Great Sporting Wisdom: Legendary Quotes from the World of Sport

It Doesn’t Add Up

The Pirates won eight of their 102 losses against the Mets last year.

Ralph Kiner, Pittsburgh Pirates

Papal Bull

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!

Phil Rizutto – Yankee announcer after announcing the death of Pope Paul VI

Misunderstanding

I remember a reporter asking for a quote, and I didn’t know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of drink.

Joe DiMaggio

Like Father…

Where do folks get off criticising my grammar? I only went up to the second grade, and if I’d gone up to the third, I’d have passed my Old Man.

Dizzy Dean

Dizzy Diet

Sure, I eat what I advertise. Sure, I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can’t be beat.

Dizzy Dean

Dizzyspeak

During a TV commentary: He slud into second.

After his grammar was faulted: What should I have said – sludded?

Dizzy Dean

Muckspreader

You could plant two thousand rows of corn with the fertiliser [Tommy] LaSorda spreads around.

Joe Garagiola, TV commentator

Beyond The Grave

If Casey Stengel were alive today, he’d be spinning in his grave.

Ralph Kiner

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Welcome to Magic’s world. The following compilation provides a graphic and entertaining tour of the mind of some of the sport’s greatest artists – even the famed ‘dream team’. It is a guide or travelogue around the weird ways in which people pursue sporting pleasure. Packed in equal measure with invaluable information are useless trivia and rude comments, containing wry observations about everything and anything.

Prize and Prejudice

The trouble with referees is that they just don’t care which side wins.

Tom Canterbury, NBA player

High Flyer

If I were given a change of life, I’d like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.

Wilt ‘The Stilt’ Chamberlain, Golden State Warriors/LA Lakers

Happy Birthdays

I’m six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.

Darryl Dawkins, Philadelphia 76ers

Regrets

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.

Bill Fitch, unsuccessful coach, during a losing run

An Honest Crook

I thought I was an honest guy, and just doing what everyone else was doing – bending the rules.

Manny Goldstein, University of New Mexico recruiter

Survival of the Fittest

Quick guys get tired; big guys don’t shrink.

Coach Marv Harshman on recruiting players from college

Family Ties

I didn’t hire Scott as assistant coach because he’s my son. I hired him because I’m married to his mother.

Frank Layden

Keeping Both Options Open