Posted by CatTales
on 8/2/2009, 1:56 am
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“LeBron James had a benign growth removed from his jaw. The good news is that surgery went fine. The bad news is that he refused to shake hands with his doctors.”
– Dashiell Bennett from Deadspin.com
“You do it all the way through Little League, all the way up to high school or college. After that it’s nonexistent. It’s a great sign of sportsmanship. I’m not against it, but I’m not going to stand on the picket line and wait for that to happen. It probably won’t happen in our time.”
– Seattle Mariners’ first baseman Mike Sweeney on the absence of postgame handshakes in Major League Baseball
“I don’t see anybody in the NFL saying, ‘I’m sorry. I held the guy. Give me 10 yards.’ That doesn’t happen. What separates our sport from other sports is the tradition of sportsmanship when you doff your cap and shake someone’s hand and look them in the eyes and say, ‘Well done.’”
– Golfer Tiger Woods
"I called Tiger Woods last night. I laughed, and I hung up."
– British Open champion Stewart Cink reading one of the top 10 surprising facts about himself on the "Late Show with David Letterman" (Woods failed to make the cut at the Open)
“Los Angeles Dodgers star Manny Ramirez tuned up for his return to the majors with the minor league Albuquerque Isotopes. They play near a nuclear weapons lab. If you think Manny played well on steroids, wait until you see his numbers on uranium.”
– Comedian Argus Hamilton
“If nobody finds out? Well then, it’s not cheating, is it? In motorsports, we work in the gray areas a lot. You’re trying to find where the holes are in the rulebook.”
– IndyCar driver Danica Patrick on whether she would use a performance-enhancing drug to help her win the Indianapolis 500
“She knows what we’ve got on her. She’s a gold digger. I knew that from day one. She’s basically a whore. She shot and killed my dad.”
– NASCAR racer Jeremy Mayfield after being suspended for failing his second drug test and learning that his stepmother sent an affidavit to authorities accusing him of using drugs 30 times
“Okay, first Mrs. Fawcett now Mr. Jackson, please tell me that this is a mistaken rumor, if not this is just as sad as 9/11.”
– Tweet from Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Javon Ochocinco (Chad Johnson) after learning of the deaths of Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson
“I’m sorry to ESPN’s SportsCenter for dominating your highlights all the time. In the interest of fairness, you got to show other people…I would like to apologize for the Joe Buck Show. Someone needs to…I’m sorry about Windows Vista. It’s not the operating system I thought it would be…I apologize for the stock market, the housing market, and the cash-only policy at most farmers markets.”
– Buffalo Bills wide receiver Terrell Owens announcing on Comedy Central that “It’s going to be as busy season. I figure I better get all my future apologies out of the way now.”
"NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is nearing a ruling on Michael Vick’s case. He’s good at this. Last year he arranged for the Cincinnati Bengals to wear striped uniforms so when they go to prison, they won’t have to change."
– Comedian Argus Hamilton
“She certainly has a distinguished career. The real question is how she views her role as a judge: whether it is to advance causes or groups or whether it is to call balls and strikes.”
– Judiciary Committee member and Senator John Cornyn on Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor
“When one player plays bad, he must lose. I didn’t play my best tennis, and for that reason I lose. It’s not a tragedy. I had to lose one day. I must accept my defeats with the same level of calm that I accept my victories.”
– Tennis player Rafael Nadal after losing in the French Open after 31 straight wins
“Grunting is one thing, but the shrill sound that you hear – especially when they get louder when they hit a winner – that’s the thing I observe as a player. That’s a distraction to me because you are hearing a loud grunt before you see the shot. You are kind of thrown off guard, and before you know, the ball gets past you.”
– Former tennis player Chris Evert on the difficulty she would have playing with today’s louder, shriller, grunting players
“It would’ve been a hell of a story, wouldn’t it? It wasn't to be…When all is said and done, one of the things I hope that will come out of my life is that my peers will say that Watson, he was a hell of a golfer.”
– 59-year-old Tom Watson after missing a putt on the 18th hole to win the British Open and losing the match in the playoff
~ Classic From the Past ~
“He’s a guy who gets up at six o’clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.”
– Boxing manager Lou Duva
What we allow, we encourage.
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