Now that the NFL lockout is over

[vifferman]

ATHLETIC QUOTES

 

 

Chicago Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson on being a role model:

"I wan' all dem kids to do what I do, to look

up to me. I wan' all the kids to copulate me."

 

 

New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked about the

upcoming season:

"I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards,

whichever comes first."

 

 

And, upon hearing Joe Jacobi of the 'Skin's say: "I'd run over

my own mother to win the Super Bowl," Matt Millen of the

Raiders said:

"To win, I'd run over Joe's Mom, too."

 

 

Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins:

"He treat us like men. He lets us wear earrings."

 

 

Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann:

"Nobody in football should be called a genius.

A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

 

 

Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh:

"I'm going to graduate on time, no matter

how long it takes."

 

 

Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach:

"You guys line up alphabetically by height."

And another time:

"You guys pair up in groups of three, and

then line up in a circle."

 

 

Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson going to prison:

"Why would anyone expect him to come out

smarter? He went to prison for three years,

not Princeton..."

 

 

Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why

he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker:

"That's so when I forget how to spell my

name, I can still find my clothes."

 

 

Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the spartan training

regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota:

"He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in

the morning, regardless of what time it is."

 

 

Chuck Nevitt, North Carolina State basketball player,

explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous

at a practice:

"My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't

know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt."

 

 

Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player:

"I asked him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it

ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I

don't know and I don't care.'"

 

 

Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M, recounting

what he told a player who received four F's and one D:

"Son, looks to me like you're spending too

much time on one subject."

 

 

In the words of NC State great Charles Shackelford:

"I can go to my left or right, I am amphibious."

 

 

Former Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips when asked by Bob

Costas why he takes his wife on all the road trips, Phillips responded:

"Because she's too damn ugly to kiss good-bye."

[black sunshine]

 

I read the "ignorance or apathy" one years ago, and it still cracks me up. Lots of good ones I haven't heard, too!

[Camatvcutie]

good stuff. I LOVE FOOTBALL GO COLTS