SPORTS QUOTES….
-1992 Pat Williams, Orlando Magic general manager,
on his team’s 7-27 record: “We can’t win at home.
We can’t win on the road. As general manager, I
just can’t figure out where else to play.”
-1987 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.”
-1982 Chuck Nevitt , North Carolina State basketball
player, explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he
appeared nervous at practice: “My sister’s expecting
a baby, and I don’t know if I’m going to be an uncle
or an aunt.”
-1996 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.”
-1981 Tommy Lasorda , Dodger manager, asked what
terms Mexican-born pitching sensation Fernando
Valenzuela might settle for in his upcoming contract
negotiations: “He wants Texas back.”
-1966 Darrell Royal, Texas football coach, asked if
the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries this season
resulted from poor physical conditioning: “One player
was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go
about getting a nose in condition for football?”
-1981 Mike McCormack , coach of the hapless Baltimore
Colts after the team’s co-captain, offensive guard
Robert Pratt, pulled a hamstring running onto the
field for the coin toss against St. Louis: “I’m going
to send the injured reserve players ou t for the toss
next time.”
-1991 Steve Spurrier, Florida football coach, telling
Gator fans that a fire at Auburn’s football dorm had
destroyed 20 books: “But the real tragedy was that
15 hadn’t been colored yet.”
-1986 Jim Finks, New Orleans Saints G.M., when asked
after a loss what he thought of the refs: “I’m not
allowed to comment on lousy officiating.”
-1991 Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, on racing
Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons:
“It’s basically the same, just darker.”
-1996 Lincoln Kennedy, Oakland Raiders tackle, on
his decision not to vote: “I was going to write
myself in, but I was afraid I’d get shot.”
-1991 Jim Colletto, Purdue football coach and former
assistant at Arizona State and Ohio State, on his
11-year-old son’s reaction after he took the job
with the Boilermakers: “He said: ‘Gosh, Dad, that
mean’s we’re not going to any more bowl games .’”
-1986 LaVell Edwards, BYU football coach and one of
14 children: “They can’t fire me because my family
buys too many tickets.”
-1991 Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former
player: “I told him, ‘Son, what is it with you. Is
it ignorance or apathy?’ He said, ‘Coach, I don’t
know and I don’t care.”
-1997 Brent Motycka, “What’s So Funny?” joke mailing
list founder, when asked by subscribers how he
pronounces his name: “Brent.”
-1991 Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver,
on his coach, John Jenkins: “He treats us like men.
He lets us wear earrings.”
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