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These are some of the best sport quotes and bloopers mistatements:
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“Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.”
-Pedro Guerrero, on sportswriters
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“Sure. I’m proud to be an American.”
-Cincinnati Reds rookie pitcher Steve Foster, asked by a Canadian customs agent if he had anything to declare.
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“The Yankees are only interested in one thing, and I don’t know what that is.”
-Former Yankee outfielder Louos Polonia
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“It’s a partial sellout.”
-Atlanta Braves broadcaster Skip Caray, trying not to say the game has only drawn 6,000 fans.
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“Why does everybody stand up and sing ‘Take Me Out to the Ballgame’ when they’re already there?”
-Larry Anderson, MLB pitcher
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“Models are like baseball players. We make a lot of money quickly, but all of a sudden we’re 30 years old, we don’t have a college education, we’re qualified for nothing, and we’re used to a very nice lifestyle. The best thing is to marry a movie star”
-Cindy Crawford to the BBC
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“I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.”
-Johnny Bench
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I don’t care what the tape says. I didn’t say it.”
-Football coach Ray Malavasi
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Most of my clichés aren’t original.”
-Chuck Knox, when he coached the Rams.
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“Left hand, right hand, it doesn’t matter. I’m amphibious.”
-Charles Shackleford of the NCSU basketball team
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“Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points, they almost always win.”
-Doug Collins
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“I’ve won at every level, except college and pro.”
-Shaquille O’Neal, on his lack of championships.
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“Are you any relation to your brother Marv?”
-Basketball player Leon Wood to announcer Steve Albert
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“I’m going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.”
-Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh
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“I don’t want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win.”
-Sherman Douglas
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Better teams win more often than the teams that are not so good.”
-Tom Watt, ex-Maple Leaves coach (his team was not so good)
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“I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn’t spell it.”
-Boxing great Rocky Graziano
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“He’s a guy who gets up at six o’clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.”
-Lou Duva, Veteran boxing trainer, on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota, 1996.
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“He’s the man of the hour at this particular moment.”
-Don King
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“You can sum up this sport in two words: You never know.”
-Lou Duva, boxing trainer
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“I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father”
-Greg Norman
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“His nerves. His memory. And I can’t remember the third thing.”
-Lee Trevino on the three things that go as a golfer ages.
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“I don’t think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.”
-Johnny Miller, TV analyst and pro golfer.
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“Then I was skinnier. I hit it better, I putted better, and I could see better. Other than that, everything is the same.”
-PGA Senior Tour player Homero Blancas.
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“My handicap is that I don’t have a big enough beer cooler for the back of my golf cart.”
-Pro football linebacker Rick D’Amico, on his golf handicap.
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“(We) should be allowed to wear shorts. God almighty, (LPGA) women are allowed to wear ’em, and we’ve got better legs than they do.”
-Greg Norman
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Page Topic: Stupid Sports Quotes, Bloopers and Mistatements
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I heard an umpire telling tese words to our school team when somebody from the public entererd to the field: Go out. This game is only for nine players, including me!.
Just a comment about the Tom Watt quote, it should say “Maple Leafs”. I don’t know why, and the grammar bothers me, but I’m a hockey nut and a perfectionist. (Sorry)