Stupid Sports Quotes

You have all heard them a time or two. Just statements made by our pots heroes that make us just go; "HUH?"

Some of these quotes you may very well remember and chuckle. Some, if like me you will just shake your head and wonder what they were thinking about when they said these things. Or were they thinking, maybe that is the better question.

"Me and George and Billy are two of a kind."
-Baseball player Mickey Rivers, on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin

"The game was closer than the score indicated."
-Baseball player Dizzy Dean, after a 1-0 game

"Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean."
-Pedro Guerrero, on sportswriters

"I lost it in the sun!"
-Billy Loes, Brooklyn Dodgers Pitcher, after fumbling a grounder.

"I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming."
-Johnny Bench

"He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."
-Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins, 1991

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

"I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first."
-New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers

"My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt."
-Chuck Nevitt , North Carolina State basketball player, explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice, 1982

"I will shoot all you Asian (bleeps) ... Do you remember the Vietnam War? I'll kill y'all just like that."
-Point guard Jason Williams to a fan of Asian descent sitting behind the Kings bench during a game at Golden State. Williams was fined $15,000 by the NBA.

"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious"
-Alan Minter

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

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

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

"That's what I call the ultimate laxative."
-Canadian Prime Minister of Sports Otto Jelinek, after riding the luge down the Winter Olympics course.