SPORTS QUOTES
from athletes, coaches, sportscasters
and a couple of fans
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- Mike Ditka:
A big factor in the game was the number of points scored.
- Nick Zito:
A lot of horses get distracted. It's just human nature.
- voice on ESPN radio:
A lot of the seats were half empty.
- Ray French:
And he's got the icepack on his groin there, so it's possibly not the old
shoulder injury.
- David Coleman:
And here's Moses Kiptanui, the 19-year-old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.
- sportscaster:
And later on, it's the Syracuse Orangemen against the Indiana Hoosiers from
Hawaii.
- Bill Derne:
And now, coming into the game is the five-ton junior from Canton, Ohio.
- Frank Herzog:
And Referee Richie Powers called the loose bowel foul on Johnson.
- Kenny Dalgeish:
As I say, if we score more goals than them, then we'll win.
- John Sleightholme:
As Phil DeGlenville said, each game is unique, and this one is no different to
any other.
- David Thompson:
Ball handling and dribbling are my strongest weaknesses.
- Bill Parcells:
Concentration-wise, we're having trouble crossing the line mentally from a
toughness standpoint.
- sportscaster referring to Tony Romo:
Consistently, he's not able to do that all the time.
- sportscaster:
Dallas uses its second timeout to stop the clock.
The Russler:
Isn't that always the purpose?
- reporter:
Did you visit the Parthenon when you went to Greece?
Shaquille O'Neal:
I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.
- Diane Sawyer:
Do you think the Pirates would have a better chance of beating the Rams
than the Patriots do?
- Jerry Coleman:
Enos Cabell started here with the Astros. And before that he was with
the Orioles.
- Jerry Coleman:
Eric Show will be oh for ten if that pop fly comes down.
- Phil Watson to reporters:
Gentlemen, I have nothing to say. Any questions?
- Vince Ferragamo:
He never relinquishes my disbelief.
- Don King:
He speaks English, Spanish, and he's bilingual too.
- Torrin Polk:
He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings.
- Lou Duva:
He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time
it is.
- sportscaster:
Here's Hodge on the breakaway! He's all by himself. He shoots. And Hodge
missed the goal! He'll be thinking about that one for a while! Just
look at the expression on Hodge's stick!
- Marty Noble:
How come you're wearing argyle socks?
Randy Myers:
I'm not. I got these at Woolworth's.
- reporter:
How is racing on Saturday nights instead of Sunday afternoons?
Alan Kulwicki:
It's basically the same, just darker.
- Vince Ferragamo:
How they arrived at their conclusions behooves me.
- commentator:
Howard Kahn, a lecturer at Edinburgh's Heriot Watt University, has studied the
matter intently and says he's figured out why Scottish soccer teams can't
seem to win World Cup and other competitions. They're not good players.
- John Daly:
I couldn't care less about all those fiction stories about what happened in the
year 1500 or 1600. Half of them aren't even true.
- Vince Ferragamo:
I don't like to look back in retrospect.
- Dan Quisenberry:
I found a delivery in my flaw.
- Casey Stengel:
I got a little concerned yesterday in the first three innings when I saw the
three players I had gotten rid of, and I said when I lost nine what am I going
to do and when I had a couple of my players I thought so great of that did
not do so good up to the sixth inning I was more confused but I finally had to
go and call on a young man from Baltimore that we don't own and the Yankees
don't own him, and he is doing pretty good, and I would actually have to tell
you that I think we are more the Greta Garbo type now from success.
Mickey Mantle:
My views are just about the same as Casey's.
- Johnny Logan:
I know the name, but I can't replace the face.
- Magic Johnson:
I only know how to play two ways and that's reckless and abandon.
- Greg Norman:
I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.
- Ray Forsythe:
I play football. I'm not trying to be a professor. The tests don't seem to
make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven't been through in
school.
- Frank Bruno:
I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost.
- Terry Venables:
If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.
- Marlon Starling:
I'll fight Lloyd Honeyghan for nothing if the price is right.
- senior basketball player:
I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.
- Zane Smith:
I'm not blind to hearing what everybody else hears.
- Shaquille O'Neal:
I've won at every level, except college and pro.
- Mike Greenwell:
I'm a four-wheel-drive-pickup kind of guy, and so is my wife.
- miniature golfer:
I'm winning so bad!
- Jimmy Hill:
If England are going to win this match, they're going to have to score a goal.
- reporter:
Is the team having a morale problem?
Danny Ozark:
Morality at this time isn't a factor.
- reporter to Don Larsen, who had just pitched a perfect game:
Is that the best game you ever pitched?
- Frank Frisch:
It's a beautiful day for a night game.
- sportscaster:
It's now 1 to 1, an exact reversal of the score on Saturday.
- Lex, of "The Lex And Terry Show":
It's the biggest low the Cowboys have suffered.
- Murray Walker:
Just under ten seconds for Nigel Mansel. Call it 9.5 seconds in round numbers.
- Jerry Coleman:
Larry Lintz steals second standing up. He slid, but he didn't have to.
- sportscaster:
Last night one of the Maverick's (basketball team's) heavy hitters returned to the court.
- Don's friend:
My friend Don, a minor league umpire, is used to being heckled by fans. But
imagine his surprise when he was rushing to umpire an exhibition game at
Coors Field in Denver. After a long search for a place to change clothes,
Don finally located a room with a neatly lettered sign: "Dressing Room,
Umpires Only." As he was about to go in, however, he inspected the sign
more closely. Below the printed legend was the same
message . . . printed in Braille.
- Chuck Nevitt:
My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or
an aunt.
- Joe Theismann:
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman
Einstein.
- sportscaster during a Bears game:
Normally in Chicago, you always have some kind of weather.
- Darryl Dawkins:
Nothing means nothing, but it isn't really nothing because nothing is something
that isn't.
- Jason Kidd:
Now that I'm here, we'll turn the program around 360 degrees.
- reporter:
One of your players received four F's and one D. What did you tell him?
Shelby Metcalf:
Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject.
- Darrell Royal:
One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a
nose in condition for football?
- Barry Switzer:
Our goal is to score 27 points. If we can get two touchdowns and three field
goals, we've got our 27 points.
- Jerry Coleman:
Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.
- Chad The Blisterboy:
Physically, it's a physical game.
- Johnny Logan:
Rome wasn't born in a day.
- Frank Layden:
Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?
basketball player:
I don't know and I don't care.
- Mike MacFarlane:
That was a maximization of a minimization of hits.
- sportscaster during an Alabama-LSU game:
That was this year's game of the century.
- Jack Kraft:
That was the nail that broke the coffin's back.
- Stu Grimson, speaking of his photo on his locker:
That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes.
- Brian Marwood:
That's twice now he has got between himself and the goal.
- Curt Gowdy:
The Baltimore Colts are a bright young team. It seems as if they have their
future ahead of them.
- sportscaster:
The coach said the team might be a big factor in the game.
- sportscaster with no knowledge of music:
The crowd noise has gone up several octaves since the beginning of the game!
- Mark Beech in "The People's Team":
The defense sacked Gabriel five times, with Jordan accounting for three and a half all by himself.
The Russler:
How do you get a half sack all by yourself?
- sportscaster:
The extra point is no good!
Robert Scott:
Then it isn't an extra point, is it?
- Murray Walker:
The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.
- Tony Crozier:
The Queen's Park Oval, exactly as its name suggests, is absolutely round.
- Gerry Fraley:
The Rangers dropped out of the lead June 16 with a loss that will be forever
remembered as the forgettable debut of lefthander Matt Perisho.
- Dizzy Dean:
The series is already won, but I don't know by which team.
- Casey Stengel:
There comes a time in every man's life at least once, and I've had plenty of
them.
- Alan Minter:
There have been injuries and deaths in boxing, but none of them serious.
- sportscaster:
These two teams are mirror images of themselves.
The Russler:
Aren't all teams mirror images of themselves?
- Sam Quevares:
They can say what they want, but playoff hockey is a whole other ballgame.
- Harvey Kuenn:
They had us with the walls to our back.
- sportscaster:
They may have regained all 40 yards. In fact, they may have.
- Kevin Appier:
Things started to snowplow.
- David Coleman:
This evening is a very different evening from the morning we had this morning.
- sportscaster:
This is a big rivalry for both teams.
The Russler:
As opposed to a rivalry for only one of them.
- Jerry Coleman:
Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.
- The Russler:
To what do you attribute last night's loss?
Dale Neal:
To the fact that they scored more points than we did.
- Vince Sculley:
Today, Pittsburgh beat the Pirates, 6 to 6!
- Bill Peterson:
We are not going to be any three-clouds-and-a-yard-of-dust team.
- Pat Williams:
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.
- Bobby Robson:
We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.
- Tim Raynor:
We got that first down by the nose of our chinny-chin-chin.
- Murray Walker:
We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race,
only exactly the opposite.
- Larry Breck:
We only have one person to blame, and that's each other.
- reporter:
What contract terms do you think Fernando Valenzuela would settle for?
Tommy Lasorda:
He wants Texas back.
- reporter:
What did you think about the collective bargaining proposal?
Gary Payton, making $2,700,000 per year:
People would have to cut their lifestyle, and they'd live like
penny-pinchers.
- reporter:
What did you think of the job the referees did?
Jim Finks:
I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating.
- reporter:
What do you think of Tiger Woods?
Sandy Lyle:
I don't know. I've never played there.
- Bryant Reeves:
What happens to me next year will happen to me no matter what happens.
- Casey Stengel:
When a fielder gets the pitcher in trouble, the pitcher has to pitch
himself out of the slump he isn't in.
- Clayton Williams:
When I played football, we were small, but we were slow. Our record was five
and five; we lost five games at home and five on the road.
- Keith Whitmire, Dallas Morning News:
While letting Plano East roll up 365 yards of offense, North Garland only
prevented a bigger route [sic] by pouncing on the six turnovers.
- reporter:
Who do you think is the number one player of all time?
Johnny Logan:
I'd have to go with the immoral Babe Ruth.
- reporter:
Why didn't you vote?
Lincoln Kennedy:
I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot.
- reporter:
Will you be rooting for the American League or National League in the All Star
Game?
Bob Dole:
Probably.
- reporter:
Would you quit baseball if the Yankees lose the series to the Pirates?
Casey Stengel:
Well, I have given that thought a lot of thinking lately and last night,
well--I finally made up my mind.
reporter:
Which way?
Casey Stengel:
I made up my mind both ways.
- Sam Quevares:
You can throw anything in our house, but we'll just let it roll off our backs.
- Sparky Anderson:
You don't have enough smarts to straighten this out. This is unstraightable.
- Casey Stengel:
You have to remember that this team came up slow, but fast.