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If You Are Gonna Talk the Talk
Last week seemed to have been filled with a bit more rancor than most. So much so that we wrote this.
After a week of too much misdirected, failed, or ill-advised passion we decided to end it on a somewhat lighter note that allows us to forget for a bit all of the above. Sports. Now that’s passion directed in the right direction 24/7. Combatants on any field, arena, or track of competition bring out the love of the game in all of us. Their actions and subsequent achievements are plenty enough to gain a sense of the love for their chosen filed of dreams. But, sometimes their passion spills over into their words as well. Below we offer to you in no particular order some inspirational quotes from some intense sport folks.
Well, today we offer you a few savage quotes. Savage quotes are like verbal daggers in your back. Except, in the often heated moment of sports and its resultant aftermath, these sharp words are aimed directly at the intended target’s heart. In the coming weeks we’ll bring you more as they are plentiful and never disappoint. For now, enjoy the beast mode bravado of these seven quotes below.
- “But the real tragedy was that fifteen hadn’t been colored in yet.” —Steve Spurrier then head coach at South Carolina on the Auburn dorm room fire that, among other things, burned 20 books.
- “I dunno, I’ve never smoked any Astro Turf.” —Tug McGraw on being asked if he preferred natural grass or artificial turf.
- “Because there are no fours.” —Antoine Walker when asked why he took so many threes.
- ” I will eat your children.” —Mike Tyson spoke directly to Lennox Lewis in the prefight weigh in. Lewis knocked him out when they fought.
- “These are my new shoes. They are good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, and they definitely won’t make you handsome like me, they’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.” — Charles Barkley on his new signature shoes.
- “I’m not worried about the Sacramento Queens.” —Shaquille O’Neal responded in the heat of the 2002-2003 season when the Kings were the upstart team and suddenly popular choice to end the Lakers dominance in the west.
- “All he does is talk. He’s terrible, and you can print that. I was happy when he was in the game.” —Bill Belicheck unloaded this dandy right after the 2004 Super Bowl when his secondary held Freddie Mitchell to one catch. Mitchell was running his mouth in the weeks leading up to the game about not even knowing who the NE secondary players were.
Running your mouth isn’t good. But when you can back it up, well.
As Jimmy Johnson once said, “if you gonna talk the talk, you gotta walk the walk.”