Dumbest Sports Quotes....

[The Great Escape]

“Left hand, right hand, it doesn’t matter. I’m amphibious.”.....former NC State basketball player Charles Shackleford

any one have other gems?

[underpants]

1. Ricky Henderson on playing winter ball in Puerto Rico

"I'll go as long as I can drive my (new) car"

[The Great Escape]

2. That Took Me a Second...

more than I would like to admit!

[Jokerman]

3. "All we need to do is score more points than the other team and we could win this game."

Color commentary I heard once long ago.

[The Great Escape]

7. I did hear former Pitt football coach Walt Harris...

say on a post game radio show that "hindsight was 50/50."

[underpants]

4. Not dumb but funny - John McKay

When he left USC to coach the dreadful start up Tampa Bay Bucs.

We didn't block anyone but we made up for it by not tackling anyone either.

When asked what he thought of his teams execution.... "I think it's a good idea"

[A Simple Game]

23. Those actually made me laugh, thanks. n/t

[Boom Sound 416]

5. Playoffs!

[First Speaker]

6. John McGraw on Babe Ruth becoming an outfielder...

..."If that big *&^%$* goes from pitching to hitting every day, he'll ground into a hundred double plays a year"...Oops...

[pokerfan]

8. We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees

Jason Kidd

[KamaAina]

9. "We're gonna go out there and give 110 percent!"

-just about every player and coach in sports history.

[sharp_stick]

10. Also John McKay (maybe)

and true or not it's funny.

Following a Tampa Bay Buccaneers loss in their early seasons, McKay was asked what he thought of his team's "execution." He replied, "I'm all for it".

[KamaAina]

11. Harvard beats Yale, 29-29.

From 1968.

[bigwillq]

15. Not too many bright folks up at Harvard

[KamaAina]

16. Remember, they gave Bush* an MBA

[underpants]

26. One of my favorite "30 for 30" ESPN documentaries

The people on both campuses at the time is amazing.

[progressoid]

35. Actually, there is a great documentary about that.

An extraordinary retelling of one of the most famous college football games in history, Kevin Raffertys HARVARD BEATS YALE 29-29 combines rare footage of the wildly unpredictable 1968 game with unguarded, politically-charged recollections from the original players. The two squads, both of which entered the contest undefeated, included a Vietnam vet as well as members of both paramilitary and antiwar groups; at Harvard, the team also included actor Tommy Lee Jones (who reminisces about his roommate Al Gore), while Yales star quarterback became the inspiration for B.D., the jock character in Garry Trudeaus Doonesbury comic strip. As Jones puts it, ideas were flying around like bullets — and as becomes clear by the end of the film, this was a social experience that resonated well beyond one Saturday afternoon on the playing field.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Beats_Yale_29-29

[valerief]

12. Quayle gem.

Bobby Knight told me this: "There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense." In other words a good offense wins.
-- Senator Dan Quayle, in a speech to the City Club of Chicago, comparing the offensive capabilities of the Warsaw Pact with the defensive system of NATO, 9/8/88 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

[valerief]

13. And more Quayle gems.

Just think what people would say if I said something like that.
-- Private Citizen Dan Quayle after being introduced as `Don Quayle' at the first tee a practice round of the AT&T Golf Tournament at Pebble Beach, 2/1/93.

If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle while at a job training center in Atlanta celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Job Training Partnership Act, which Quayle helped to sponsor while a senator, 10/13/92. (reported in the NY Times, 10/14/92).

Maybe you guys will get lucky this year and face the Orioles in the World Series.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle encouraging the Milwaukee Brewers after throwing out the opening pitch of the season. Both teams are in the American League. (5/3/92 Sunday Detroit News)

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, to the American Samoans, whose capital Quayle pronounces `Pogo Pogo', 4/25/89 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)

It's not to keep him from running off our property. It's to protect my putting green.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle telling a guest at his house why his dog, Breezy, wears a special collar that emits a painful jolt of electricity should the dog try to run away. (reported in the NY Daily News, 6/30/92 -- taken from The Quayle Quarterly, Summer/Fall 92)

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
-- Vice President Dan Quayle while at a Las Vegas bowling alley. The Vice President bowled 5 times, and knocked down 19 pins (6/25/92, San Jose Mercury News). The American Bowling Congress projected his score for a full game to be 76. The Detroit average for amateur players is 163 (USA Today, 7/6/92)

I take my children hiking and fishing, walking in the woods, in the wilderness.
-- Senator Dan Quayle offering proof of his commitment to the environment during the VP debate, 10/5/88 (from NYT transcript, 10/6/88)

I'm glad you asked me that. This gives me the perfect opportunity to talk about the problems with this Congress...
-- Vice President Dan Quayle responding to reporters' questions about his use of Air force 2 to go on golf trips at the cost of $26,000/hour.

[Brother Buzz]

14. I wonder if that's a hat tip to Yogi Berra

"He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious." — Yogi Berra

[rurallib]

17. Yogi had so many classics

When they moved him to the outfield (I believe left) his field was the one that the shadows started in at the end of the day. When asked how he liked it out there he said. "It's alright. But it gets late early out there."

Just thought of a couple more:
Yogi was interviewed by boyhood pal Joe Garagiola before a game of the week. The player interviewed would get $100 from the sponsor. When Yogi got the check, it was 'Pay to the order of' and the name was filled in "Bearer." Yogi went to Garagiola and asked "Joe, did you forget how to spell my name?"

In another interview, Berra (who was considered to be a great hitter of pitches out of the strike zone) was asked "Why do you swing at so many bad pitches?"
Yogi responded "I never swing at no bad pitches."

[Brother Buzz]

18. Just the titles of a few of his books are classics in their own right:

# Yogi: It Ain't Over (1989)
# The Yogi Book: 'I Really Didn't Say Everything I Said (1998)
# When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes (2001)
# What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All (2002)
# You Can Observe a Lot by Watching (2011)

I read two of his books and totally enjoyed them, but haven't a clue as to which two.

[panader0]

20. "nobody goes there, it's too crowded"

[Brother Buzz]

21. A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.'

I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

[underpants]

27. Yogi Berra gets a pizza

"They guy asked me if I wanted it cut into 6 slices or 8. I said, better make it 6. I don't think I can eat 8.

[Scuba]

30. When asked about a ball that bounced between his legs, Yogi replied ...

... "If it had been a foot higher, it would of killed me."

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

33. "Ninety percent of the game is half mental"

[Brother Buzz]

34. Ninety percent of putts that are short don't go in

[Reter]

19. Not a personal quote from anyone, but I always though "he plays to win" was ridiculous

Do you seriously know anybody who plays to lose?

[A Simple Game]

24. Don't have any children do you? n/t

[Reter]

31. I don't get what your saying

So my little leaguer loses on purpose?

[A Simple Game]

32. No your little leaguer doesn't lose on purpose.

But didn't you lose to your little leaguer on purpose sometimes?

Play horse with a basketball with a young child and let them win on purpose? Chutes and ladders, checkers, etc.?

I used to lose to my kids and later my grandkids all the time.

[jim601]

22. We tried to win the game

The best is when being interviewed at half time or at the end of the game by the sideline reporter, the answer to 'how was the team able to win' is always some variation of "We just went out there tried to win the game."

Baseball - "We tried to hit the ball, get some runs.."
Basketball - "We got open, made our shots.."
Football - "We made plays..."
Hockey - "We scored a goal..."

[Arcanetrance]

25. This could be a thread full of maddenisms and the title wouldn't change

[malthaussen]

28. Mickey Rivers is another gem.

He's got so many good quotes, they have their own web page.

Examples: "Pitching is 80% of the game, and the other half is hitting and fielding."
"My goals this year are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone."

-- Mal

[malthaussen]

29. The dumbest sports quote: "He went 2-for-4"

Or similar, when referring to hits or goals in a game. Grammatically, that's nonsense: it should be "2 in 4" or "4 for 2," not 2 for 4.

Other pet peeves: "Great players make great plays."
"He plays his position as well as anybody." Well, if he plays it as well as anybody, then it must follow that no one plays it better, ergo he must be the best.

-- Mal