SPORTS QUOTES
Quotes from 2006
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“Drowning has always been my biggest fear.”
- Janina Peters, lifeguard.
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“We wanted to keep him off the bases.”
- manager Charlie Manuel (Phillies) explains Jose Reyes' (Mets) three home runs in one game.
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Q: “You’re the player. We like to hear it from the horse's mouth.”
Q: “You’re the player. We like to hear it from the horse's mouth.”
A: (Roddick): "Go buy a horse.”
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Tennis star Roddick about playing the retiring Agassi:
Q: “Do you feel relief that [it] is not going to happen?”
A: (Roddick): “Obviously you want to play against your idols, but then again you don’t want to be the guy who shot Bambi.”
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“Russian women are not very good for figure skating. They are good for building rail tracks in Siberia, for example.”
- Alexei Mishin, champion Evgeni Plushenko's coach.
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“I got to party and socialize at an Olympic level.”
- Bode Miller, the U.S. Olympic skier who went zero for five on Olympic gold.
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“You can always get new teeth.”
- Teemu Selanne, a Finnish hockey player who sacrificed three whites during a quarterfinal with the US.
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“Years ago, you used to get out and fight and run around and chase each other with a jackhammer and stuff like that. Those were the good old days.”
- Dale Earnhardt Jr., on track etiquette in the days before NASCAR's sponsors began to fuss about driver conduct.
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Q: “How different was it holding up that plate today than in Australia?”
Amelie Mauresmo: “It's a different trophy. It's round; it's smaller.”
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“I told the producers I'd give my left nut to host this thing.”
- Lance Armstrong, opening the 2006 ESPY Awards
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“She's pretty aggressive in our cars. Especially if you catch her at the right time of the month; she might be trading plenty of paint out there.”
- Ed Carpenter, IRL racing driver describes Danica Patrick.
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“I'm glad he's showing some personality.”
- Danica Patrick about Ed Carpenter, later that same day.
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“Your child, at birth, already has a deeply complicated relationship with his mother, so for the first year you are only a curiosity. As the years go by you will become an amusement-park ride. Then, a referee. And finally, a bank.”
- Things a Man Should Know About Fatherhood, Esquire magazine
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“When you're inviting people, you don't have to tell them this is a cold place.”
- Canada's BC Premier Gordon Campbell, trying to tone down 2010 Olympic promotions.
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“He scares our German shepherd to death when we are at home; so we come here.”
- Sue Mihalyi, explaining why she and her husband Mark watch Steeler games at a local Pittsburgh restaurant. The Steelers won the Superbowl in 2006 without her rug suffering.
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“Of course, some of it could be cops just watching the game and not responding.”
- Geoffrey Alpert, University of South Carolina criminologist, about (his) research showing a decline in crimes during the Super Bowl.
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Last but not least, the non-sports-related 2006 quote by Jessica Alba (see image above):
“Thanks to all the perverts who voted for me.”
- Jessica Alba, accepting MTV's award for the Sexiest Performance in a Movie (Sin City.)
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