Famous sports quotes

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Ok, it's kinda slow. Try this.

New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked about the upcoming
season: "I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes
first."

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Here's another one.

Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M, recounting what he
told a player who received four F's and one D: "Son, looks to me like
you're spending too much time on one subject."

[PPHSfan]

One of my favorites.....

"Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck."
Don Schula.

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One more.....

"The word aerobics came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down."
Rita Rudner

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I got a million of 'em.

And, upon hearing Joe Jacobi of the 'Skins say: "I'd run over my own
mother to win the Super Bowl," Matt Millen of the Raiders said: "To
win, I'd run over Joe's Mom, too."

[BURNETRULZ]

One of my favorites,

Running back from San Antonio was being interviewed by a TV station and was asked, "Which college are you going to play for?"
He said, "UT or A&M.
"Are you going to major in Physical Education?"

"Nope. PE"

I think it was a Judson RB. :p

[MR.T TARPON21]

how about , show me the money!

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My last one for today.

Amarillo High School and Oiler coach Bum Phillips when asked by Bob Costas why he takes his wife on all the road trips, Phillips responded: "Because she is too damn ugly to kiss good-bye.”

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Chuck Nevitt, North Carolina State basketball player, explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice:

"My sister's expecting a baby and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt."

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Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player:

"I told him, 'Son, what is it with you: Is it ignorance or apathy?'

He said, " 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'"

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"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body"

(Winston Bennett)

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"I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father"
(Greg Norman)

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Ok one more on Bum Phillips talking about how good another coach is.

"He can take hisn's and beat you with hisn's or he can take yourins and beat you with yourins."

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With this post I become a varsity member, so I figured I'd make it a good one:

"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious"
(Alan Minter)

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Ok, I know this isn't a "famous" quote, but I did find it to be pretty funny. As I writer for the high school newspaper, I was covering tryouts for something that will go unmentioned in case people from Forney realize who said it. But anyway, I asked what tryouts were like, and this is the response I got:

"It's like doing a solo -- by yourself!"

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"I don't know. Never had one"
-- Darrell K Royal to Mack Brown on how to coach a team after a losing season