SPORTS QUOTES
2007'S OVERHEARD: The best quotes of the year
January 1, 2008
• "The only thing I'm doing is preparing to play ... Middle Tennessee State. ... Don't ask it, I've got nothing to say. I am so happy right where I'm at. I need to work harder with this team. That's my focus and it will not change." -- LSU coach Les Miles, when he was asked about the Michigan job in mid-September. Guess we should have listened to him.
• "The first thing I thought of was how everybody was always saying how I was crazy about some of the things I said. Take a look at me, now. Don't look too crazy now, do I?" - Rasheed Wallace, on the NBA ref busted for gambling.
• "I was just laughing. I thought it was funny. They got excited. It's good. Sometimes you get your little brother excited when you're playing basketball and let him get the lead, then you just come back and take it back." -- U-M's Mike Hart, after Michigan's 28-24 comeback victory over Michigan State.
• "Michigan is a good school and I got a good education there, but the athletic department has ways to get borderline guys in and, when they're in, they steer them to courses in sports communications. They're adulated when they're playing, but when they get out, the people who adulated them won't hire them." - Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh, on U-M's academic requirements for student-athletes.
• "It sounds like a drug emporium there with drugs all around. ... This is a family in crisis." - Montgomery County (Pa.) Judge Steven T. O'Neill, at the sentencing of Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid's two sons.
• "Next to striking out Inge, that's the happiest I've been in this uniform." - Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, comparing Rick Ankiel's homer in his debut as an outfielder to the 2006 World Series win over the Tigers.
• "If it doesn't happen, who cares? There's always next year. It's not the end of the world." - Manny (Being Manny) Ramirez, when the Red Sox were down, 3-1, to Cleveland in the ALCS.
• "Come after me. I'm a man. I'm 40. I'm not a kid. ... That article had to have been written by a person that doesn't have a child." -- Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy, defending a player against a critical newspaper column. And Gundy's tirade plays much better on YouTube.
• "I heard that I made a transfusion with my father's blood. That's absurd. I can tell you that with his blood, I would have tested positive for vodka." - Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan, one of the Tour de France riders sent home because of doping suspicions.
• "You mean that little midget man who absolutely knows (very little) about baseball, who never played the game before?" - Barry Bonds, asked about criticism of him on Bob Costas' HBO show.
• "I bet on my team every night." - Pete Rose, remembering his days as the Cincinnati Reds manager on ESPN Radio.
• "I would never let a white boy beat me. You can print that. I would never lose to a white person." - Bernard Hopkins, who will fight British super-middleweight Joe Calzaghe this year.
• "Even I've never heard of me!" - Masters champ Zach Johnson, delivering the Top 10 list on David Letterman.
• "I will never be in the Hall of Fame. Never. ... I won't go. I won't be part of it, I won't be there, you can call me, but I won't be there." - Barry Bonds, interviewed on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," on what he would do if the Baseball Hall of Fame accepts his record 756th home run ball marked with an asterisk.
• "For him to turn his back on us at this point in the year ... when things are probably the toughest, it's cowardly. To duck out the back door at night and then leave us a letter, that's not what a man does." - Falcons quarterback Joey Harrington, on the departure of coach Bobby Petrino's resignation
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