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SPORTS QUOTES
Quotes from a sports forum
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Quotes by John McKay, football coach:
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"Kickers are like horse manure. They're all over the place."
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"They keep records like most times sliding into second base on a Tuesday."
(Comment about baseball statistics)
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On this significance of experience-- "If you have everyone back from a team that lost 10 games, experience isn't too important."
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"The only problem with doing the impossible is that everybody expects you to duplicate the impossible."
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Hey, how about this one from Terry Bradshaw's Hall of Fame Speech:
"What I'd give to put my hands under Mike Webster's butt one last time"...
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Tennis pro Ille Nastase, on not reporting a stolen credit card to the police-"Whoever stole it is spending less than my wife."
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New York restaurant owner Toots Shor, sitting with Dr. Victor Fleming, who discovered penicillin, seeing Giants Hall of Fame slugger Mel Ott walk through the door- "Excuse me, somebody important just came in.
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Bucky Harris, giving advice to his woeful Senators team on how to hit Bob Feller-"Go up and hit what you see and if you can't see it, come on back."
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Joe McCarthy, Joe DiMaggio's Yankee manager, on if his star could bunt-"I will never find out."
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Sports writing immortal Jimmy Cannon, when the lights dimmed during a baseball writer's dinner-"Thank God, they electrocuted the chef."
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Baseball Hall of Famer Paul Waner-"They say money talks. The only thing it says to me is goodbye."
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Announcer Bill Curtis, hearing the 1974 San Diego Chargers were being investigated for drug abuse-"The way they play, it must have been formaldehyde."
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Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Brock-"When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. My dad solved the problem. He cut the legs off it."
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Jimmy Cannon on Howard Cosell-"He changed his name from Cohen to Cosell , puts on a toupee and tells it like it is?"
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