"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee!" "Rumble, young man, rumble!" Bundini Brown, corner man to Muhammad Ali =========================================================== Find quotes about baseball, football, basketball, boxing, golf, tennis, hockey, swimming, racing, soccer, track and field, and other sports on this blog. (New on this blog: SNAP SHOTS. Please see Blog Enhancement note at bottom of page for more details.)
SPORTS QUOTES
"When you're rich, you don't write checks. Straight cash, homey."
-- Randy Moss
"Wow, he's been on our side all night!"
-- Bulls announcer Johnny Kerr, commenting on a Mark Blount airball during Blount's historic triple-zero (0 points, 0 blocks and 0 rebounds in 22 minutes)
"They shot the crap out of the ball, everybody on the floor. You think you have them, they swing it and swing it and then swoosh. They have good rebounders to gather the misses. Sometimes you're like, 'Man they must have a cheat code or something.'"
-- Bobcats rookie Emeka Okafor on the Sonics
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BASKETBALL QUOTES
"By the time we got [to Detroit, it was almost 2 in the morning, because ain't nothing open but hospitals, jails and legs."
-- Jalen Rose
"I'm telling you, Darko is a Serbian gangster. Darko's got some bodies back there [in Serbia-Montenegro]. He can go psycho on guys."
-- Rasheed Wallace on teammate Darko Milicic
"I cherished getting kicked out of school. It was a great thing. I became a millionaire."
-- Heat G Jason Williams on what he cherishes about his days at the University of Florida
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"I must have made him mad ... I stole his cheeseburger or something. I was surprised. I kind of laughed. I enjoy when people hate me. That makes me happy, so he's made my whole week."
-- Bears C Olin Kreutz responding to Vikings DT Pat Williams calling Kruetz "nothing but a joke"
"Honestly, this is probably going to strike a nerve with a lot of people. But my most memorable Christmas memory was having all of my uncles and aunties out of prison for one Christmas, and that includes me. We had a lot of run-ins with the law, and to have us all out at one time was great."
-- Wizards forward Caron Butler
"Ray Lewis is the type of guy, if he were in a fight with a bear I wouldn't help him, I'd pour honey on him because he likes to fight. That's the type of guy Ray Lewis is."
-- Shannon Sharpe
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