“Favorite sports quotes”
This was on the local sports website today. So let’s do it. A friend and I still joke about the following one to this day. It represents every trip to the mound wondering what in hell the conversation could possibly be about.
Candlesticks make a nice gift.
- Bull Durham
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"You couldn't hit water if you fell out of a effin boat"
-Bull Durham
"looks like Tarzan, hits like Jane"
from unnamed pro scout.
Bob
"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple"
"Baseball is like church. Many attend. Few understand."
--Leo Durocher
You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Crash Davis to Nuke Laloosh: “Yep. Man, that ball got out of here in a hurry. Anything that travels that far ought to have a damn stewardess on it, don’t you think?”
Lollygagging by Skip and Larry
Whats are record? 8-16
How we ever win 8? It’s a miracle
Also, pretty much anything quoted by Jimmy Dugan is a classic
there is no crying in baseball
"you're killing me smalls" is kinda a baseball quote.
"Juuuust a bit outside"
Harry Doyle
@ReluctantO'sFan posted:
... Also, pretty much anything quoted by Jimmy Dugan is a classic ...
and pretty much all of Lou Brown's lines in Major League
"looks like Tarzan, hits like Jane"
There was one like that about Johnny Damon: "Looks like Jesus, acts like Judas, throws like Mary"
I always liked this one. There are a couple versions. I know I heard NHL'er Brendan Shanahan say it, and Ray Shero had a version. "Because of where we've walked together, we'll walk together forever"
So much from Bull Durham: "I held it like an egg", "Yeah and he scrambled the SOB"
" No David, the Yankees are paying you 3.5 million to play against them"
One of my favorites....
Vitas Gerulaitis commenting after finally beating Jimmy Connors after 16 attempts -- "Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row"
Former Los Angeles Lakers broadcaster Chick Hearn: The game's in the refrigerator, the door's closed, the light's out, the eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard and the Jell-O's jiggling.
Runs like a deer. Unfortunately he hits like one too.
- unnamed scout
The only thing you know about pitching is you can’t hit it.
- Bob Gibson to Tim McCarver
"So, who is coming in second?" - Larry Bird
When Bird arrived at Chicago Stadium to defend his back-to-back three-point titles in 1988 all-star game, he looked around the locker room and asked, “So, who’s coming in second?” Naturally, Bird backed up his trash talk and won the contest for the third year in a row.
I saw my 14 year old son laughing , when he was talking to a D1 pitcher. Later i asked him, what was said that made him laugh. He told me that the D1 pitcher gave him some advice when he approaches to mound to pitch.
" You gotta KNOW that you've got the biggest di_k in the Ball Park!
Bob Uecker has a million great quotes. The guy is just flat out funny. Either ESPN or MLB did an entire program on his career as a player and Brewers broadcaster that was hilarious. Here are couple of my favs :
"People don't know this but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it."
"I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he didn't have that kind of dough. But he eventually scraped it up."
"They said I was such a great prospect that they were sending me to a winter league to sharpen up. When I stepped off the plane, I was in Greenland."
"When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...rdTr2Tyo&index=4
This is poor video quality but you gotta love Bob.
@fenwaysouth posted:Bob Uecker has a million great quotes. The guy is just flat out funny. Either ESPN or MLB did an entire program on his career as a player and Brewers broadcaster that was hilarious. Here are couple of my favs :
"People don't know this but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it."
"I signed with the Milwaukee Braves for three-thousand dollars. That bothered my dad at the time because he didn't have that kind of dough. But he eventually scraped it up."
"They said I was such a great prospect that they were sending me to a winter league to sharpen up. When I stepped off the plane, I was in Greenland."
"When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes."
One of the MLB Network Voices of Baseball series was on Uecker. I believe there are six shows so far hosted by Costas and Verducci.
