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Soccer Player Quotes 'The groin's been a little sore but after the semi-final I put it to the back of my head.' - MICHAEL HUGHES 'I've had 14 bookings this season - 8 of which were my fault, but 7 of which were disputable' - PAUL GASCOIGNE 'If Gabriel Amato's shot had gone in, the result could have been different' - GIOVANNI VAN BRONCKHORST 'Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win.' - VINNY JONES 'He's put on weight and I've lost it, and vice versa.' - RONNIE WHELAN 'He'd no alternative but to make a needless tackle.' - PAUL ELLIOTT 'The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.' - GRAEME LE SAUX Interviewer : Which is your favourite commentary team,BBC or ITV? Graeme Le Saux : Sky. 'He (Steve Walsh) is the type of player who will follow you to every end of the box.' - KERRY DIXON 'I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd.' - JOHNNY GILES 'Football's not like an electric light - you can't just flick the button and change from slow to quick.' - JOHN GREIG 'I was disappointed to leave Spurs, but quite pleased that I did.' - STEVE PERRYMAN 'I spent four indifferent years at Goodison, but they were great years.' - MARTIN HODGE 'You've got to believe that you're going to win, and I believe that we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out.' - PETER SHILTON 'He's one of those managers you'd give your left leg to play for.' - COLIN COOPER 'I'm not convinced that Scotland will play a typically English game.' - GARETH SOUTHGATE 'We didn't think we'd come here tonight and get any sort of result.' - LES SEALEY 'If there wasn't such a thing as football we'd all be frustrated footballers.' - MICK LYONS 'It was a big relief off my shoulder.' - PAUL GASCOIGNE 'Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.' - ALAN SHEARER (over there) 'It took a lot of bottle for Tony (Adams) to own up' - IAN WRIGHT on his team mate's admission of alcoholism 'There's no in between - you're either good or bad. We were in between.' - GARY LINEKER 'I never predict anything, and I never will.' - PAUL GASCOIGNE 'I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.' - IAN RUSH 'My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.' - IAN WRIGHT 'All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed' - MITCHELL THOMAS 'All the Leeds team are 100% behind the manager,but I can't speak for the rest of the squad.' - BRIAN GREENHOFF 'My legs sort of disappeared from nowhere.' - CHRIS WADDLE 'I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.' - STUART PEARCE 'I can't promise anything, but I promise 100%.' - PAUL POWER 'I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona' - MARK DRAPER 'I may have handed in a transfer request, but there is no way that I want to leave this club.' - DAVID EYRES 'She (Eileen Drewery) gives the players a shoulder to talk to.' - NEIL WEBB 'Our consistency's been all over the place' - ANDY HINCHCLIFFE 'I've lost count of the times I've played in that fixture. Each one was a memorable occasion.' - TREVOR STEVEN 'The boss keeps those things up his sleeve, close to his chest' - CRAIG BURLEY Rob Shepherd : 'Was there a game last season in which Blackburn's season turned around?' Kevin Gallagher : 'Yes,when we beat Liverpool 2-0.' Shepherd : 'And was there something in that game which made you think that the season was about to turn round for you?' Gallagher : 'Well,we scored three goals.' 'I'm five short [of the Arsenal goalscoring record] - not that I'm counting.' - IAN WRIGHT 'No money in the world can buy a white England shirt.' - ALAN SHEARER 'The manager has given us unbelievable belief.' - PAUL MERSON 'We defended like Trojans.' - MIKE STOWELL 'If you're 0-0 down, there's no-one better to get you back on terms then Ian Wright.' - ROBBIE EARLE 'You don't need balls to play in a cup final.' - STEVE CLARIDGE 'Once you've had a bull terrier, you never want another dog. I've got six bull terriers, a rottweiler and a bulldog.' - JULIAN DICKS 'I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.' - BARRY VENISON 'Without being too harsh on David Beckham, he cost us the match.' - IAN WRIGHT 'If it's not a contract I want then I won't sign it. That's not a threat.' - ROY KEANE 'I can't even remember when the Seventies was.' - ROBBIE KEANE 'If, since the start, I'd played well and put in some good matches it would all have been too simple.' - NICOLAS ANELKA 'It was like the ref had a brand new yellow card and wanted to see if it worked.' - RICHARD RUFUS 'The left foot has helped - it's always been there, but I haven't always had the chance to use it.' - STIG INGE BJORNEBEYE Credit card application form question : 'What is your position at the company?' Jason McAteer's (self-confirmed) response : 'Right back.' 'I was born in Newcastle and I've played for Newcastle Schoolboys all my life.' - DENNIS TUEART 'I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.' - ALAN SHEARER 'I dreamt of playing for a club like Manchester United, and now here I am at Liverpool.' - SANDER WESTERVELD 'Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesbrough.' - JONATHAN WOODGATE 'My motivation and my back no longer exist.' - MARTIN DAHLIN Interviewer : 'Would it be fair to describe you as a volatile player?' DAVID BECKHAM : 'Well, I can play in the centre, on the right and occasionally on the left side.' 'Germany are a very difficult team to play...they had 11 internationals out there today.' - STEVE LOMAS 'Paul Scholes - the most complete mental player I've ever seen.' - BEN THORNLEY 'Maybe the mistakes have looked worse because they led to goals.' - IAN WALKER 'It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.' - GARY NEVILLE 'I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.' - KENNY CUNNINGHAM 'I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.' - MARK VIDUKA 'You can't do better than a goal on your first start.' - BOBBY ZAMORA 'At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them.' - ALAN SHEARER 'One point from an away game is no longer considered a victory.' - PETTER RUDI '...the ball went over mine and Colin Calderwood's heads and who should be there at the far post but yours truly - Alan Shearer.' - COLIN HENDRY 'I was alone up front, with Danny Murphy playing between me, myself and the midfield.' - MICHAEL OWEN 'In football, you don't really know what is going on but we will worry about that when it happens.' - NEIL SULLIVAN 'I'm as happy as I can be - but I have been happier.' - UGO EHIOGU 'The pace of the game between first team and reserves is like night and day.' - MAURICE MALPAS 'If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day.' - NEVILLE SOUTHALL 'I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right.' - LEE HENDRIE 'It's different - it's not the same' - RYAN GIGGS 'The Brazilians were South American, and the Ukranians will be more European.' - PHIL NEVILLE 'One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.' - ALAN SHEARER 'Sometimes in football you have to score goals' - THIERRY HENRY 'We all know that promotion is the carrot at the end of the tunnel' - MARK YARDLEY 'I don't make predictions. I never have done and I never will do.' - IAN WRIGHT 'My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7' - DAVID BECKHAM 'If you never concede a goal, you're going to win more games than you lose' - BOBBY MOORE 'Left alone with our own heads on, we can be pretty mental' - TONY ADAMS 'Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.' - DAVID BECKHAM 'You usually like to play promoted sides around Christmas. They have got two lungs at the moment.' - PAUL MERSON 'I faxed a transfer request to the club at the beginning of the week, but let me state that I don't want to leave Leicester.' - STAN COLLYMORE 'I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet.' - DAVID BECKHAM 'There's no way the future's over for Martin Keown, Tony Adams or David Seaman.' - ALAN SHEARER 'It was like deja vu all over again.' - SHAKA HISLOP 'I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football.' - LES FERDINAND 'I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing' - ADE AKINBIYI 'Over the years a lot of great players have left United - I'm sure the same will happen to me one day.' - ROY KEANE 'The stars above Italian clubs' badges shows you how many times they have won the Gazetta' - DAVID JAMES 'I thought from start to finish we really started well.' - JOHN HARTSON 'They was given as good as they got' - JOHN TERRY 'There is a smear campaign against me with facts, which are not true' - TONI POLSTER 'Jörg Berger is such a good coach, he had even saved the Titanic' - JAN AAGE FJORTOFT 'Now the world is my lobster' - KEITH O'NEILL 'He's different, like every manager, I suppose' - UGO EHIOGU 'Second best is not good enough really. Although if someone turned around now and said 'you will be promoted, but you will come in second' then I would take it.' - STEVE HOWEY 'He'll be the leader in the tool kit' - ROBBIE EARLE 'I have a good record there. Played one, won one, and hopefully it will be the same after Saturday.' - STEVEN GERRARD 'We have to be careful not to let our game not be the game we know it should be.' - PAUL INCE 'If you make the right decision, it's normally going to be the correct one.' - DAVE BEASANT 'At least it was a victory and at least we won.' - BOBBY MOORE 'As a striker, you are either in a purple patch or struggling. At the moment, I'm somewhere in between.' - BOB TAYLOR 'We lost because we didn't win.' - RONALDO 'There's a rat in the camp throwing a spanner in the works' - CHRIS CATTLIN 'This is the one-off occasion and you can't get any bigger occasion than that' - BRYAN ROBSON 'Everything in our favour was against us' - DANNY BLANCHFLOWER 'That's a question mark everyone's asking' - BRUCE GROBBELLAR 'You only get one opportunity of an England debut' - ALAN SHEARER 'Both sets of defenders are doing well for Deportivo' - MICK MARTIN 'The championship is the carrot at the end of the championship' - TONY COTTEE 'That was in the past - we're in the future now' - DAVID BECKHAM 'It was a game of two halves, literally.' - CHRIS POWELL 'It's a no-win game for us. Although I suppose we can win by winning.' - GARY DOHERTY 'I was both surprised and delighted to take the armband for both legs.' - GARY O'NEIL 'I was really surprised when the FA knocked on my doorbell' - MICHAEL OWEN 'What we have to do is put our teeth into the Premiership.' - PETER SCHMEICHEL 'Wayne Rooney can go all the way to the top if he keeps his head firmly on the ground' - DAVID UNSWORTH 'He managed to make a good hash of it in the end' - NIALL QUINN 'The manager could not even talk to us at the interval - he said we were bad.' - JOHN TERRY 'It's great to get the first trophy under the bag' - MICHAEL OWEN 'I thought from start to finish we really started well' - JOHN HARTSON 'We could be putting the hammer in Luton's coffin' - RAY WILKINS 'You can only do as well as what you have done' - BRYAN ROBSON 'Football's all about 90 minutes' - GLENN HODDLE 'It feels like winning the cup final, if that's what it feels like.' - GRAHAM HAWKINS 'If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards.' - PETER SHILTON 'I've always been a childhood Liverpool fan, even when I was a kid' - HARRY KEWELL 'It's going to be difficult for me - I've never had to learn a language and now I do.' - DAVID BECKHAM 'He's started anticipating what's going to happen before it's even happened' - GRAEME LE SAUX 'We seem to be a side that if we don't score we get beat' - JASON MCATEER 'In the last ten minutes I was breathing out of my arse' - CLINTON MORRISON 'It's not just the manager who makes the decision, it's the player who makes the decision. They both decide fifty-fifty to make a decision.' - RUUD VAN NISTELROOY

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espn.com and the greatest players ever: Who should be Nos. 1-10

By Jon Wilner
Monday, February 25th, 2008 at 12:06 pm in General.

Don't know if you've seen it, but espn.com is in the process of ranking the 25 greatest players in college basketball history.

I'm not sure how often the list is updated, but they've reached the top 10.

I spent 10 or 15 minutes before the Cal-Stanford game in the Maples press room discussing the list with the Oakland Tribune's Jeff Faraudo and the Chronicle's Jake Curtis.

We came up with 10 players we think should sit atop the list.


First, here are espn.com's Nos. 11-25, and remember: It's based on what the players did in college — NBA performance has nothing to do with it (that will be clear when you see who's No. 12).

25. George Mikan
24. David Robinson
23. Calvin Murphy
22. Austin Carr
21. Tim Duncan
20. Bob Kurland
19. Elgin Baylor
18. Ralph Sampson
17. Tom Gola
16. Patrick Ewing
15. Magic Johnson
14. Elvin Hayes
13. Michael Jordan
12. Christian Laettner
11. Jerry Lucas

On the whole, it's a pretty strong 15. But there are a few names I would have included: North Carolina's Phil Ford, Kentucky's Alex Groza and Stanford's Hank Luisetti.

OK, so we came up with our top-10 list.

It's not necessarily the players we think are the 10 best; it's the players we think espn.com will think are the 10 best (in most case, they are one in the same).

*** Our second five:

N.C. State's David Thompson: Best player in the history of the best conference.

Kansas' Wilt Chamberlain: Would be in the top five except he only played two years.

Princeton's Bill Bradley: Took the Tigers to the Final Four. College career immortalized in John McPhee's classic, A Sense of Where You Are.

West Virginia's Jerry West: Because he's, um, Jerry West.

Indiana State's Larry Bird: Along with Magic, responsible for the most important game in college basketball history: ISU vs. Michigan State for the '79 title.

*** Our top five

Cincinnati's Oscar Robertson: Good enough to have his name on the trophy given to the nation's top player by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.

LSU's Pete Maravich: Averaged more than 40 points per game in each of his three seasons.

USF's Bill Russell: Led the Dons to back-to-back national titles and dominated the game defensively like nobody before or since.

UCLA's Bill Walton: We wondered who will be No. 2: Walton or Russell.

UCLA's Lew Alcindor: If he's not at the top, espn.com's list loses all credibility.




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Baseball Quotes

In August 1948, Ruth died of throat cancer and lay in state at Yankee Stadium, the baseball cathedral built on the fruits of his work. Ruth's funeral took place on a day of such heat that pallbearer and former teammate Joe Dugan said, "I'd give a hundred dollars for a beer." The old pitcher Waite Hoyt replied in Ruth's spirit: "So would the Babe."
- Sent in by Mark Maxon

"I keep my eys clear and I hit 'em where they ain't."
Willie Keeler's famous explanation for his .432 average in 1897.

"There are a lot more important things in life than baseball. I just haven't found out what they are yet"
Marty Schupak, creator of "The 59 minute Baseball Practice" video

"Third time's a charm is a lot better than three strikes you're out."
Manciata

"Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of."
Johnny Bench

"I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out."
Bill Lee

"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."
Satchel Paige (1906-1982)

"'This is America,' my father used to say to me, 'and in this country, a smart young fellow like you can grow up and do just about anything.' My dad, no doubt, was thinking doctor, lawyer, teacher, scientist or businessman. I was thinking second baseman, New York Yankees."
Senator Joe Lieberman

"Moments of silence, full crowds standing for "God Bless America" in the seventh inning, cheers for firefighters -- all winding down to Barry Bonds trying to hit home runs and a cast of fools in the inlet giddily trying to catch them."
Chuck Culpepper, The Oregonian Sports Columnist,
"Cruelest month ends in a day by the Bay" - 10/01/01

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