Fw: Quotes from the sports arena (No Audi content)(but worthwhile)

["Dave Aukerman" <mhauk@ccsdana.net>]

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> Subject: WHY ARE THEY SO RICH?
> Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 19:48:42 -0600
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> I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes."
> ***Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh
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> "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like
> Norman Einstein."
> ***Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann  1996
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> "You guys line up alphabetically by height." "You guys pair up in groups
> of three, then line up in a circle."
> ***Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach
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> Clemson recruit Ray Forsythe, who was ineligible as a freshman
> because of academic requirements: "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."
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> Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson hooking up again with
> promoter Don King: "Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter?
> He went to prison for three years, not Princeton."
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> Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a
> color photo of himself above his locker: "That's so when I forget how to
> spell my name, I can still find my #%@# clothes."
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> Shaquille O'Neal on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit
> to Greece: "I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went
> to."
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> Shaquille O'Neal, on his lack of championships: "I've won at every level,
> except college and pro."
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> Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of
> heavyweight
> Andrew Golota: "He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning
> regardless
> of what time it is."
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> 1981 - Tommy Lasorda , Dodger manager, when asked what terms
> Mexican-born pitching sensation Fernando Valenzuela might settle for  in
> his upcoming contract negotiations: "He wants Texas back.
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> 1966 - Darrell Royal, Texas football coach, asked if the abnormal number
> of Longhorn injuries that season resulted from poor physical
conditioning:
> "One player was lost because he broke his nose.  How do you go about
> getting a nose in condition for football?"
> 
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> 1981 - Mike McCormack, coach of the hapless Baltimore Colts after the
> team's co-captain, offensive guard Robert Pratt, pulled a hamstring
> running onto the field for the coin toss against St. Louis: "I'm going to
> send the injured reserve players out for the toss next time."
> 
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> 1991 -Steve Spurrier, Florida football coach, telling Gator fans that a
> fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books:  "But the real
tragedy
> was that 15 hadn't been colored yet."
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> 1986 - Jim Finks, New Orleans Saints GM, when asked after a loss what he
> thought
> of the refs: "I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating."
> 
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> 1991 - Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, on racing Saturday nights as
> opposed to Sunday afternoons: "It's basically the same, just darker."
> 
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> 1996 - Lincoln Kennedy, Oakland Raiders tackle, on his decision not to
> vote: "I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot."
> 
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> 1991 - Jim Colletto, Purdue football coach and former assistant at
> Arizona State and Ohio State, on his 11-year-old son's reaction after he
> took the job with the Boilermakers:  "He said: 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's
> we're not going to any more bowl games."
> 
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> 1986 - LaVell Edwards, BYU football coach and one of 14 children:
> "They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets."
> 
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> 1991 - 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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> 1991 - Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John
> Jenkins: "He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."
> 
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> 1992- Pat Williams, Orlando Magic general manager, on his team's 7-27
> record: "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."
> 
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> 1982 - 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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> "I can shoot with my left hand,  & I can shoot with my right hand.  Darn,
I
> must be amphibious". --1986--Charles Shackleford-NC State basketball
> player speaking to reporters..
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> 1987 - 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."
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