Athletes are smart n stuff
1. 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.”
2. 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.”
3. And, upon hearing Joe Jacobi of the ‘Skins say: “I’d run
over my own mother to win the Super Bowl,Matt Millen of he
Raiders said: “To win, I’d run over Joe’s Mom, too.”
4. Torri Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach,
John Jenkins: “He treats us like men. He lets us wear
earrings.”
5. Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann, 1996
: “Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is
a guy like Norman Einstein.”
6. Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh :
“I’m going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.”
(now that is beautiful)
7 Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach: “You guys
line up alphabetically by height.” And, “You guys pair up in
groups of three, and then line up in a circle.”
8. 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 .”
9. 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.”
10 . Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan
training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota: “He’s a guy who
gets up at six o’clock in the morning regardless of what time
it is.”
11. 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.”
(I wonder if his IQ ever hit room temperature in January)
12. 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.’”
13. Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M, recounting
w hat 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.”
and finally…
14. Amarillo High School and Oiler coach Bum Phillips when
asked by Bob Costas why he takes his wife on all the road
trips, Phillips responded:
“Because she is too damn ugly to kiss good-bye.”
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