[BITList] Why Athletes Don't Have Jobs

[realm33 at msn.com]

Great sayings and statements from coaches and athletes.
  
> Chicago Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson on being a role model: "I wan'

>all dem kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I wan' all the kids to

>copulate me."

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> 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."

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> And, upon hearing Joe Jacobi of the 'Skins say: "I'd run over my own

>mother to win the Super Bowl," Matt Millen of the Raiders said: "To win,

>I'd run over Joe's Mom, too."

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> Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John

>Jenkins: "He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."

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> Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann, 1996: "Nobody

>in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman

>Einstein."

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> Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh: "I'm going

>to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes." (now that is beautiful)

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> 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."

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> Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson hooking up again with

>promoter Don King: "Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He

>went to prison for three years, not Princeton."

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> Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a

>color photo of himself above his locker: "That's so when I forget how to

>spell my name, I can still find my clothes."

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> Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of

>heavyweight Andrew Golota: "He's a guy who gets up at 6 o'clock in the

>morning regardless of what time it is."

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> 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."

>(I wonder if his IQ ever hit room temperature in January)

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> 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.'"

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> Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M, recounting what he

>told a player who received four F's and one D: "Son, looks to me like

>you're spending too much time on one subject."

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> Amarillo High School and Oiler coach Bum Phillips when asked by Bob

>Costas why he takes his wife on all the road trips, Phillips responded:

>"Because she is too ugly to kiss good-bye."

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