Sports Quotes

[SlowwHand]

Sports have always had interesting characters, and with them are interesting quotes.

"Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure." - Knute Rockne



Do you have any quotes that you're particularly fond of?

[Tuberski]

Quotes From Yogi Berra

"All pitchers are liars or crybabies."

"A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore." Source: Baseball Digest (June 1987)

"Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical."

"Bill Dickey is learning me his experience."

"He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious."

"How can a you hit and think at the same time?"

"I always thought that record would stand until it was broken."

"I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five."

"I don't know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads."

"If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?"

"I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary."

"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."

"In baseball, you don't know nothing."

"I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?"

"I never said most of the things I said."

"It ain't the heat, it's the humility."

"It gets late early out there."

"I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house."

"It's like deja vu all over again."

"I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field."

"Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets." Source: Catcher in the Wry (Bob Uecker)

"Ninety percent of this game is half mental." Source: Sports Illustrated (May 14, 1979)

"Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded."

"So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face."

"The game's isn't over until it's over."

"The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase."

"You can observe a lot just by watching."

"We made too many wrong mistakes."

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

Quotes About Yogi Berra

"He'd fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch." - Casey Stengel

"He seemed to be doing everything wrong, yet everything came out right. He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it." - Mel Ott

"They say he's funny. Well, he has a lovely wife and family, a beautiful home, money in the bank, and he plays golf with millionaires. What's funny about that?" - Casey Stengel

"Right now, (Yogi) Berra does about everything wrong, but Casey (Stengel) warned me about that. The main thing is he has speed and agility behind the plate and a strong enough arm. He just needs to be taught to throw properly. I know he can hit. I'd say Berra has the makings of a good catcher. I won't say great, but certainly a good one." - Bill Dickey

"Why has our pitching been so great? Our catcher that's why. He looks cumbersome but he's quick as a cat." - Casey Stengel

"Yogi (Berra) had the fastest bat I ever saw. He could hit a ball late, that was already past him, and take it out of the park. The pitchers were afraid of him because he'd hit anything, so they didn't know what to throw. Yogi had them psyched out and he wasn't even trying to psych them out." - Hector Lopez

"Yogi (Berra), I came up here to hit, not to read." - Hank Aaron in the 1958 World Series & an answer to Berra after being told to turn his bat around so he could 'read' the label and not break the bat

"Yogi (Berra), you are from St. Louis, we live in New Jersey, and you played ball in New York. If you go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?" - Carmen Berra (Yogi's wife) "Surprise me." - Yogi Berra

"You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different." - Dale Berra

ACK!

[SlowwHand]

Those are all good. Perfect ending.

[Lord Avalon]

"He ... could ... go ... all ... the ... way." - Howard Cosell

"Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!" - Howard Cosell

"Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport … The thrill of victory … and the agony of defeat… the human drama of athletic competition… This is ABC's Wide World of Sports! ” - Jim McKay (written by Stanley Ralph Ross)

"Now Clay swings with a right
What a beautiful swing
And the punch raises the bear
Clear out of the ring
Liston is still rising
And the ref wears a frown
For he can't start counting
Till Sonny comes down"
-Cassius Clay

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Your hands can't hit what your eyes can't see.
Rumble, young man, rumble!
- Muhammad Ali

"I'm the king of the world, I am the greatest, I’m Muhammad Ali. I shook up the world, I am the greatest, I'm king of the world, I'm pretty, I'm pretty, I'm a bad man, you heard me I'm a bad man. Archie Moore fell in four, Liston wanted me more, so since he's so great, I'm a make him fall in eight, I'm a bad man, I'm king of the world! I'm 22 years old and ain’t got a mark on my face, I'm pretty, I easily survived six rounds with that ugly bear, because I am the greatest."

[snoopy369]

"They were who we thought they were."

[snoopy369]

Also, "I don’t believe what I just saw" and “In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened,” both quotes I remember from what was only the second world series I watched. My brother was a dodgers' fan, and my mother hated the A's with a passion, so of course I was rooting for the A's ... but I remember rooting for Gibson a bit then, even so.

[SlowwHand]

"Do you believe in miracles?"... " Yes!" ~ broadcaster Al Michaels

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
"Do you believe in miracles?"... " Yes!" ~ broadcaster Al Michaels

I remember watching that. Incredible!

[Lord Avalon]

Playoffs?! Don't talk about ... playoffs?!?! You kidding me??? Playoffs?!?!

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by snoopy369
"They were who we thought they were."

Dennis Green

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Lord Avalon
Playoffs?! Don't talk about ... playoffs?!?! You kidding me??? Playoffs?!?!

I love that everytime I see that rerun on Coors

Jim Mora

[Grandpa Troll]

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best-I have heard this all my life it seems not sure who spoke it first though??

Havlieck stole the ball, Havlicek stole the ball-Johnny Most


When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
Bobby Knight

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi

[Supr49er]

"Our backs were against the wall".
"Nobody believed in us, but we believed in ourselves".
"Everyone threw us under the bus".
"We'll win if we play the way we're capable"

Practically every athlete ever

[Tuberski]

"He never hurt me."

Almost any boxer that has ever been knocked down or out.

ACK!

[Asher]

"Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be." -- The Great One

"I"m not dumb enough to be a goalie." -- Brett Hull

"There are two types of forwards. Scorers and bangers. Scorers score and bangers bang." -- Ken Dryden

When Miroslav Satan puts his credit card out to pay bills, he says "They ask me, "Is this really your name?"" His standard response: "Only in America."

"Part of the learning curve in Edmonton is learning to hate Calgary." -- The Infamous Steve Smith

"One road trip we were stuck on the runway for seven hours. The plane kept driving and driving until we arrived at the rink and I realized we were on a bus." - Glenn Healy

"Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive." - Stephen Leacock

"A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can"t hit one another." - Jimmy Cannon

And of course:
"I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out." - Rodney Dangerfield