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It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over
It’s Friday and it’s week four, or five, or six of your shelter in place life. Who’s counting? Is there light at the end of the tunnel? Gilead Sciences Corporation thinks so. Donald Trump thinks so. He rolled out a general guidelines plan for states to interpret as to how and when they can “return to normal.”
Can sports be far behind? Maybe. Big crowds in confined spaces seem like a dream at this point. But a dream is far better than this nightmare. With that hope, we give you a few great quotes from sports figures from years gone by below.
Some are fun. Some are inspirational. Some are competitive. Some are saucy. We need all of them right about now.
Muhammed Ali
“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”
Bobby Knight
“When my time on Earth is gone, and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass.
Paul “Bear” Bryant
“It’s not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”
Bobby Jones
“Competitive sports are played mainly on a five and a half-inch court, the space between your ears.”
Yogi Berra
“It ain’t over till it’s over.”
Martina Navratilova
“Whoever said, “It’s not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost.”
Jerry Rice
“I feel like I’m the best, but you’re not going to get me to say that.
GM Pat Williams
“We can’t win at home. We can’t win on the road. As a general manager, I just can’t figure out where else to play.”
Rocky Graziano
“I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn’t spell it.”
George Best (whoever he was)
“I spent 90 percent of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted!”
Joe Theismann
“Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Dennis Rodman
“Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.”
Hank Aaron
“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”
Jacques Plante
”Goaltending is a normal job, sure. How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and 15,000 people stood up and yelled at you?
Mike Ditka
“What’s the difference between a 3-week old puppy and a newspaper reporter? In six weeks the puppy stops whining.
Lou Pinella
“Statistics are like bikinis. They show a lot, but not everything.”
It’s the weekend. Turn off the news. Take a walk. Barbeque. Dream of sports returning soon.
Comment section
Trump could surely use Mike Ditka’s quote about now.
They both exhibit a bit of type A personalities.
My parents took me to see Martina Navratilova beat someone in 1979 or ’80 in Kansas City on a beautiful Spring day. I remember thinking how unfair her male attributes seemed to the petite waif she was destroying on the court. Short match indeed.
She just outworked everyone.
How about:
“Figures Lie and Liars Figure”.
Mark Twain
Go figure.
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