FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: wikipedia.com

BASKETBALL QUOTES
Web site presents quotes by Abe Lemons., basketball coach
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"You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody."
to broadcaster Howard Cosell
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"If you had come with me, you could be the principal of a high school by now."
to Johnny Bench, whom he tried to recruit with at Oklahoma City University.
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"Damn referees. I'll miss them less than anybody."
after losing his final game by one point, in a bid for victory No. 600
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"Hey, some places this would be a foul!"
while at the scorers' table holding up a tooth that had been dislodged from the mouth of his player, James Washington
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"That foul wouldn't have killed a gnat."
after losing his final game on a free throw after a disputed foul
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"How hard is it to coach track? Tell 'em to stay to the left and get back as fast as you can."
after being fired by Texas Athletics Director and former Kansas State track coach DeLoss Dodds
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"I never substitute just to substitute. I play my regulars. The only way a guy gets off the floor is if he dies."
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"At Pan American one year the only player coming back was named Tree McCullough. But hell, his name could have been Stumpy."
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"It was the toughest seven man zone we faced all year."
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"I'm not playing favorites. All my favorites have graduated."
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"We ran all over Texas-Arlington last season, 84-83. Ozie and Rich scored 71 points for us. After the game a reporter asked me how I thought we'd have done without them. I said, "Figure it out for yourself. We'da got beat 83-13."
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" We went to Alaska once and they made us honorary Alaskans. Then we went to Hawaii and they made us honorary Hawaiians. We're going to the Virgin Islands this year."
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"I was at OCU 23 years and today I can give you the addresses of every kid who played for me, and what he's doing now. To me, that's what coaching is all about."
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When asked how to stop illegal recruiting Abe said, "Just give every coach the same amount of money and tell them they can keep what’s left over."
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"It was a hole in one contest and I had a three."
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