SPECIAL EDITORIAL NOTE FROM SPORTS_NUT, 2/26/2011
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Welcome to the retirement edition of Funny Sports Quotes.
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The Funny Sports Quotes blog was created in 11/2007 after I could see I could become a blogger very easily using Google's 3-step process for creating a blog online.
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For me, like most, work is not my idea of a fun experience, so I had to choose the topic that I would most enjoy pursuing and that, for me, was finding and posting funny sports quotes for entertaining and, in some cases, educating an audience on facets of sports even the most ardent sports fans may not have been aware of.
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At the same time, I decided to compile a database of funny sports quotes that sports fans and quote fans could visit for "one-stop" shopping, thereby helping them to avoid the need to search elsewhere for sports quotes.
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So, from 11/2007 until 2/2011. I have compiled quotes on the Funny Sports Quotes blog and its sister blog, FSQuotes, that is accessible only from the Funny Sports Quotes blog.
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As of 2/26/2011, I believe I have achieved my objective first set in 11/2007, which signals for me the end of my funny sports quotes database project.
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Kindly note that I have already made the last post (SI Swimsuit) to the blog, shut off further entries to Comments, and I will shut off the email address sports.quotes@gmail.com on 03/14/2011.
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Also note that many features previously cited on this page have been removed, so that a bare-bones FSQ remains for your future reference.
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I do hope that my venture was successful in bringing a smile to your face or a skip to your step, since that was all FSQ was created for, your entertainment and pleasure.
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In closing, I wish you and yours, Godspeed!
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Saturday, December 29, 2007

FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: barkleyquotes.blogspot.com

  • BASKETBALL QUOTES
  • CHARLES BARKLEY QUOTES:
  • I know why his name is DMX. Because his real name is Earl. Imagine if his name was Earl the rapper.
  • Barkley on a scuffle between Juwan Howard and Wally Szczerbiak: Both of them are nice guys, but neither one of them can crush a grape between them.
  • "It ain't against the rules to make a layup.."
  • "You mean to tell me they're holding our plane and soildiers hostage, and we're giving this Chinese guy a three year contract"
  • After Wang has a shot blocked: "He's got to bring something stronger than that. That's like bringing milk to a bar, it's not strong enough"
  • On the Celtics: "They stink. I could get 5 guys out of retirement, and we could beat them."
  • Its half-man, half-amazing. Or as some folks call him: all offense, no defense.
  • Barkley's reason for underclassman and highschool kids to stay in school:
    • If your homeboys are telling you yo go = don't come to the NBA
    • If your family is po' = don't come to the NBA
    • If you wanna meet groupies = don't come to the NBA
    • If you dont like classes = don't come to the NBA
    • If you can't start on a College team = don't come to the NBA
  • On the news that the NBA would allow zone defenses: "This is a great day for bad NBA players"
  • On Mavs/Jazz game 5: They better get that one over quick, because the streets in Utah close at 10.
  • "Crime will be down in NY tomorrow, because everyone will be at the game."
  • "I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan."
  • "I don't hate anyone, at least not for more than 48 minutes, barring overtime."
  • "If push came to shove, I could lose all self-respect & become a reporter."
  • On Barkley: "There wil never be another player like me. I'm the ninth wonder of the world."
  • On baldness: "Why do bald guys always wear beards? When I started to go bald, I took it like a man."
  • "When you're the top dog, everybody wants to put you in the pound."
  • "You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world & I might be right."
  • "You can talk without saying a thing. I don't ever want to be that type of person."
  • "The NBA stands for No Babies Allowed."
  • On the All-Star Game: "Hell, there ain't but 15 black millionaires in the whole country & half of 'em are right here in this room."
  • "I don't listen to the refs. I don't listen to anyone who makes less money than I do."
  • "I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention."
  • "Pressure is for tires."



  • FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: newsday.com

    BASEBALL QUOTES
    RICKEY HENDERSON \ Rickey being Rickey
    Even then, people were using the Rickey being Rickey phrase, including Rickey himself.

    "Rickey's gonna be Rickey. Period. No matter what I'm going to do or play or come here early, I'm gonna be Rickey. Rickey is not going to change and not be himself. I've been in this world too long to try to change Rickey and what he does . . . My mother don't even try to change me. She raised me, but she ain't gonna change me.

    "But what is 'being Rickey?' . . . What is 'being Rickey?' . . . Doin' his own thing? What is it I'm doing different? What am I doing? I didn't come on a day that he said. I came when I could make it."

    -- Speaking of Rickey's mother, he said after the A's won the World Series that season that he wanted to be a football player, but his mother, Bobbie, wouldn't let him. Rickey was still angered by that. "If she had let me go to college," Rickey said, "I could have become Bo Jackson before Bo Jackson." But does Bo know Rickey?

    -- Remember when Rickey broke Lou Brock's stolen base record and proclaimed over the loudspeaker, "Today, I am the greatest of all-time." That's not all he did. The day before, Henderson arrived in the clubhouse and handed out specially made flyers with the words, "I was there when Rickey Henderson broke Lou Brock's all-time stolen-base record of 938 with steal number 939." He also had t-shirts commemorating the event ready to go.

    -- Here's a good Rickey being Rickey moment. During the 1992 season Rickey was unhappy with his contract, which was a common theme during his career. He told the Sacramento Bee, "'I'm not happy, so I'm going to ask to be traded. It's been going on too long. I don't think I'm treated fairly. They don't deserve what I do." Of course one day later he back-peddled, saying, "You are fools. It's a big joke. Rickey tricked everybody. Thank you all."

    -- Now let's fast forward to Rickey's short but eventful time with the Mets. He explained on his first day of spring training in 1999 that part of the reason he doesn't always know teammates' names is because, "I like nicknames." And, also, he said, "I never get that close to pitchers."

    -- He started camp just 1-for-20, but he wasn't worried. "If Rickey had to get on base right now, Rickey would."

    -- He enjoyed a fine 1999 season at the plate, but his play quickly became overshadowed by the show he put off the field. He grew irate at Bobby Valentine for taking him off the field for a defensive replacement during a playoff game, which essentially was the turning point with the Mets. He started the 2000 season unhappy, though in a way only Rickey can be unhappy. "I came here, I was a happy man today. I'll be happy tomorrow. Even if I'm talking unhappy, I was happy." Then, at the start of the season, "When Rickey's not happy, that's not good." Two days later, "My head ain't on right… I'm in a bad situation, a bad way. I hate it. I hate where I am." He went on to say he had a "garbage contract," which he partly blamed his agent for. But it wasn't meant to be, and the Mets released him in May. "I'm going fishing," he said.



    FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: mlive.com

        Baseball quotes from/about the Detroit Tigers, 2007
     
    • Jim Leyland in August: "We're in a little bit of chaos right now. We're in chaos."

    • Leyland later in August: "I think we're getting close to some proximity of normalness around here."

    • Kenny Rogers after a bad game in Chicago: "It's a hitters' time. If you can't hit in this day and age, you need to take up soccer."

    • Andy Van Slyke on Jeremy Bonderman's first big-league hit: "I've never seen an athlete get to first base hyperventilating. Even a poker player should be able to run 90 feet without hyperventilating. I thought I was going to have to revive him. I told him, 'I know CPR, but I'm not going to perform it on you.'"

    • Justin Verlander when he got drug-tested the day after his no-hitter: "I guess that's what happens when you throw 100 (mph) in the ninth inning."