Sports Quotes
"Everyone knows the 'N' in Nebraska stands for knowledge." -
Anonymous Nebraska State Football Fan
"It ain't over til' it's over." -
Yogi Berra
"It's deja vu all over again." -
Yogi Berra
"When you come to a fork in the road...take it." -
Yogi Berra
"Half of this game is 90% mental." -
Yogi Berra
"I didn't really say everything I said." -
Yogi Berra
"In the three years I played we won six, lost 17, and tied two. Some statistician with a great capacity for charity calculated that won 75% of the games we didn't lose." - Roger M. Blough
"Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in the ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable." - Bobby Bragan
"Things were so bad in Chicago last year that by the fifth inning we were selling hot dogs to go." - Ken Brett
"Football is not a contact sport - it's a collision sport. Dancing is a
contact sport." -
Duffy Daughtery
"The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing." -
Dizzy Dean
"[I don't demand a lifetime contract because] I had a friend with a lifetime contract. After two bad years the university president called him into his office and pronounced him dead." - Bob Devany
"I'd love to be a procrastinator, but I never seem to get around to it." - Chris Dundee
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." - Jason Kidd
"When my time on
Earth is gone and my activities here are past,
"The reason we lost the game was you, it was your fault." - Bob Knight, to a player who did not play in that game
"I knew we were in trouble when we got there and their cheerleaders were bigger than us." - Matt McDonagh
"Everyone has some fear. A man who has no fear belongs in a mental institution. Or on special teams." - Walt Michaels
"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them are serious." - Alan Minter
"[When my sinker doesn't work] the batter still hits a grounder. But in this case the first bounce is 360 feet away." - Dan Quisenberry
"We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it." - Jack Ramsay
"A brain scan revealed Andrew Caddick is not suffering from a stress fracture of the skin." - Jo Sheldon
"They said it couldn't be done but sometimes it doesn't work out that
way." -
Casey Stengel
"Good hitting always stops good hitting and vice versa." -
Casey Stengel
"Oldtimers weekends and airplane landings are alike: If you can walk away
from them, they're successful." -
Casey Stengel
"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like
Norman Einstein." -
Joe Theisman
"[The typical fan] will scream from the 60th row of the bleachers that you
missed a marginal call in the center of the interior line and then won't be able
to find his car in the parking lot." -
Jim Tunney, NFL Referee
"The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is
identical" -
Murray Walker