Rather Funny Sports Quotes

** New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked about the upcoming season, "I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first."

** Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh, "I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes."

** "Shaquille O'Neal [basketball] on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece, "I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to."

** Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach, "You guys line up alphabetically by height." And "You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle."

** Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota, "He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is."

** Chuck Nevitt, North Carolina State basketball player, explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice, "My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt."

** Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player, "I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'

** Oiler coach, Bum Phillips, when asked by Bob Cost why he takes his wife on all road trips, Phillips responded, "Because she is too damn ugly to kiss good-bye!"

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