Best sports quotes [ANY SPORT]

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"Those pictures were taken and sent over a year and a half ago, so I've definitely grown since then." Greg Oden


"If you send a woman a picture of your junk, it should be humongous. ... That's one of the Ten Commandments."

After an Olympic Dream Team victory over Angola, in which they won 116-48, Charles got into a physical altercation with a member of Angola towards the end of the game, afterwards he says: "Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a couple weeks. I thought he was going to pull a spear on me."



"We better not be doing the Bulls this year. Man, they suck! Bunch of high school kids with $70 million contracts. Damn! I hate my mother for having me too soon."'

After retiring from basketball "I'm just what America needs - another unemployed black man.

Ernie: "Did they recognize you in South Dakota?"
Charles: "Yes, they did. It was easy because I was the only black person there. When they see me walking down the street they say 'There he goes again'. And when I come back the next year they say 'He's back yawl!'"

Charles Barkley on his thoughts about retiring before the season: "I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'"

"I know why his name is DMX. Because his real name is Earl. Imagine if his name was Earl the rapper."

"It's kinda great to see the Celtics doin well again cuz that was so much fun in my day to go to the Boston Garden and they spit at you and throw things at you and talk about your mom. It sounds like dinner at Kenny Smith's house."

While watching someone in Australia put $1 million worth of rubies on a table: "Damn, must not be any black folks in Australia. You can't just leave $1 million worth of jewelry lying around the 'hood."

I'd never buy my girl a watch... she's already got a clock over the stove.

"When I was recruited at Auburn [university], they took me to a strip joint. When I saw those titties on Buffy, I knew that Auburn met my academic requirements."

"Hey Stanley, you could be a great player if you learned just two words: I'm full."-- Barkley yelling to 300-plus-pound Houston Rockets teammate Stanley Roberts

After throwing a guy through a 1st floor window in a bar Charles was in front of the judge.
Judge: "Your sanctions are community service and a fine, do you have any regrets?"
Charles: "Yeah I regret we weren't on a higher floor"

 

"Do you be believe in miracles!?"

 

After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: "The French are predictably unpredictable."
Andrew Mehrtens.

“Three darkies, no more"
Andy Haden

 

"We talkin about practice!"

 

"I don't want to not live because of my fear of what could happen..." ~Laird Hamilton
easily the greatest big wave surfer of all time

"i risked my life for the sport i love" ~Jonah Lomu
best rugby winger every
after he had kidney surgery he was told he would be in a wheel chair for the rest of his life. but against doctors orders he still played for the all blacks risking his life.

 

i failed over and over again in my life and that is why i succeed -Michael Jordan

 

Why you gravedigging?

 

once youve wrestled, everything else in life is easy - dan gable

 

Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

 

"You reach I teach." - Michael Jordan.

 

"I was gonna rip his heart out. I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He's no Alexander! I'm Alexander! I'm the best ever. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's never been anyone like me. I'm from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!" - Iron Mike

 

"The batsman is Holding, the bowler's Willie."

 

"Never give up"