SPORTS QUOTES

1. Well, I see in the game in Minnesota that Terry Felton has relieved himself on the mound in the second inning. — Fred White, Kansas City Royals sportscaster, reading a wire-service summary that mistakenly showed the same starter and relief pitcher for the Minnesota Twins.

2. “I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.” - Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

3. “We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.” - Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks.

4. “I’ve won at every level, except college and pro.”
-Shaquille O’Neal, on his lack of championships.

5. “I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn’t spell it.”
-Boxing great Rocky Graziano

6. “I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father”
-Greg Norman

7. “I’m rich. What am I supposed to do, hide it?”
-Detroit Tiger Lou Whitaker, arriving in a stretch limo for a players’ union meeting during the 1994 baseball strike.

8. “The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.”
Dizzy Dean explaining how he felt after being hit on the head by a ball in the 1934 World Series.

9. “I can play in the center, on the right, and occasionally on the left side.” – soccer star David Beckham, asked if he was a “volatile” player.

10. “Half this game is ninety per cent mental.” - Danny Ozark, Philadelphia Phillies manager.

Honorable mention:

“There is one word in America that says it all, and that word is, ‘You never know.’”
-Pitcher Joaquin Andujar

“That’s why I don’t talk. Because I talk too much.”
-Joaquin Andujar