win. But you're stuck in a fuckin' stigma of the fuckin' Dodgers and the Phillies and the Cardinals and all that cheap shit. It's unbelievable. It really is. It's a disheartening fuckin' situation that we're in right now. Anybody who was associated with the Cub organization four or five years ago that came back and sees the multitude of progress that's been made will understand that if they're baseball people, that 5 and 14 doesn't negate all that work. We got 143 fuckin' games left.

"What I'm tryin' to say is don't rip them fuckin' guys out there. Rip me. If you wanna rip somebody, rip my fuckin' ass. But don't rip them fuckin' guys 'cause they're givin' everything they can give. And right now they're tryin' to do more than God gave 'em, and that's why we make the simple mistakes. That's exactly why."

Lee Elia

 

[Malerotica]

Field of Dreams

Ray Kinsella: Don't we need a catcher?
Shoeless Joe Jackson: Not if you get it near the plate we don't.

 

[NattyBumppo]

To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.

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

Jim Valvano

 

[Malerotica]

Howard Cosell

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

 

[Malerotica]

Did someone say Cubs...

Babe Ruth...

"Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere."

 

[Malerotica]

Applies to many aspects of Life..

the one, the only...Jack Nicklaus

Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

 

[NattyBumppo]

And that's a 4-6-3 double play for those of you scoring at home.

Or even if you're alone.

Keith Olbermann