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Posted by: TJ Cline

Post you favorite sports quotes here


Posted by: TJ Cline

Randall "Tex" Cobb: "If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass."


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Muhammed Ali, after failing an Army intelligence test, "I said I was the greatest, not the smartest."


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Tony Galento, when asked about Shakespeare: "I ain't never heard of him. I suppose he's one of them foreign heavyweights. They're all lousy. Sure as hell I'll moider de bum."


Posted by: TJ Cline

Willie Pastrano, when asked by the ring doctor if he knew where he was: "You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the shit knocked out of me."


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Jack Dempsey. A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.


Posted by: ReproMan

"One of the things that bothers me most, ... Is that very few people really understand what it means to be a fighter. I hate it when I hear someone say, 'That fighter doesn't have guts.' I hate that; it really ticks me off. I don't care if you're a world champion six times over or a four-round fighter who just got knocked out in thirty seconds of your first professional fight. To step inside that ring, you have to have guts.” Oscar De La Hoya


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George Foreman

"There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance."


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Sugar Ray Robinson (1921-1989)

"Hurting people is my business."


Posted by: Goodfella9783

"Durability is part of what makes a great athlete"

-Bill Russell-


Posted by: Doublebase

Quote:
Originally Posted by FatCatMC
"One of the things that bothers me most, ... Is that very few people really understand what it means to be a fighter. I hate it when I hear someone say, 'That fighter doesn't have guts.' I hate that; it really ticks me off. I don't care if you're a world champion six times over or a four-round fighter who just got knocked out in thirty seconds of your first professional fight. To step inside that ring, you have to have guts.” Oscar De La Hoya
Nice avatar. What did you think about those 9 plays on Sunday?


Posted by: shiznit2169

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.” - Michael Jordan

"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision." - Muhammad Ali

"If you can accept losing, you have no heart" - unknown


Posted by: Richie1888

"get up ya son of a bitch! One more ROUND" Mickey the coach from Rocky

damn good quote i thought


Posted by: TJ Cline

Mike Tyson on On Lennox Lewis
"Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!"


"My main objective is to be professional but to kill him."


"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him [Lennox Lewis]. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."


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Tyson on On Razor Ruddock

"You're sweet. I'm going to make sure you kiss me good with those big lips. I'm gonna make you my girlfriend."


Posted by: Goodfella9783

What a piece of work Tyson is


Posted by: Bakerboy

Joe Gans- (Lightweight champion of the world 1902- 1908)

"Some fighter's waste a lot of energy. Wait for your opportunity and when it comes, avail yourself of it. The idea of boring in and throwing punches helter skelter without reason doesn't amount to a row of pins. Every time you miss a swing it's worse than being hit. I could be champion until I was as old as Methuselah if all I ever fought were opponents who just rushed at me throwing wild blows. All would have to do is let them waste their energy and when they were weakened just land one blow, a straight one to be ure, and it would be over in a jiffy."


Posted by: goob

Couple of classics from Celtic FC's manager Gordon Strachan, the typical deadpan Scot, and others:

Reporter: Bang, there goes your unbeaten run. Can you take it?
Strachan: No, I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe jump of a bridge. Umm, I think I can take it, yeah.

Reporter: There's no negative vibes or negative feelings here?
Strachan: Apart from yourself, we're all quite positive round here. I'm going to whack you over the head with a big stick, down negative man, down.

"I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out."
Rodney Dangerfield.

I'd run over my mother to win the Super Bowl.
-- Russ Grimm

Randy Cross: Quotes: Football
The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

"I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest just squandered"
George Best. (ex Man Utd.)

"If we played like that every week we wouldn't be so inconsistent"
Bryan Robson, Man U, 1990.

"That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on."
John Lambie, Partick Thistle manager, when told a concussed striker did not know who he was.

"If you can't stand the heat in the dressing-room, get out of the kitchen."
TERRY VENABLES, Capital Gold


Posted by: fufu

Quote:
Originally Posted by ForemanRules
Mike Tyson on On Lennox Lewis
"Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!"


"My main objective is to be professional but to kill him."


"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him [Lennox Lewis]. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."
!!!


Posted by: min0 lee

"Those were great"
Min0 Lee


Posted by: Pedigree

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed."
-Michael Jordan


Posted by: Pedigree

"Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps."
-Tiger Woods


Posted by: Pedigree

"I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy."
-Jack Nicklaus


Posted by: Pedigree

"Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy and a little more patient."
-Bo Jackson


Posted by: musclepump

Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead.
~ Roger Bannister (After becoming the first person to break the four-minute mile, 1952)


Posted by: musclepump

When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It's like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.
~ Michael Jordan


Posted by: musclepump

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.
~ Carl Lewis


Posted by: musclepump

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
~ Shaquille O'Neal


Posted by: musclepump

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.
~ Martina Navratilova, American Tennis Player


Posted by: musclepump

Champions keep playing until they get it right.
~ Billie Jean King


Posted by: musclepump

I'll let the racket do the talking.
~ John McEnroe


Posted by: musclepump

I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.
~ John Daly, American Golfer


Posted by: musclepump

For me, winning isn't something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.
~ Emmitt Smith, American Football Player


Posted by: musclepump

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
~ Muhammad Ali, American Boxer


Posted by: musclepump

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
~ Hank Aaron, American Baseball Player


Posted by: musclepump

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.
~ Steffi Graf, German Tennis Player


Posted by: musclepump

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
~ Chris Evert Lloyd


Posted by: musclepump

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.
~ Pele


Posted by: musclepump

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
~ Jesse Owens


Posted by: musclepump

Football is like life -- it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
~ Vince Lombardi, American Football Coach


Posted by: musclepump

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
~ Chief Justice Earl Warren


Posted by: musclepump

Golf is a good walk spoiled.
~ Mark Twain


Posted by: musclepump

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
~ Winston Churchill


Posted by: musclepump

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
~ Bob Hope


Posted by: musclepump

Although Golf was originally restricted to wealthy Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
~ Dave Barry


Posted by: musclepump

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
~ Mark Twain


Posted by: musclepump

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
~ Henry David Thoreau


Posted by: musclepump

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
~ Vince Lombardi, American Football Coach


Posted by: musclepump

Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
~ George Will


Posted by: musclepump

If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.
~ Jan McKeithen


Posted by: musclepump

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
~ George Bernard Shaw


Posted by: musclepump

When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to the conclusion that the successful players had the Three Cs: Confidence, Composure, Concentration.
~ Bob Toski, American Golfer


Posted by: musclepump

So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.
~ Epictetus, Greek Stoic Philosopher


Posted by: musclepump

The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth, the springtime of mankind, a festival of supreme efforts, multiple ambitions and all forms of youthful activity celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.
~ Pierre de Coubertin


Posted by: musclepump

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
~ Will Rogers


Posted by: musclepump

Show me a guy whos afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
-Lou Brock


Posted by: musclepump

Dont look back. Something might be gaining on you.
-Satchel Paige


Posted by: musclepump

If at first you dont succeed, you are running about average.
-M.H. Alderson


Posted by: musclepump

When someone tells me the is only one way to do things, it always lights a fire under my butt. My instant reaction is, I'm gonna prove you wrong.
-Picabo Street


Posted by: musclepump

The only way to overcome is to hang in. Even I'm starting to believe that.
-Dan OBrien


Posted by: musclepump

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club wont be worth a dime.
-Babe ruth


Posted by: musclepump

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, thats the day you start to the top.
-O.J. Simpson


Posted by: musclepump

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.
-Pat Riley


Posted by: musclepump

Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records.
-William A. Ward


Posted by: musclepump

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
-Charlie Finley


Posted by: musclepump

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
-A J Kitt


Posted by: musclepump

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
-Archie Griffen, two-time Heisman winner ( 5ft 9)


Posted by: musclepump

There's no substitute for guts.
-Paul Bear Bryant


Posted by: musclepump

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
-Lou Holtz


Posted by: musclepump

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging
-Hank Aaron


Posted by: musclepump

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
-Joe Paterno


Posted by: musclepump

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
-Joe Paterno


Posted by: musclepump

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
-Muhammad Ali


Posted by: musclepump

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that
whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
-Vince Lombardi


Posted by: musclepump

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
-Michael Jordan


Posted by: musclepump

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden


Posted by: musclepump

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.
-Herschel Walker


Posted by: musclepump

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
-Greg LeMond


Posted by: musclepump

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired you quit when the gorilla is tired.
-Robert Strauss


Posted by: musclepump

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
-John Wooden


Posted by: musclepump

I'll always be Number 1 to myself.
-Moses Malone



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