Friday, December 31, 2010

WHO SAYS PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES AREN'T SMART?

1. Chicago Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson on being a role model:

"I wan' all dem kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I wan' all the kids to copulate me."



2. New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked about the upcoming season:

"I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first."



3. And, upon hearing Joe Jacobi of the Skins say:

"I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl,"

Matt Millen of the Raiders said: "To win, I'd run over Joe's Mom, too."



4. Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins:

"He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."



5. Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann:

"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."



6. Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh :

"I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes."

(Now, that is beautiful!)



7. Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach:

"You guys line up alphabetically by height." And, "You guys pair up in groups of three, and then line up in a circle."



8. Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson going to prison:

"Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton ."



9. Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker:

"That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes."



10. Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota:

"He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning, regardless of what time it is."



11. Chuck Nevitt , North Carolina State basketball player, explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice:

"My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt."

(I wonder if his IQ ever hit room temperature in January)



12. Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player:

"I asked him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?'

He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'"



13. Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M, recounting what he told a player who received four F's and one D:

"Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject."



14. In the words of NC State great Charles Shackelford:

"I can go to my left or right.I am amphibious."



15. Amarillo High School and Oiler coach Bum Phillips when asked by Bob Costas why he takes his wife on all the road trips,

Phillips responded: "Because she is too damn ugly to kiss good-bye."

Monday, December 20, 2010

JUST A THOUGHT

I just read this on another blog    (Personally, I'd rather find ways of living on my shrinking income than search for more work, but that's just me. Others can make their own choices.)    Makes sence to me.makes you think does it not?

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

JUST A THOUGHT

I do not know why this morning my thoughts are running this way .But I was thinking of all the years I’ve been on this earth (76yrs). I never saw the people of this country so bitter over all kinds of issues. But I do know about when it started was when Murdoch's first permanent foray into TV in the USA, where he created Fox Broadcasting Company in 1986.Murdock found out from his father what sells News Papers and he rolled this type of journalism over in to TV.The way they do it is take an issue that every one is compassionate about.,sensationalize it ,they then manufacture all kinds of  issues around the issue that they are promoting to create controversy(hate,fear, any thing that will cause dissention..Remember Murdock is an Australian not an American whose sole purpose is to make MONEY