QUOTE OF THE DAY

Archie Moore, legendary US World champion boxer on one of my idols The "Brockton Blockbuster", World champ Rocky Marciano with 49 wins from 49 fights and 43 KOs:

Rocky Marciano didn't know enough boxing to know what a feint was. He never tried to out-fox you. He just kept trying to knock your brains out.

Marciano's potential as a fighter was discovered in a Wind Street, Swansea pub (will post the name when I remember it) just after WW2 when US troops were waiting to be repatriated. He starched a much bigger Aussie who'd challenged him during a fracas in the pub.
 
Gary Player, legendary South African golfer and a genuinely nice, humble and polite guy:

It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well I'd miss her.
 
Seve Ballesteros:

I don't trust doctors. They are like golfers. Every one has a different answer to your problem.
 
Marc-Vivien Foe Cameroonian footballer detailing the treatment he was offered for the broken leg he sustained during the 1998 World Cup finals:

In Cameroon, healers have said they will be able to cure me in three days by burying my leg in the ground and putting fire around it. They have also recommended massage with gorilla bones while invoking the spirits of ancestors. Physiotherapy would involve going on a hedgehog hunt.

Probably several steps more advanced than what's on offer at the Liberty if the medical treatment is the same standard as our football! :ROFLMAO:
 
The Field magazine 1886.

£1 per week be ample remuneration for the best professional footballer that ever existed.
 
Metaphors?

We didn't have metaphors in my day. We didn't beat about the bush. Fred Trueman, English cricketer.

If you can't stand the heat in the dressing room, get out of the kitchen. Terry Venables, English footballer and manager.

I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel. Stuart Pearce, English footballer.

Glenn is putting his head in the frying pan. Ossie Ardiles, Argentinian footballer on England manager Glenn Hoddle.

Wimbledon are putting balls into the blender. Rodney Marsh, English footballer.

The lads ran their socks into the ground. Sir Alex Ferguson, Scottish football manager.

I've got a gut feeling in my stomach. Sir Alan Sugar, Spurs chairman.
 
One of my favourite stories/quotes:
Peter Falk (Columbo) was working on the set of a film and, in between takes, was rinsing bets out of everyone on set playing pool, a game at which he was very, very good. Wanting to get their own back, his 'victims' employed a professional pool player claiming he was a career dentist working on the movie as an extra for the experience. As soon as Falk clocked the new face he challenged him to play pool. After being hammered in game after game Falk took him to one side and said:

Say, Doc, if you fill teeth like you do pockets, you must be worth a fucking fortune!
 
Dr Ferdie Pacheco, US doctor and sports commentator:

They're selling video cassettes of the Ali-Spinks fight for $89.95. Hell, for that money Spinks will come to your house.
 
Tommy Docherty, Scottish football manager on his dismissal from PNE:

They offered me a handshake of £10,000 to settle amicably. I told them they would have to be a lot more amicable than that.
 
Karl-Heinz Thielen, German football manager referring to his squad at FC Cologne in 1982:

Some of our players can barely write their own names but you should see them add up.
 
Lee Trevino, US golfer: (Did you know that Lee as a young hustler learned his trade at golf clubs where he bet members that he could beat them using a taped up Dr Pepper bottle as his 'club'.)

Real pressure in golf is playing for $10 when you've only got $5 in your pocket.
 
Jack Kelly Jr, US sports administrator:

The difference between an amateur and professional athlete is the latter is paid by cheque.
 
Chris Turner speaking as Peterborough mananger before a League Cup quarter final in 1992:

I told the players we need to win so that I can have the cash to buy some new ones.

Not much of an incentive for his team! :LOL:
 
Jan Aage Fjortoft, Norwegian footballer on Juninho's transfer to Boro in 1995:

Juninho will only need to learn a few words of English. Pound. Thank you. Bye Bye.
 
David Miller, British sportswriter:

To find a way past Bobby Moore was like searching for the exit from Hampton Court maze.
 
Stirling Moss, legendary British motor racing driver:

There are two things no man will ever admit he can't do well - drive and make love.
 
Not a quote as such but something funny I overheard when Mickey Van de Ven made that fantastic run in a Spurs game that set up Brennan Johnson for a tap-in. The commentator dryly remarked something along the lines of:

Van de Ven is a very quick player and has been clocked at over 23 mph. That would make him illegal in some British town centres.

Loved that quip. Some commentators on occasion do light up a game with some observations that are quite funny. I remember when Calvin Phillips accidentally flattened the referee when playing for Leeds. The commentator remarked:

Calvin Phillips doesn't mind who he tackles.

Loved that one as well. :)
 
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