SPECIAL EDITORIAL NOTE FROM SPORTS_NUT, 2/26/2011
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Welcome to the retirement edition of Funny Sports Quotes.
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The Funny Sports Quotes blog was created in 11/2007 after I could see I could become a blogger very easily using Google's 3-step process for creating a blog online.
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For me, like most, work is not my idea of a fun experience, so I had to choose the topic that I would most enjoy pursuing and that, for me, was finding and posting funny sports quotes for entertaining and, in some cases, educating an audience on facets of sports even the most ardent sports fans may not have been aware of.
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At the same time, I decided to compile a database of funny sports quotes that sports fans and quote fans could visit for "one-stop" shopping, thereby helping them to avoid the need to search elsewhere for sports quotes.
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So, from 11/2007 until 2/2011. I have compiled quotes on the Funny Sports Quotes blog and its sister blog, FSQuotes, that is accessible only from the Funny Sports Quotes blog.
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As of 2/26/2011, I believe I have achieved my objective first set in 11/2007, which signals for me the end of my funny sports quotes database project.
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Kindly note that I have already made the last post (SI Swimsuit) to the blog, shut off further entries to Comments, and I will shut off the email address sports.quotes@gmail.com on 03/14/2011.
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Also note that many features previously cited on this page have been removed, so that a bare-bones FSQ remains for your future reference.
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I do hope that my venture was successful in bringing a smile to your face or a skip to your step, since that was all FSQ was created for, your entertainment and pleasure.
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In closing, I wish you and yours, Godspeed!
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: martialdevelopment.com


The Twenty Best Martial Arts Quotes of All Time

Mohandas Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi


Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
~ Mohandas Gandhi

The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
~ William Francis Butler

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
~ Ben Jonson

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.
~ Mark Twain

Courage first; power second; technique third.
~ Author unknown

Joe Lewis
Joe Louis


Everyone has a plan until they've been hit.
~ Joe Louis

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.
~ Matsu Basho

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
~ John Milton

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.
~ Sun Tzu

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
~ Bruce Lee

Plato (left) and Aristotle (right)
Plato and Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.
~ Aristotle

A warrior may choose pacifism; others are condemned to it.
~ Author unknown

I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
~ Mencius

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit softly.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

Should you desire the great tranquility, prepare to sweat.
~ Hakuin

Cry in the dojo. Laugh on the battlefield.
~ Author unknown

In times of peace, the warlike man attacks himself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

There are two rules for being successful in martial arts. Rule 1: Never tell others everything you know.
~ Author unspecified

FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: askmen.com

TRASH TALKING IN SPORTS
Sports Insults
Some athletes are media loudmouths, while others are intimidating trash talkers. Unlike loud mouths who fire up the media with priceless quotes -- Terrell Owens comes to mind -- the sickest trash talkers are athletes who save their antics for opponents and talk smack in order to distract their nemesis and get him off his game.

One of the greatest trash-talking moments occurred in the 1997 NBA Finals between the Chicago Bulls and the Utah Jazz. With Game 1 tied at 82, Scottie Pippen came through in the clutch: The game was played on a Sunday, and as Karl Malone stepped to the free-throw line, Pippen walked behind The Mailman, Karl Malone, and muttered, "The Mailman doesn't deliver on Sunday." And he was right; The Mailman choked by throwing up two bricks. On the ensuing play, one of basketball's greatest trash talkers, Michael Jordan, won the game with a buzzer-beater.

Number 10

Mike Tyson

As a character foil for Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson is the man. Where Ali was boxing's greatest ambassador and trash talker, Tyson personified the many problems with the sport. But there is little question that, like Ali, Tyson's brain has been altered by the beatings he received. As a trash talker, Tyson was at his best when his boxing skills were on the decline. In one of his more memorable moments, Tyson had these words for Lennox Lewis after a tune-up fight that lasted 38 seconds: "My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable. And I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I wanna eat his children. Praise be to Allah." As trash talking goes, his words make no sense, which is precisely why they are so frightening. When it came time to fight, Tyson was knocked out in the eighth round of what was, at the time, the highest-grossing pay-per-view event in history.

Number 9

Deion Sanders

Widely recognized as the greatest NFL cornerback of all time, Prime Time was a hot-dogging showboat with some of the slickest skills in the business. In his spare time, Neon Deion was an exceptional baseball player. As a shut-down cornerback, Deion Sanders was one of football's most gifted physical specimens and one of the biggest trash talkers in the sport. He was so gifted, as a player and trash talker, that he kept himself involved in the game by barking at his opponents the entire time. Then, after distracting the attacking wide receiver, Sanders would intercept the quarterback and gracefully high-step his way down the sideline for a defensive touchdown. And that's when the trash talking would really kick into high gear.

Number 8

Juan Pablo Montoya

Like all trash talkers, Juan Pablo Montoya has an ego the size of Everest. Loose-lipped and confident in his driving ability, this Colombian trash talker rarely speaks in banal sports cliches. And in the racing world, where interviews are the only venue for trash talking, few drivers are willing to lambaste their opponents. Montoya, however, is the exception. Back in his Formula 1 days, with Michael Schumacher sitting right next to him, Montoya half-jokingly referred to the legendary German as "either blind or stupid." Since then, Montoya has brought his bombastic personality to NASCAR, where his attitude and opinions are helping him win both races and fans. Too bad Montoya doesn't realize that stepping from F1 to NASCAR is a demotion.

Number 7

Charles Barkley

Known variably as Sir Charles and The Round Mound of Rebound, Barkley was a menace on the basketball court, yapping at opponents with legendary eloquence. Like a few other athletes on this list, Barkley's trash-talking bravado has landed him a job as a TV analyst, which provides him the opportunity to continue voicing his insightful opinions. Not only is Barkley among the greatest trash talkers, he is also a great joker: At the 2007 NBA All-Star Game, Barkley raced against 67-year old referee Dick Bavetta, claiming in the pre-race build-up that Bavetta is old enough to have "parted the Red Sea with Moses." For his part, when asked if Barkley might be twice his size, Bavetta fired back with, "Try three times. I'm only 160 pounds." Booya
Number 6

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Floyd Mayweather, aka Pretty Boy Floyd, is widely considered the best pound-for-pound boxer around. After a banner 2007, in which he beat Oscar de la Hoya and mopped the floor with Ricky Hatton, Mayweather is now being mentioned in the same breath as Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard. Long before the Hatton fight, Mayweather had these savage words for the British champion: "When I retire, I'll get Ricky Hatton to wash my clothes and cut my lawn and buckle my shoes. Ricky Hatton ain't nothing but a fat man. I'm going to punch him in his beer belly. He ain't good enough to be my sparring partner."

Number 5

Gary Payton

During his years with the Seattle Sonics, The Glove was a suffocating defender who would get in the face of his opponent and relentlessly spit verbal abuses at them. As he yammered, he would grin and gesture wildly, secure in the knowledge that no matter what comeback he heard, he would always have an answer. Unfortunately for Payton, he never led his team to the Promised Land, even if he won a title as a role player in Miami. Like Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, Patrick Ewing, and Reggie Miller, Payton and his foul mouth could never muster enough venom to slide past Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls.

Number 4

Shannon Sharpe

Retiring with three Super Bowl rings and the NFL record for most receptions by a tight end, Shannon Sharpe has earned his right to brag and boast. As a dominant receiver with the Denver Broncos in the mid-'90s, Sharpe was known to get pretty creative with his on-field banter -- in part because of his unique and clever sense of humor. On Ray Buchanan, "I'm not gonna get into a peeing contest with a skunk -- you'll lose every time." On the Colts' run defense, "Home Depot doesn't sell enough nails and plywood to fix what's wrong with that defense."

Number 3

Larry Bird

Larry Bird may have been as great as Michael Jordan. Equipped with the same undaunted pride and confidence in his own ability, Bird was a great showman. Like an assassin, Larry Legend took an almost sadistic pleasure in massacring opponents. After demonstrating his basketball greatness on the floor, Bird would often finish the job by recapping his exploits, bragging in order to rub salt in the wounds he had exposed and exploited over and over again.

Number 2

Michael Jordan

In the '80s and '90s, trash talking was high art, and Michael Jordan was the king of the castle. In a game against the Denver Nuggets, Jordan stepped to the foul line and told rookie Dikembe Mutombo that he would shoot the free throw with his eyes closed. Before he did, he looked at Mutombo and said, "This one's for you." Then he closed his eyes, hit the shot and told Mutombo, "Welcome to the NBA."

Throughout his career, Jordan craved a psychological edge, and trash talking helped him see opponents as potential victims that he could demoralize by winning both the game and the war of words. Most importantly, there was always a purpose to Jordan's trash talking, as if predicting something was the catalyst he needed to just do it. The most humbling part for opponents must have been the trash-talking aftermath, when Jordan would get in his defender's face with a big grin and recap the great move he had just made at their expense

Number 1

Muhammad Ali

As Shannon Sharpe once put it, Ali is the trash talking "gold standard." But unlike many boxers today, including Floyd Mayweather, Ali insulted his opponents with a wink that acknowledged his insults as part of the show. During the glorious Ali-Frazier era of the early '70s, Ali regularly mocked Frazier's intelligence and looks, noting that "Joe Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wildlife." In addition to everything else, Ali was a comedian. Then, in the build-up to the notorious Thrilla in Manila, Ali prophesied that, "It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila."

FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: oldwgms.bonnit.net


Feminizing Football

(Indianapolis - AP) -Carol Stout says women won't be stuck in the kitchen on Super Bowl Sunday making nachos. She says the ladies will be watching the game-and making bets just like the guys.

Stout is the author of "The Chick's Guide to Football: A Complete Guide to Tight Ends." The Indianapolis author says a growing number of women have a new appreciation for the game of football. Stout believes football really is for women. She asks whey else would they have the players wear such tight pants?
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