Favourite Sports Quote

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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.

[MacGuyV]

"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

[Huskiez]

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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."

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

"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

[talentdeficit]

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

glenn healy: 'four stanley cups?'

[Patrick Duffy]

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

[Rubeskies]

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.

[gettym]

"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.

[TheNoodleMan]

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"Playoffs?..."

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