Favourite Sports Quote

[westside8]

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

[Dan R]

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

[wisehandpoker]

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

[trigstarr]

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..

[Terrabon98]

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."

[youtalkfunny]

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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!"

[RedBean]

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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.

[LionelHutz00]

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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.

[TheNoodleMan]

"Playoffs?..."

[TheNoodleMan]

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"Playoffs?..."

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