Quote:Sports Quotes

[Diva]

"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."

- Jason Kidd



"Are you any relation to your brother Marv?"

- Basketball player Leon Wood to announcer Steve Albert



"It's almost like we have ESPN."

- Magic Johnson, on how well he and James Worthy work together.



"I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to."

- Shaquille O'Neal on whether he had visited the Parthenon during
his visit to Greece.


"My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an
uncle or an aunt."

- Chuck Nevitt , North Carolina State basketball player, explaining
to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice, 1982.



"Tom."

- Tom Nissalke, New coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets, when asked
how he pronounced his name, 1966.



"I'll always be Number 1 to myself."

- Moses Malone



"I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes."

- Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh



I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the
kids to copulate me.

- Chicago Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson on being a role model

[Amaurote]

If that's Andre Dawson's notion of being a role model, all role models should be locked up in maximum security prisons :)

Colemanballs (http://www.colemanballs.f2s.com/) is a database full of sports-related gaffes, and its been kicking around for a few years now. My favourite sporting Colemanball would be Jimmy McGee, the Scottish athletics commentator, for his classic observation on the final 300 metres in a long distance race:


"Watch her spread her legs and show her class."

However, Colemanballs also traditionally incorporates non-sporting gaffes, of which the best is surely this refreshingly honest one, from the newly elected President Figueiredo of Brazil, in 1979:

"I intend to open this country up to democracy, and anyone who is against that I will jail, I will crush."

Of course, those were pre-Spin Doctor days...