Best quotes

[txscoop]

I love quotes.
Just curious to see what some of the better quotes an athlete/quote has given you for a story.
One of my personal favorites is from a Big 12 college basketball player after a loss to terrible team.

--"If you don't represent you become a victim of representation."

 

[Yodel]

"You're saying I suck, Brodie suck, the line suck, the receivers suck. That's what you're saying when you say that."

A certain former SEC running back before the Cotton Bowl one year, concerning his team's reputation as a defense-first team. The offense produced one TD in the game, but still won.

 

[txscoop]

"You're saying I suck, Brodie suck, the line suck, the receivers suck. That's what you're saying when you say that."

A certain former SEC running back before the Cotton Bowl one year, concerning his team's reputation as a defense-first team. The offense produced one TD in the game, but still won.

His knee was down on that one touchdown

 

[Steak Snabler]

"You're saying I suck, Brodie suck, the line suck, the receivers suck. That's what you're saying when you say that."

A certain former SEC running back before the Cotton Bowl one year, concerning his team's reputation as a defense-first team. The offense produced one TD in the game, but still won.

His knee was down on that one touchdown

It was Keith Brown's knee ...

 

[Yodel]

"You're saying I suck, Brodie suck, the line suck, the receivers suck. That's what you're saying when you say that."

A certain former SEC running back before the Cotton Bowl one year, concerning his team's reputation as a defense-first team. The offense produced one TD in the game, but still won.

His knee was down on that one touchdown

It was Keith Brown's knee ...

I thought about pointing that out, if only to accentuate that the offense indeed did suck, but I thought I'd let it pass.

Or, as one of his teammates might say, "It do, it do, it do, yeah, yeah, yeah, it do."

 

[mustangj17]

"You're saying I suck, Brodie suck, the line suck, the receivers suck. That's what you're saying when you say that."

A certain former SEC running back before the Cotton Bowl one year, concerning his team's reputation as a defense-first team. The offense produced one TD in the game, but still won.

His knee was down on that one touchdown

It was Keith Brown's knee ...

I thought about pointing that out, if only to accentuate that the offense indeed did suck, but I thought I'd let it pass.

Or, as one of his teammates might say, "It do, it do, it do, yeah, yeah, yeah, it do."

Followed closely by, "It is what it is man, you know, it is what it is, and that's all that there is."

 

[hankschu]

I love quotes.
Just curious to see what some of the better quotes an athlete/quote has given you for a story.
One of my personal favorites is from a Big 12 college basketball player after a loss to terrible team.

--"If you don't represent you become a victim of representation."

Question to pitcher Julian Tavarez 11 years ago when the Giants optioned him to Triple-A: "So, what do you hope to accomplish in Phoenix?"

Tavarez: "I want to eat and fart all day."

Ran it without commentary. None needed.

 

[Steak Snabler]

Then-Minnesota running back Laurence Maroney, when asked the following ice-breaker question before the 2004 Music City Bowl:

Reporter: "So, what do you think of Nashville so far?"

Maroney: "Man, this place sucks. I could never live here."

His present was a return trip to Nashville the following year. If only he had been drafted by the Titans ...

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

Dad a dandy in our paper last night.

Bradley player Daniel Ruffin: "Without my parents, I wouldn't be here."

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Joe Altobelli was managing the Giants, a poor road team, who started a long trip by being swept three games. Asked if playing seven more on the road concerned him, Altobelli replied, "What the ****, you gotta play 'em somewhere."

 

[JBHawkEye]

Former Iowa basketball player Reggie Evans, when asked about fans chanting his name after his big game at the Big Ten Tournament: "They were saying my two favorite words: Reg-Gie."

 

[jimmydangles]

"We can't win at home or on the road. My failure as a coach is that I can't think of anywhere else to play." Then-Whalers coach Harry Neale

 

[User 1019]

From a not-so-bright highschooler in Verbena, Ala., many moons ago: "I came around da corna and saw him. Hell, I nu a had heeyum. I juked him out his *** pantz."

 

[PeteyPirate]

Not to me, but to a former colleague who interviewed a football coach preparing his team to play against the deaf high school. He said this without a hint of irony, I'm told: "I've got to be honest, I don't know anything about this team. We're going into this game blind."

 

[Dedo]

A blind man ain't got no business at a circus.

 

[Jesus_Muscatel]

Tony Elliott, New Orleans Saints, after the Saints won their third straight to open the season, albeit unimpressively, in '88 (the year after the first playoff appearance).

"We haven't beat the point spread yet, but I'm happy as a punk in Boy's Town."

 

[Yodel]

Local low-major basketball team trails by 5 with 2 seconds left. Hits a 3, and forces a 5-second call. On the ensuing inbounds pass, local team gets off a good look at a 3-pointer, but it rims out.

Postgame, I ask the visitor's leading scorer what he thought when the 3-pointer left the shooter's hand.

"Oh, F---"

We didn't run it, but I think it summed up his sentiments perfectly.

 

[ltrain1127]

This from a sophomore high school basketball player last year:

"The reason we have been giving up points is because they have been scoring."

 

[jmacfl]

asked a HS wrestler how it felt to have the season he was - he was undefeated at the time on his way to finishing second at state.

"it's nice to look out there and know you can beat up everybody" or something to that effect.

 

[mustangj17]

Big Ten qb at a team camp giving a speech to high schoolers: "Excellence is good."