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Just wondering what everyone's favourite sports quote of all time is.

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But I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, his greatest fulfillment of all he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi

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Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. - Lou Gehrig

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Both one of my favorites from the Babe...

"Ty Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit."

"If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600."

... just funny the confidence this guy had..

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I like a lot of the quotes from Jimmy V.'s ESPY speech...

"I got one last thing and I said it before, and I'm gonna say it again: Cancer can take away all my physical ability. It cannot touch my mind; it cannot touch my heart; and it cannot touch my soul. And those three things are going to carry on forever."

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Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. - Lou Gehrig

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He was being sarcastic.

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"Playoffs?..."

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Suzy Kolber: Joe, it's been a tough season for Jets fans. What does it mean to you now that the team is struggling?

Joe Namath: I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling. What we know is we can improve. Chad Pennington, our quarterback, missed the first part of the season, and we struggled. We're looking to next season, we're looking to make a noise now and ... I wanna kiss you!

SK: Thanks Joe! I'll take that as a huge compliment ... [Namath in background: YEAH!!!!] Joe Namath, part of the four-decade team. We'll see these guys at halftime.

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"he said 50 percent of all major leaguers do steroids? well, i don't, so that's 49 percent." -rickey henderson

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We talking 'bout practice

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"Ty Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit."

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STUMP: Ty, you've got say something nice about Ruth in your book.

COBB: (reluctantly) Well, ok...he ran pretty good for a fat man.

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"If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600."

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Cobb used to say the same thing about Ruth. "I could knock the ball out of the park all the time, too, if I wanted to. But that's not baseball."

After years of this, some writer finally called BS. Cobb then said watch this, I'll start trying for HR's. He hit five in his next two games, a record that stood unmatched by anyone for 80 years, until the Steroid Era of today.

"See?" He felt like he had proven his point, and went back to slapping and legging it out, a la Ichiro.

EDIT: Oops, sorry for the hijack.

I was going to go with, "Playoffs???", but someone beat me to it.

Instead, I'll go with, "I don't believe what I just saw! I don't believe what I just saw!"

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Cobb then said watch this, I'll start trying for HR's. He hit five in his next two games, a record that stood unmatched by anyone for 80 years, until the Steroid Era of today.


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Huge exaggeration. A record that stood unmatched for 80 years until the Steroid Era???

The same feat was accomplished prior to Cobb by Cap Anson some 30+ years previous, and again just 11 years later by Lazzeri.

Not to mention, in the 80 years after that "this record supposedly stood"...it was accomplished about 25 times, twice each by Ralph Kiner and Nate Colbert.

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"Miami came in here saying they didn't play well the last time they were up here. I thought they played pretty damn well today but they got their ass kicked".

- Thurman Thomas

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"he said 50 percent of all major leaguers do steroids? well, i don't, so that's 49 percent." -rickey henderson

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"Well, Rickey's not one of them, so that's 49 percent right there."

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"Football is essentially a game of blocking and tackling. The team that blocks and tackles best usually wins." - Vince Lombardi

Hon. mention (best ever thanking of God):

"I'd like to thank my point man - Jesus!!" - John Wetteland

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mike keenan (to glenn healy): 'do you know what the difference between me and al arbour is glenn?'

glenn healy: 'four stanley cups?'

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I feel obligated to mention "Do you believe in miracles?" even though I wasn't alive for it.

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J Kidd?? (I forget exactly who): "I'm gonna turn this team around 360 degrees."

Yogi: "Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical."

"Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting."

"I'd say he's done more than that." -- When asked if first baseman Don Mattingly had exceeded expectations for the current season.

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"The added muscle and bulk from pushing that steel and the natural maturation process now enables this grandmaster to regularly accomplish the unimaginable without dragging around excessive bulk and baggage. Most top players get to the point where they truly believe that anything is possible. Most are also governed by gravity, the laws of physics and self-regulating mental control mechanisms. Kobe has left all these behind. The extra strength and stamina have made him a superior 3-point shooter, a most dominant defender and arguably the game's top rebounder." - Bill Walton on Kobe Bryant's offseason weight training


I've never told this story before, but I was driving my two daughters to school with my wife and I was just thinking, How much have I done for this city, for the Hurricane Katrina relief fund? I just didn't see it coming. I started to cry. I was asking my wife, 'When am I going to get the respect that I deserve?'

"While I was crying and saying that, my youngest was laughing. My eldest daughter, it crushed her, but my youngest started laughing. She said, 'Daddy is a crybaby, daddy is crybaby.' I started laughing, too, and it kind of brought me back to reality."

-Mike James after being traded from HOU

-- "I have no factual evidence to base this on...but I personally believe that drinking played a part." -- Stephen A. Smith, on Rudy T.'s retirement.

-- "I'm an information guy." -- Smith.

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"Playoffs?..."

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Anything Edge says is basically gold.

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Bill Walton on Robert Horry: "He's not just a genius of basketball. He's a genius of the human spirit."

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reporter: who would you take with first pick?
bobby knight: michael jordan
reporter: but isnt it better to get a center?
knight: then draft jordan and play him at center.

paraphrased from memory.

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Bill Walton on Robert Horry: "He's not just a genius of basketball. He's a genius of the human spirit."

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Walton on Horry: "Robert Horry is the greatest playoff performer in NBA history" .

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This is paraphrased. It was said by a decent running back in the early to mid-1990's.

I'm the kind of running back where if you need two yards, I'm going to get three yards. And if you need four yards, I'm going to get three yards.

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Including poker here is probably a stretch, but I've been a fan of this one.

Remember Elix Powers, the formerly homeless guy who made it to the final table of a limit hold'em event at the WSOP and got into an argument with McManus?

In his pre-taped interview segment, he boasted of his ability to throw opponents off of their games with smack-talk, culminating in this gem: "I am the ultimate . . . guy with words."

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"Never has a timid putter been known by the nickname lucky."

-Bernard Darwin

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Lee Elia-former Cubs manager-NSFW language

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Tim McCarver: former Cardinals catcher
I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter, that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit.

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This is paraphrased. It was said by a decent running back in the early to mid-1990's.

I'm the kind of running back where if you need two yards, I'm going to get three yards. And if you need four yards, I'm going to get three yards.

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Leroy Hoard....same thing's been said of a few RB's I'm sure.

"Football, there was a whole lot of it in the early years until Tagliabue in '86 and '87 started banning the stuff." - Lawrence Taylor

ScottieK

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"When your rich you don't write checks, straight cash homey"

Randy moss

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I think it was the Tampa Bay head coach John McKay, after his team, one of the worst NFL teams of all time, had just lost another game due to sloppy play:

Reporter: What do you think of your team's execution?

Disgusted McKay: I'm in favor of it.

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"When your rich you don't write checks, straight cash homey"

Randy moss

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That reminds me, from an NBA labor struggle:

"Sure, we make a lot of money. But we spend a lot of money, too."
--Patrick Ewing, wearing fake eyeglasses in an attempt to look smarter.

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"When your rich you don't write checks, straight cash homey"

Randy moss

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I don't really like Moss but that quote is great. I also loved how everyone was pissed off about it.

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Cobb then said watch this, I'll start trying for HR's. He hit five in his next two games, a record that stood unmatched by anyone for 80 years, until the Steroid Era of today.


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Huge exaggeration. A record that stood unmatched for 80 years until the Steroid Era???

The same feat was accomplished prior to Cobb by Cap Anson some 30+ years previous, and again just 11 years later by Lazzeri.

Not to mention, in the 80 years after that "this record supposedly stood"...it was accomplished about 25 times, twice each by Ralph Kiner and Nate Colbert.

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Stump's book "Cobb" said no one had done it since.

When someone I never heard of did it a few years ago, all the highlight shows echoed the sentiment that nobody had done it since Cobb.

I don't doubt your version of the facts. I'm just letting you know that I didn't make up what I wrote.

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"Football isn't a matter of life and death, it's far more important than that" - Former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly.

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Shankly has a ton of great quotes. The one you mentioned is sometimes quoted to talk about american football which is interesting.

Here's more
“The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.”

“This city has two great teams - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.”

“We murdered them 0-0.”

“Football is a matter of life and death, except more important”

If he had gunpowder for brains he couldn't blow his cap off.

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Classic.

Bankroll? Bankroll? I just hope I can win a hand.

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Bob Knight's poem:

"When my time, on Earth is gone,
and my activities here have passed,
I want they bury me upside down
so my critics can kiss my ass."

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(just after his career ending injury)

Just what America needs: one more unemployed black man.
-Charles Barkley