Off Topic: What are your favorite quotes?

[®2 gwaH ytraPa]

After a particularly bad throw by the Vanderbilt 3rd baseman in the Friday night opener this past season:

"I've seen better throws on an old ladies lap!" HogBusGuy, 2007.

[clifflee4mvp™]

whenpigsfly said:

"When all is said and done, usually more is said than done."

I'm also a fan of "When all is said and done.........there's nothng more to say or do."

[HogRyder]

"They said it couldn't be done but sometimes it doesn't work out
that way." - Casey Stengel

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein

"It's easy to get good players. Getting 'em to play together, that's the hard part." - Casey Stengel
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death." - Earl Wilson

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain

"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it." - Edith Sitwell

"In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first-ahead of personal glory." - Paul Bear Bryant


From Field of Dreams:
The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again. Oh people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come. (James Earl Jones)

"Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal."
George Will

"You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain."
Leo Durocher

"Baseball is dull only to dull minds." Red Smith

“Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.” - unknown

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
— Benjamin Franklin


and finally something G sent me:
"I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me." - unknown

[clifflee4mvp™]

Football Coaches' Quotes ....

"At Georgia Southern, we don't cheat. That costs money and we don't have any."

Erk Russell / Georgia Southern.


"Football is only a game. Spiritual things are eternal. Nevertheless, Beat Texas."

Seen on a church sign in Arkansas prior to the 1969 game.


"After you retire, there's only one big event left .... and I ain't ready for that."

Bobby Bowden / Florida State


"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it."

Lou Holtz / Arkansas


"When you win, nothing hurts."

Joe Namath / Alabama


"Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated."

Lou Holtz / Arkansas


"A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall."

Frank Leahy / Notre Dame


"There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you."

Woody Hayes / Ohio State


"I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation."

Bob Devaney / Nebraska



"You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life."

Paul Dietzel / LSU


"It's kind of hard to rally around a math class."

Bear Bryant / Alabama


When asked if Fayetteville was the end of the world. "No, but you can see it from here."

Lou Holtz / Arkansas


"I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game."

Bear Bryant / Alabama


"There's one sure way to stop us from scoring -give us the ball near the goal line."

Matty Bell / SMU


"Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died."

Frank Leahy / Notre Dame


"I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's."

Alex Karras / Iowa


"My advice to defensive players:Take the shortest route to the ball and arrive in a bad humor."

Bowden Wyatt / Tennessee


"I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades."

Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State


"Always remember ..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David."

Shug Jordan / Auburn


"They cut us up like boarding house pie... and that's real small pieces."

Darrell Royal / Texas


"Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure."

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame


"They whipped us like a tied up goat."

Spike Dykes / Texas Tech


"I asked Darrell Royal, the coach of the Texas Longhorns, why he didn't recruit me and he said: "Well,Walt, we took a look at you and you weren't any good."

Walt Garrison / Oklahoma State


"Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel."

Bobby Bowden / Florida State


"Football is not a contact sport - it is a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport."

Duffy Daugherty / Michigan State


After USC lost 51-0 to Notre Dame, his post-game message to his team: "All those who need showers, take them."

John McKay / USC


"If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education."

Murray Warmath / Minnesota



"It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it."

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame



"We live one day at a time and scratch where it itches."

Darrell Royal / Texas


"We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking."

John McKay / USC


"Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad."

Darrell Royal / University of Texas


"I've found that prayers work best when you have big players."

Knute Rockne / Notre Dame

(courtesy of razorbass)

[Dale]

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. – Buddha


Life is just one damned thing after another. – Elbert Hubbard


If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. - Isaac Asimov


To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. - Oscar Wilde


We are always getting ready to live but never living. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. - George Orwell


The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. - Abraham Lincoln

[Dr. HeathHog]

another Lou Holtz gem:
"That guy runs a 4.2 forty which means he gets to the wrong place faster than anyone else on our team."

[Dale]

I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like victory. - Apocalypse Now, Robert Duvall


Either he's dead, or my watch has stopped. - A Day at the Races, Groucho Marx


Marriage isn't a word…it's a sentence! - The Crowd


That's 30 minutes away. I'll be there in 10. - Pulp Fiction, Harvey Kietel


I have nipples, Greg, would you milk me? - Meet the Parents, Robert de Niro


This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. - Club, Edward Norton

[ahmo52]

Fred Goldsmith former Rice Football coach (1993-1998), when asked how he thought his team would do in the up coming year said "Well we were 0-11 last year and we have everbody back"

[Charlie]

Woody Hayes when asked why he went for two at the end of a blowout win over Michigan: "because I couldn't go for three."

[clifflee4mvp™]

"I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occassions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot . . . and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why . . . I succeed." --Michael Jordan

[clifflee4mvp™]

"Hell, I don't even watch the pros. If the NBA was on Channel 5 and a bunch
of frogs making love were on Channel 4, I'd watch the frogs--even if they
came in fuzzy."

- Bob Knight-on coaching in the pros

[Bruinstyle2001®]

"What say there, fuzzy britches?"
- The Shawshank Redemption

"I guess it comes down to a simple choice really: get busy living or get busy dying."
- The Shawshank Redemption

"Sometimes it makes me sad, though, Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are just too bright... and when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice... but still, the place you live is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend."
- The Shawshank Redemption

[otherhogbusguy]

bruinstyle2001 said:

"What say there, fuzzy britches?"
- The Sawshank Redemption

"I guess it comes down to a simple choice really: get busy living or get busy dying."
- The Sawshank Redemption

"Sometimes it makes me sad, though, Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are just too bright... and when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice... but still, the place you live is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend."
- The Sawshank Redemption

"Did somebody watch the Shawshank Redemption today? Hmm??"
- Otherhogbusguy, 2007

[clifflee4mvp™]

otherhogbusguy said:

bruinstyle2001 said:

"What say there, fuzzy britches?"
- The Sawshank Redemption

"I guess it comes down to a simple choice really: get busy living or get busy dying."
- The Sawshank Redemption

"Sometimes it makes me sad, though, Andy being gone. I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are just too bright... and when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice... but still, the place you live is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend."
- The Sawshank Redemption

"Did somebody watch the Shawshank Redemption today? Hmm??"
- Otherhogbusguy, 2007

no if you'll notice he watched "sawsank redemption"

[otherhogbusguy]

clifflee4mvp said:

otherhogbusguy said:

"Did somebody watch the Shawshank Redemption today? Hmm??"
- Otherhogbusguy, 2007

no if you'll notice he watched "sawsank redemption"

must be some B version starring "has beens". I bet the "Dirt Guy" was in it.

**Edit - after being telephone called by said "Dirt Guy", I feel compelled (by legal notice) to state that my intention was not to refer to the "Dirt Guy" as a "has been," rather to state that it was my belief he could star in a B movie of some sort. That is all.