Weight Lifting
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Pat Glenn - Weightlifting commentator: "This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria....I saw her snatch this morning and it was amazing."
Bull Fighting
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King Kaufman, Salon.com, on Rush Limbaugh's comment that "football is a lot like life": "Football is nothing like life. It's organized and neat and rational. Everyone is either with your or against you and the boundaries are straight lines that are clearly marked. The only sport that's like life is bullfighting, and only for the bull."
Skiing
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Alberto Tomba: "I really lack the words to compliment myself today."
Olympics
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David Coleman: "The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time."
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Paul Hamm, Gymnast: "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father."
Cycling
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David Bean: "Cycling's a good thing for the youngsters, because it keeps them off the streets."
Lacrosse
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Tony Kornheiser: "I'm not a lacrosse guy. If they held it in my frontyard, I'd move to my backyard."
Boat Racing
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Harry Carpenter - BBC TV Boat Race: "Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew."
Frisbee
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Ed Headrick, inventor of the Frisbee: "We used to say that Frisbee is really a religion-'Frisbeeterians,' we'd call ourselves. When we die, we don't go to purgatory, we just land up on the roof and lie there."
Bull Riding
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Adriano Morales, explaining why a bull rider must stay on for eight seconds: "Because seven is not long enough and nine is too long."
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Mike White, explaining why a bull rider must stay on for eight seconds: "You have to ride eight seconds because them's the rules."
Olympics
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Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle writer, remarking on the 2004 Athens Olympics being so far behind schedule: "If everything goes smoothly, the torch relay will end at the opening ceremony when the last torch bearer runs into the stadium and welds the roof in place."
Water Polo
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Dick Enberg, on his first L.A. television assignment in 1963, a water polo match between USC and UCLA: "I didn't know one thing about the sport. I used to wonder how they got the horses in the pool."
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