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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Friday, December 7, 2007

FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: baseball-almanac.com

GOLF HUMOR

50 Reasons why Golf is Better than Baseball

1. Golfers don't spit and scratch their privates on national television.

2. Golfers don't kick dirt on other people.

3. Golf is an honorable game played by an overwhelming majority of honorable people who don't need referees.

4. Golfers don't have big muscles and therefore are able to walk past a mirror without looking into it.

5. Golfers are compensated in direct proportion to how well they play.

6. The PGA Tour raises more money for charity in one year than the National Football League does in two.

7. Albert Belle doesn't play pro golf.

8. Pro golfers can answer a question without having to wait till they see the videotape.

9. When pro golfers hit a foul ball, they don't get another chance. They either are penalized or they have to go find it and hit it again.

10. Pro golfers throw things to fans, not at them.

11. People don't ruin their lives betting on the outcome of golf tournaments.

12. Baseball, basketball and football players play golf when they retire. Pro golfers don't play baseball, basketball and football when they retire.

13. You can play golf by yourself.

14. George Steinbrenner doesn't have a team on the PGA Tour.

15. No golfer has ever told a reporter or a group of reporters that he or she is the greatest ever to play the game.

16. Golf doesn't have training camp and overpriced exhibition games.

17. It is virtually impossible to "fix'' a pro golf tournament.

18. Golf fans don't throw things at the players.

19. When pro golfers make a mistake, there is nobody there to cover for them or back them up.

20. Michael Jordan wishes he were a pro golfer.

21. Kids are never murdered over a pair of golf shoes.

22. Golfers call their own plays.

23. You can see the best golfers in the world up close at the U.S. Open all day, every day, for $25 or $30. It'll cost you $275 for a ticket in the nosebleed section of the Super Bowl.

24. Pro golfers don't charge $20 or more for an autograph.

25. In pro golf, you can't fail 70 percent of the time and make $9 million per season.

26. Golf lessons don't include tips on how to break the rules and get away with it.

27. Golfers don't hold out for more money, or demand new contracts.

28. Golfers don't get a per diem and two seats on a chartered airplane when they travel from one tournament to the next.

29. Golfers don't do everything possible to disrupt the play of their opponents.

30. Golfers do their own laundry.

31. Golf doesn't have a 3-stroke shot.

32. Golfers don't lobby to get something they haven't earned with their clubs.

33. Golfers don't claim that it takes exceptional intelligence to play their game well.

34. Golf doesn't change its rules to attract more fans.

35. Pro golfers don't have bodyguards or entourages.

36. Pro golfers don't have closed practices.

37. Pro golfers keep their clothes on while they're being interviewed.

38. Greg Norman shakes your hand and says he is happy to meet you; Jose Canseco wears T-shirts that say "Leave me alone.''

39. Pro golfers don't get in fights in bars.

40. Pro golfers never say "I just want some respect.''

41. Children don't have to "take it like a man'' to play golf.

42. Pro golfers don't feel cheated because the game owes them something.

43. Pro golfers can't substitute for themselves when they're having a bad day.

44. Pro golfers don't taunt or punch each other.

45. Not only does nobody levy fines against pro golfers who choose not to practice, but nobody cares.

46. Pro golf doesn't have free agency.

47. Pro golfers don't try to renegotiate their earnings.

48. Fat people and skinny people can play golf.

49. Pro golfers can't abuse alcohol and drugs and be successful.

50. You can hear birds chirping at a pro golf tournament. You hear a steady stream of four-letter words and nasty name-calling in stadiums and arenas while you're hoping nobody spills beer on you.

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Funny Sports Quotes \ Source: baseballprospectus.com

BASEBALL QUOTES

"I don't want to sound like Manny Ramirez, but it wasn't the end of the world."
--Mavericks forward Jerry Stackhouse, on the Mavericks' first-round playoff exit. (Eddie Sefko, Dallas Morning News)

"It's numbing more than anything else. You're almost aesthetically going around the bases."
--Fox analyst Tim McCarver on hitting a walk-off home run. (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

"I was so glad when Yom Kippur came around. I'd always ask when his days off were because I knew I'd get some hits if he wasn't pitching."
--Willie Mays on Sandy Koufax. (Stefan Stevenson, Fort-Worth Star Telegram)

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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Funny Sports Quotes \ Source: hockeyadventure.com

HOCKEY QUOTES

"You know what they say, 'Behind every good man, there's a great woman.' Not that I'm saying I'm a good man." — Sandis Ozolinsh of the San Jose Sharks on the support he's gotten from his wife Sandra in his fight against alcoholism and return to the NHL. (For 35, he's not a bad "Wizard of Oz" so far, with five points in 12 games.)

"[Brent] Sopel told me to do it. Somebody told me it was a joke. I don't even know anymore. It was just a nice thing to do for the boys." — Nineteen-year-old Chicago Blackhawks rookie Patrick Kane on his decision to give each of his teammates a custom-labeled bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon to celebrate his first NHL goal against the Colorado Avalanche. (Don't be fooled by the modesty: Kane now goes by "Big Daddy.")

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Monday, November 26, 2007

FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: dailymail.co.uk

SPORTS QUOTES

TENNIS

"I just couldn't lose to a bloke wearing a shirt like that,"

Lleyton Hewitt following his US Open victory over Dominik Hrbaty, who wore a pink and black shirt with two oval holes cut out of the back.

GOLF

"They don't let you smoke or drink in gyms so you know I'm not going to have any fun doing that."

- John Daly plays it straight as he insists he has no plans to pump iron.


"I am 42 now and supposed to be going downhill. It's nice to go the other way."

- Colin Montgomerie on the resurgence in his game which saw him continue his red-hot form.

FORMULA ONE

"One zigged when he should have zagged"

- Minardi spokesman on a collision between Chanoch Nissany, the first Israeli to drive a F1 car, and Dutch team mate Christijan Albers during a Minardi test at Mugello on an otherwise empty circuit.

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Funny Sports Quotes \ Source: fun-football.com

  • SPORTS QUOTES
  • Jimmy Hill: Don't sit on the fence Terry, what chance do you think Germany has got of getting through? Terry Venables: I think it's fifty - fifty
  • "If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim" Berti Vogts, German coach
  • "You don't have to have been a horse to be a jockey" Arrigo Sacchi, Italy coach, defending a meagre playing record.
  • "Love is good for footballers, as long as it is not at half-time" Richard Moller Nielsen, Denmark coach
  • "I was about to say, before something far more interesting interrupted" John Motson, France v Bulgaria
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  • Sunday, November 25, 2007

    Funny Sports Quotes \ Source: sayings.funnyjunkz.com

    SPORTS QUOTES
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    Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
    - Joe Frazier
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    All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
    - Jack Dempsey
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    Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
    - Lord Charles Beresford
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    People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs
    - Anonymous
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    A mother is neither cocky, nor proud, because she knows the school principal may call at any minute to report that her child had just driven a motorcycle through the gymnasium.
    - Mary Kay Blakely
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    The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
    - Billy Graham
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    Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at it.
    - Jimmy Demaret
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    The essence of fencing is to give, but by no means to receive.
    - Moliere
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    Good shot, bad luck, and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.
    - Virginia Graham

    Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
    - Jackie Robinson

    Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.
    - Bobby Charlton

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    Funny Sports Quotes \ Source: 21stcenturypaladin.com

    SPORTS QUOTES

    Muhammad Ali
    "I don't always know what I'm talking about but I know I'm right."

    Carmelo Anthony
    "It will work out, somehow. That's a hell of a duo right there, Marbury, Crawford and Houston." [Assessing the future of the 2004-05 Knicks.]

    Patrick Ewing
    "We might make a lot of money but, we also spend a lot of money."

    Kevin Garnett
    "They're really aggressive. They're like roaches on bread - you drop some on the floor and, boom, they're on it." [On Miami's defense.]

    Martina Hingis
    "I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier
    than all the other women in sports."

    John Kerr
    "I would get close to him and breathe on his goggles." [When asked how he would guard somebody like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

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    Saturday, November 24, 2007

    Funny Sports Quotes \ Source: insidesports.com

    "There's only one legend. That's me. That's right, it's me. Everybody says it: black, white. Everybody calls me a legend: Italians, Jews. Everybody."
    – Roberto Duran was obviously inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame based on his humility.

    "It will come down to how the horse performs on the day and how the jockey performs on the day, because you'll know that they'll all be trained to the minute."
    – Leading jockey Glen Boss completes a rare cliché trifecta in the lead-up to the Cox Plate.

    "Hey, I was having a shit."
    – Finn Kimi Raikkonen explains to British broadcaster ITV why he missed Pele's presentation of a gold trophy to Michael Schumacher, who retired after the Brazilian Grand Prix.

    “I don’t know what my split was for the 50m, but I’m sure I haven’t swum that fast in years.”– US Olympic swimmer Gary Hall Jr, who survived a shark attack while spearfishing with his sister off the Florida coast

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