OT: Memorable sports quotes...trivia

[Blakeon18]

Stolen from the men's board...they limit it to basketball quotes...use any sport if you wish:

Here are a few of the memorable sayings...by announcers or players. Can you
identify the circumstances surrounding it? Who said it? What is it referring to...etc? No research!

Got some of our own to puzzle us...great!

Start with an easy one:

Do you believe in miracles?

The band is on the field!

Down goes Frazier!

Better than most....better than most!

The Giants win the pennant!

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

 

[Rixxx]

Havlicek steals the ball!

 

[AidanFan20]

He's moving like a TREMENDOUS MACHINE!

 

[Rixxx]

He's moving like a TREMENDOUS MACHINE!

Two things in my lifetime that impressed me: 1957 Sputnik flying overhead changed the world forever. 1973 Secretariat winning the Belmont by +30 lengths was generational and blew my mind.

 

[Monte]

"Good pitching beats good hitting, and vice-versa."

Yoga Berra

 

[ERWUC65]

"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing" Vince Lombardi (and Geno Auriemma?)

 

[RoadMaster]

"Ali, Bomaye.. Ali Bomaye.."

 

[OldSchooler]

"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." (Red Auerbach)

"He [Del Shofner] faked [Jess] Whittenton out of his jock . . . -s and his SHOES." (Chris Schenkel, in a live Giants-Packers telecast, before the invention of the 5-second delay)

"My philosophy is to advance the ball." (Jim Brown)

"Luck is the residue of design." (Branch Rickey)

"How about that" (Mel Allen)

"The grand-daddy of all the bowl games" (also Mel Allen, about the Rose Bowl)

 

[azfan]

They are who we thought they were!

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.


The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

Football doesn't build character, it reveals character!

Statistics are like bikinis—they show a lot but not everything.

And

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take.

 

[Dogdude]

Ya gotta be an old cyclist for this one, but when asked about his tactics for the upcoming Tour De France back in the 70's, Eddie Merckx simply said, "Tactics are for the weak."

 

[uconnfan68]

Send it in Jerome.

 

[MooseJaw]

"Holy Cow"

 

[Bald Husky]

A bloop and a blast.

 

[Zarathustra]

"Holy Cow"

Said "THE SCOOTER to the OLD REDHEAD"!

 

[Scud49]

"Just a bit outside"

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[itsasport]

"Win one for the Gipper"

"But there was no joy in Mudville, the mighty Casey had struck out"

"I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques. I've got a technique. It's called just go get the damn ball."
Charles Barkley

 

[Viet Vet]

"Act like you've been there before".

Today's poseurs, take note.

 

[Hoops66]

There's no crying in baseball!

It's going, it's going, it's gone!

Do your job.

 

[Huskee11]

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

Hal Sutton winning the 1983 PGA Championship

The pronunciation was to-DAY

 

[Blakeon18]

Huskee11: Bingo on getting Hal Sutton's quote!
But it was in 2000 at The Player's Championship at the TPC course...second shot at the
difficult par 4 18th...and it was in fact " the right club"...to easy 2 putt range to edge Tiger by one.....when Tiger was Tiger.

 

[Jaydumo20]

Who was the "better than most"?

 

[BBallF]

"Today, I consider myself, the luckiest man on the face of the earth."

 

[BBallF]

"I'll make it."

 

[BBallF]

Two from the legendary Les Keiter:

" It's an in again, out again, Finnegan."

"Katie bar the door."

 

[huskeynut]

Another Ballentine Blast!!

 

[uconnfan68]

Who was the "better than most"?

Jim Nantz? At 17th green at TPC with Tiger rolling in a long putt.

 

[VA Huskie]

A bloop and a blast.

Bob Prince?

 

[Dugway]

‘You know, that would not have been hit out of a lot of parks’
‘Oh, name one’,
‘Yellowstone’

 

[VA Huskie]

"Today, I consider myself, the luckiest man on the face of the earth."

Lou Gehrig