LadyFish
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1. Chicago Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson on being a<br />role model: "I wan' all dem kids to do what I do, to look up to me.<br />I wan' all the kids to copulate me."<br /><br />2. New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked<br />about the upcoming season: "I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500<br />yards, whichever comes first."<br /><br />3. And, upon hearing Joe Jacobi of the 'Skins say:<br />"I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl, "Matt Millen of<br />the Raiders said: "To win,I'd run over Joe's Mom, too."<br /><br />4. Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on<br />his coach, John Jenkins: "He treats us like men. He lets us wear<br />earrings."<br /><br />5. Football commentator and former player Joe<br />Theismann, 1996: "Nobody in football should be called a<br />genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."<br /><br />6. Senior basketball player at the University of<br />Pittsburgh: "I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it<br />takes."<br /><br />7. Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach:<br />"You guys line up alphabetically by height." And, "You guys pair up<br />in groups of three, and then line up in a circle."<br /><br />8. Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson going to<br />prison: "Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went<br />to prison for three years, not Princeton."<br /><br />9. Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing,<br />explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker:<br />"That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my<br />clothes."<br />10. Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan<br />training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota: "He's a guy who<br />gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time<br />it is."<br /><br />11. Chuck Nevitt, North Carolina State basketball<br />player, explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared<br />nervous at practice: "My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't<br />know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt." (I wonder if his<br />IQ ever hit room temperature in January)<br /><br />12. Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former<br />player: "I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance<br />or apathy?' He said, 'Coach,I don't know and I don't care.'"<br /><br />13. Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M,<br />recounting what he told a player who received four F's and one<br />D: "Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one<br />subject."<br /><br />14. Amarillo High School and Oiler coach Bum Phillips<br />when asked by Bob Costas why he takes his wife on all the road<br />trips, Phillips responded: "Because she is too darn ugly to<br />kiss good- bye." 