OT: Memorable sports quotes...trivia

[Blakeon18]

LesMis89: The first line was Gibson to his own catcher Tim McCarvere...I think.

The rest? Maybe McCarver to somebody after he was traded from the Cardinals?

 

[LesMis89]

LesMis89: The first line was Gibson to his own catcher Tim McCarvere...I think.

The rest? Maybe McCarver to somebody after he was traded from the Cardinals?

Yes on #1

#2 was Hank Aaron to a young Dusty Baker

 

[AidanFan20]

"Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson."

Willie Mays

 

[AidanFan20]

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."

Rogers Hornsby

 

[Ouremblem]

Okay, this is from my baseball Hero. Kudos to the person who gets it.

"No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat."

Ted Williams, right?

 

[Ouremblem]

“Slump? I ain’t in no slump…I just ain’t hitting.”

 

[CL82]

Ted Williams, right?

Weird because I remember Williams being able to say whether he hit the ball on the stitches or on the leather which seems like he's following it all the way in.

Ted Williams used to boast about being able to see the stitches on a baseball moving at 80 mph, figure out which way the ball was spinning and then watch his bat hit the ball and tell how many stitches the bat made contact with.

 

[cullaville]

Vin Scully 1986 World Series game six. He said what happened and stopped talking.

 

[boontonbomber]

Absolutely the best back and forth between player, and sportswriter who doesn't have a clue. I'm forever amazed at the pathetic questions posed by sports writers. And equally amazed at how patient the athletes are with these writers and their questions.

 

[Monte]

"The Giants is dead!" This was said by Charlie Dressen, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, in 1951. He said this in the middle of August when the Dodgers had an 11 game lead over the rival Giants. When the season ended, the Giants and Dodgers ended up in a tie for first place.
The Giants won the playoff on Bobby Thomson's home run.

 

[Blond D.]

I'm a machine, Fool! (Ray Lewis)

 

[RockyMTblue2]

"He's playing tennis." Donovan Clingan's shot blocking in Illinois game.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

"They run a lot of sets, nothing that we haven't seen throughout the course of Big Ten play and postseason." Brad Underwood
before the Elite 8 Game with UConn. Believe me this will live on for a long time!

 

[Superhuskies]

"We've got 60-70 points on the bench, in street clothes. (No one expected us to get this far.)"
Paige Bueckers, post-game, Portland, Or., after beating Southern Cal, to reach 2024 Final Four

 

[OldSchooler]

Who said this, and about whom?

"I could have walked over there and given the guy a ten dollar bill, because such foolishness has to come to an end sooner or later."

Hint: It involves probably the most unbreakable record in baseball history.

 

[OldSchooler]

What major league record is held by Bill Wambsganss?

(And it has nothing to do with the unassisted triple play he pulled off in the 1920 World Series.)

 

[Cuango]

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

 

[OldSchooler]

Jim Thorpe, at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.

 

[OldSchooler]

Jim Thorpe, at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm.

He said it to King Gustaf V after winning the Pentathlon (an event no longer held in the Olympics -- not to be confused with the Modern Pentathlon). A few days later, he also won the gold medal in the Decathlon, with a record score that lasted for 40 years.

 

[OldSchooler]

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

I’ll never forget hearing those words.

That's after a walk-off home run in the ALCS, either by Chris Chambliss in 1976 or Aaron Boone in 2003.

 

[OldSchooler]

Here's one for all us old-timers. Who said --

"Most people my age are dead"

 

[RSHERMVIKES]

Here's one for all us old-timers. Who said --

"Most people my age are dead"

OldSchooler- - -Casey Stengel

 

[CONN78SEJ]

That's after a walk-off home run in the ALCS, either by Chris Chambliss in 1976 or Aaron Boone in 2003.

1976 was much bigger since it was 12 years since the last pennant …..Rizzuto screaming it……”The Yankees win the pennant……the Yankees win the pennant…..The Yankees win the pennant”…….really resonated when the Chambliss’s shot cleared the fence. Sure Boone’s shot in 2003 was big but the Yankees had already made the past 8 or so post seasons, and the announcers were not former Yankees IIRC.

“Holy Cow”

 

[OldSchooler]

1976 was much bigger since it was 12 years since the last pennant …..Rizzuto screaming it……”The Yankees win the pennant……the Yankees win the pennant…..The Yankees win the pennant”…….really resonated when the Chambliss’s shot cleared the fence. Sure Boone’s shot in 2003 was big but the Yankees had already made the past 8 or so post seasons, and the announcers were not former Yankees IIRC.

“Holy Cow”

I must admit, I never heard the call, because I was at the game. Chambliss hit the first pitch in the 9th off a tired reliever, Mark Littell -- his 11th hit of the 7-game series, in which he batted .524. Fans were all over the field as Chambliss rounded 2nd base, and by the time he fought his way around third, home plate was gone. They had to bring him out onto the field a half hour later to touch the hole where the plate had been ripped out of the ground. Sportswriters compared it to Bobby Thomson's shot-heard-'round-the-world 25 years earlier, but it really didn't compare. Chambliss' HR was a lead-off tie-breaker. Thomson's came with two on, down by two, and capped a 4-run 9th inning.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

I must admit, I never heard the call, because I was at the game. Chambliss hit the first pitch in the 9th off a tired reliever, Mark Littell -- his 11th hit of the 7-game series, in which he batted .524. Fans were all over the field as Chambliss rounded 2nd base, and by the time he fought his way around third, home plate was gone. They had to bring him out onto the field a half hour later to touch the hole where the plate had been ripped out of the ground. Sportswriters compared it to Bobby Thomson's shot-heard-'round-the-world 25 years earlier, but it really didn't compare. Chambliss' HR was a lead-off tie-breaker. Thomson's came with two on, down by two, and capped a 4-run 9th inning.

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