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1. Chicago Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson on being a role model
"I want all them kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me."

2. New Orleans Saints RB George Rogers, when asked about the upcoming season:
"I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first."
3. And, upon hearing Joe Jacobi of the Redskin's say:
"I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl,"
Matt Millen of the Raiders replied: "To win, I'd run over Joe's Mom too."

4. Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins:
"He treat us like mens. He let us wear earrings."

5. Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann:
"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

6. 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)

7. Bill Peterson, a FloridaState football coach:
"You guys line up alphabetically by height." . . . And, "You guys pair up in groups of three, and then line up in a circle."

8. Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson going to prison:
"Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton."

9. Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a photo of himself above his locker:
"That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes."

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

11. Chuck Nevitt, North CarolinaState 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 January's outside temperature in Buffalo)

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

13. 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."

14. In the words of NC State great Charles Shackelford:
"I can go to my left or right, I am amphibious."

15. Former Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips when asked by Bob Costas why he takes his wife on all the road trips, Phillips responded:
"Because she's too ugly to kiss good-bye."

1. "I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player."
-John Kruk

2. "I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it."
-Football coach Ray Malavasi

3. "We're not attempting to circumcise rules."
-Bill Cowher, Pittsburgh Steelers coach

4. "Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago..."
-David Coleman

5. "This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother."
-Ted Walsh - Horse Racing Commentator

6. "Ninety percent of putts that are short don't go in."
-Yogi Berra on golf

7. "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father"
-Greg Norman

8. "You can sum up this sport in two words: You never know."
-Lou Duva, boxing trainer

9. "I don't want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win."
-Sherman Douglas

10. "It's almost like we have ESPN."
-Magic Johnson, on how well he and James Worthy work together

11. "I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf."
-Tug McGraw, asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf

12. "Hawaii doesn't win many games in the United States."
-Football analyst Lee Corso

Hope I get this right. Back in the late 70's, before cable, you didn't have 30 college football games on TV every Saturday. There were only a few TV stations, which showed about two games every Saturday; one probably at 1PM, and one around 4PM. Anyhow, Pitt at that time was coached by Jackie Sherrill. I think Pitt was playing Penn State at Beaver Stadium in the season finale, when Sherrill sent Fast Freddie Jacobs out onto the field for the coin toss. Sherril gave him specific instructions that if he won the toss, Pitt was to receive, but if the coin toss was lost and PSU decided to receive, Pitt would take the wind. Well, in front of a national TV audience (as the Pitt-Penn State game was about as big as it got in those days), Pitt won the toss and Freddie said "We want to receive and take the wind". Well. the ref said that he could either take the ball or the wind. Freddie insisted that Pitt wanted the ball and the wind. Well, in front of millions of football fans, the ref, after about 5 minutes, finally talked some sense into the PITT running back and Pitt elected to receive. PSU then took the wind.