Sports Quote - part 1

[Arvon]

With the Stupid Bowl comming this sunday I thought I'd post these quotes by various people. Yes there will be a part 2. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

SPORTS
Professional sports should be reported on the entertainment pages along with circuses and vaudeville.
—AVERY BRUNDAGE
A football coach has to be smart enough to understand the
game but dumb enough to think it's important.
—EUGENE MCCARTHY
Football: a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
—ELBERT HUBBARD
Can't anything be done about calling these guys "student
athletes?" That's like referring to Attila the Hun's cavalry
as "weekend warriors."
—RUSSELL BAKER
Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
—GEORGE WILL
Baseball must be a great game to survive the fools who run it.
— BILL TERRY
Baseball owners have moral scruples against taking any man's dollar when there is a chance to take a dollar and a quarter.
—RED SMITH
I have discovered, in 20 years of moving around a ball
park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse
proportion to the price of the seats.
— BILL VEECK
Baseball is what we were, football is what we have-become.
—MARY McGRORY
If the players were armed with guns, there wouldn't be stadiums large enough to hold the crowds.
—IRWIN SHAW
Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is
a gentleman's game played by beasts; football is a beastly
game played by beasts.
— HENRY BLAHA

[cormack]

---> so you want the Raiders then