Sports Quotes:

This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.
by Ted Walsh - Horse Racing Commentator

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
by Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks

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

I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.
by Greg Norman

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Doug Collins, basketball commentator

Half this game is ninety percent mental.
by Danny Ozark Philadelphia Phillies manager

Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.
by David Coleman

I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
by Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball

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

The racecourse is as level as a billiard ball.
by John Francombe

If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.
by Terry Venables

For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all- yellow strip.
by John Motson

There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.
by David Coleman at The Montreal Olympics

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Of course, we have to give the Spokespersons and Government Officials their own section.

Question: "If you could live forever, would you and why?"
Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever.'
by Miss Alabama In The 1994 Miss Universe Contest

Smoking kills, and if you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
by Brooke Shields - Anti-smoking spokesperson

I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs.
by Nancy Reagan former First Lady

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
by David Dinkins, NY City Mayor, (answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes).

Outside of the killings, Washington DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
by Mayor Marion Barry, Washington DC

The police are not here to create disorder. They're here to preserve disorder.
by former Chicago mayor Daley during the infamous 1968 Democratic Party convention

The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.
by Frank Rizzo - former Philadelphia mayor & police chief

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.
by former French president Charles de Gaulle

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Dan Quayle deserves his own section.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
by former U.S. vice-president Dan Quayle, at a fundraising event for the united negro college fund. He was attempting to quote the line "a mind is terrible thing to waste."

I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.
by former U.S. vice-president Dan Quayle

Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential natures as women.
by former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle, while campaigning in Kansas City, MO, 9/2/92 (reported in the NY times, 9/3/92)

I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.
by U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle trying to convince reporters that the economy was doing better because a Burger King had a ``now hiring'' sign in the window. He was campaigning for re-election in Ontario, CA, 1/17/92 (reported in Esquire, 8/92).

This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.
by Vice President Dan Quayle discussing John Sununu's resignation and apparent lack of flexibility, 12/6/91

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All of the Rest of "Did They Really Say That?"

There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane Either you have diarrhea, or you're eager to meet people who do.
by Henry Kissenger (former US Secretary of State)

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it. I said, 'Thyroid problem?'
Arnold Schwarzenegger

There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964.
by Roger Daltrey

It is bad luck to be superstitious.
by Andrew Mathis

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.
Mariah Carey

Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana ... The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are.
Matt Lauer on NBC's Today show, August 22.

Sure the body count in this movie bothers me, but what are you gonna do? It's what everybody likes. At least its not an awful body count--it's a fun body count.
Bonnie Bedelia, actress, regarding the movie Die Harder

We apologise for the error in last week's paper in which we stated that Mr Arnold Dogbody was a defective in the police force. We meant, of course, that Mr Dogbody is a detective in the police farce.
Correction Notice in the Ely Standard, a British newspaper

We're overpaying him but he's worth It..
Samuel Goldwyn

If you don't disagree with me, how will I know I'm right?
Samuel Goldwyn

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