OT: Memorable sports quotes...trivia

[MilfordHusky]

Just SO entertaining: The band is on the field!

California scores a late TD to take a 19-17 lead over favored Stanford.
John Elway [That John Elway] takes Stanford down the field to hit a short
field goal...Stanford 20-18...maybe 4 seconds left in the game.

Stanford kicker hits a squib kick...California player gets it....and laterals
galore happen. Runner evades tackles and around the 15 yard line the band
[both bands?] are on the field. He dodges everybody and scores a TD...
California 25-20. Does it count? Flags all over. It counts! 25-20 Cal.

Announcer justifiably goes quite crazy. One heart breaks...one is joyful.

The following year, the Stanford Band tryouts included tackling drills.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Practice? We talkin’ about practice!

 

[MilfordHusky]

Be the right club today! [Get the last one and you are a Maya-like trivia whiz]

 

[MilfordHusky]

They are who we thought they were!

 

[rvwsleep]

"The ship be sinking"

 

[rvwsleep]

1. "Never let them catch you walking on a ball field!"

2. "I work Damn hard to make it look easy!" (not a sports quote but still great)

3. "I don't want them to get the wrong impression of ---------!"

4. "I want to thank God for making me a Yankee!"

5. "If I knew I would live this long I would have taken better care of myself!"

6. "I'm a better person, Wife, Mother, and at my job because I met and was coached by you!"

7. "I'm the straw that stirs the drink! Munson can only stir it bad!"

8. "I always wanted to join the circus when I was a kid and now I've realized my dream!"

9. "Nobody goes there any more it's too busy!"

10. "You can look it up!"

11."He went from Cy Young to Sayonara!"

12. "That's the first and only time I've seen Geno Auriemma cry!"

4. Joe D
5. The Mick
7. Reggie
8. Nettles
9. Yogi
11. Nettles

 

[David54]

1. "Never let them catch you walking on a ball field!"

2. "I work Damn hard to make it look easy!" (not a sports quote but still great)

3. "I don't want them to get the wrong impression of ---------!"

4. "I want to thank God for making me a Yankee!"

5. "If I knew I would live this long I would have taken better care of myself!"

6. "I'm a better person, Wife, Mother, and at my job because I met and was coached by you!"

7. "I'm the straw that stirs the drink! Munson can only stir it bad!"

8. "I always wanted to join the circus when I was a kid and now I've realized my dream!"

9. "Nobody goes there any more it's too busy!"

10. "You can look it up!"

11."He went from Cy Young to Sayonara!"

12. "That's the first and only time I've seen Geno Auriemma cry!"

I think 4 is Joe d. I know 5 is mantle 7 is Reggie 8 I think is nettles. 9 yogi. 11 I think sparky Lyle , it was certainly referencing him.
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[RSHERMVIKES]

I think 4 is Joe d. I know 5 is mantle 7 is Reggie 8 I think is nettles. 9 yogi. 11 I think sparky Lyle , it was certainly referencing him.
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David54- - - - Nice job!
You had 8 and 11 switched!
8 was Lyle and 11 was Nettles!

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

4. Joe D
5. The Mick
7. Reggie
8. Nettles
9. Yogi
11. Nettles

rvwsleep- - -good job!
8 was Lyle!

 

[Cuango]

King of Sweden, as he presents the gold medal: “You sir, are the greatest athlete in the world.”
Athlete’s reply: “Thanks King”

Athlete?

 

[Bald Husky]

• I didn't want to put you in but there was nobody else. Geno Auriemma
• You got one more rebound than a dead person.

 

[geordi]

King of Sweden, as he presents the gold medal: “You sir, are the greatest athlete in the world.”
Athlete’s reply: “Thanks King”

Athlete?

Jim Thorpe

"The rough couldn't have been THAT bad. I could still see your knees."

 

[Veteran]

Too bad the rules for this game don't include coaches because if it did the ultimate quote would be:

"We have Diana, and you don't."

Most of us know the circumstances, the author of the quote and who it references from back in 2004.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

“THE YANKEES WIN THE PENNANT!!!! THE YANKEES WIN THE PENNANT!!!!”

I’ll never forget hearing those words.

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

The answers to my quotes at #32 above:
1. Don Mattingly to Derek Jeter Spring Training Tampa, 1995
2. Fred Astaire when asked how he makes dancing look so effortlessly!
3. Joe DiMaggio
4. Joe DiMaggio
5. Mickey Mantle
6. Rebecca Lobo HofF speech to Geno Auriemma
7. Reggie Jackson
8. Sparky Lyle
9. Yogi Berra
10. Casey Stengel
11. Graig Nettles
12. Rebecca Lobo to reporters at FF 2009 after reading Jeff Jacobs Hartford Courant column about Renee Montgomery & Geno

 

[Sifaka]

"Never save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain."









- Leo Durocher

 

[CONN78SEJ]

The answers to my quotes at #32 above:
1. Don Mattingly to Derek Jeter Spring Training Tampa, 1995
2. Fred Astaire when asked how he makes dancing look so effortlessly!
3. Joe DiMaggio
4. Joe DiMaggio
5. Mickey Mantle
6. Rebecca Lobo HofF speech to Geno Auriemma
7. Reggie Jackson
8. Sparky Lyle
9. Yogi Berra
10. Casey Stengel
11. Graig Nettles
12. Rebecca Lobo to reporters at FF 2009 after reading Jeff Jacobs Hartford Courant column about Renee Montgomery & Geno

What’s the answer to the one I posted above you? I mean who screamed it on the air?

 

[RockyMTblue2]

He's moving like a TREMENDOUS MACHINE!

He wants the lead and he's going for it right now!

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Dan Hurley: "You better get us now." A very hot quote during the NCAA Tourney.

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

What’s the answer to the one I posted above you? I mean who screamed it on the air?

CONN78SEJ- - My first guess would be Gary Thorne, after Aaron Boone hit the HR off the late Tim Wakefield, to go to the 2003 WS!

OR Bill White at Boston 1978 extra game when Bucky "F--g" Dent hit that HR!

 

[CONN78SEJ]

CONN78SEJ- - My first guess would be Gary Thorne, after Aaron Boone hit the HR off the late Tim Wakefield, to go to the 2003 WS!

OR Bill White at Boston 1978 extra game when Bucky "F--g" Dent hit that HR!

Good guesses but it was the Scooter Phil Rizzuto when Chris Chambliss hit his walk off HR against the Royals in game 5 of the 1976 playoff, winning the first Yankee pennant since 1964. Still remember him screaming it………”THE YANKEES WIN THE PENNANT….THE YANKEES WIN THE PENNANT….THE YANKEES WIN THE PENNANT”

 

[LesMis89]

"The only thing you know about pitching is how hard it is to hit."

‘Don’t dig in against Bob Gibson, he’ll knock you down. He’d knock down his own grandmother if she dared to challenge him. Don’t stare at him, don’t smile at him, don’t talk to him. He doesn’t like it. If you happen to hit a home run, don’t run too slow, don’t run too fast. If you happen to want to celebrate, get in the tunnel first. And if he hits you, don’t charge the mound, because he’s a Gold Glove boxer.’ I’m like, ‘Damn, what about my 17-game hitting streak?’ That was the night it ended.”
- who gave the advice?
- to whom was he speaking?

 

[Jackcatscal]

On end zone dancing: "Act like you've done it before and act like you plan on doing it again" - John Riggins, who was "asked" to leave the White House because he was, well, inebriated... (that alone cements the Diesel in my hall of fame book.)

“Come on, loosen up, Sandy baby, you’re too tight.” John Riggins to US Supreme Court Justice Sandra day O'Connor at a Washington Press Club dinner. Riggins had been a bit overserved.

 

[Jackcatscal]

"If you know how to cheat, start now." Earl Weaver