Famous/Awkward/Funny Sports Quotes...

trickblue

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We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play."
-Pat Williams (76'ers GM)

“When you get that nice celebration coming into the dugout and you’re getting your arse hammered by guys—there’s no better feeling than to have that done."
-Matt Stairs (Phillies)

"The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back."
-Steve Garvey (Dodgers)

"Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them!"
-Jimmy Demaret (Golfer)

"Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."
-Bill Shankly (Soccer Player/Manager)

“Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.”
“It ain’t over till it’s over.”
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
-Yogi Berra (Yankees)

“I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you’re the one talking.”
-Gordie Howe (Hockey Legend)

"I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling."
-Joe Namath (Jets)

"To be the man, you have to beat the man."
-Ric Flair (Wrestler)

"When my time on Earth is gone, and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ***."
-Bobby Knight (Basketball Legend)

"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break."
-John Madden

"The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex."
-Carl Everett (Red Sox)

"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
-Joe Theesman (Arrogant SOB)

"Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something."
-Dennis Rodman (Bulls)

"If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out!"
-George Brett (Royals)

"It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course."
-Hank Aaron (Braves)

"What's the difference between a 3-week-old puppy and a sportswriter? In six weeks, the puppy stops whining."
-Ditka​
 

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"To be the man, you have to beat the man."
-Ric Flair (Wrestler)

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It is hard to beat John McKay after his Tampa Buccaneers lost a game badly. He was so deadpan in his delivery more than a few thought he was serious. Maybe he was.

























Coach, what do you think of your teams execution?

"I am in favor of it."
 

Khartun

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burmafrd;4204034 said:
It is hard to beat John McKay after his Tampa Buccaneers lost a game badly. He was so deadpan in his delivery more than a few thought he was serious. Maybe he was.




Coach, what do you think of your teams execution?

"I am in favor of it."

:laugh1:

that's good stuff.
 

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Johan Cyruff (a famous soccer player turned coach) asked this to one of his players "Son, are you on birth control?" "No," the player replied. Cyruff responds "then why can't you give birth to perfectly good cross?"
 

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No Jim Mora?

Playoffs???...Playoffs???

Or Lee Elia's meltdown at Wrigley Field.

Tom Lasorda's meltdown.

I like meltdowns...I love when coaches go Krakatoa in front of a microphone.
 

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A couple from the most successful Celtic manager of all time Jock Stein.
"Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players"
"Football without fans is nothing"

George Best, former Manchester United player and bit of a character.
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest i just squandered"

Ian Rush, Welsh footballer on his transfer from Liverpool in England to Juventus in Italy
"I couldn't settle in Italy, it was like living in a foreign country"

David Beckham
"I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened but we haven't decided which religion yet."

Sid Waddel, darts commentator
“The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in with a portion of chips, you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them”
“It's the nearest thing to public execution this side of Saudi Arabia.”
“He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave.”
“There's only one word for that - magic darts!”
“When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were no more worlds to conquer..... Bristow's only 27.”
 
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