Best Quotes - Players/Coaches
Best Quotes - Coach John McKay
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Max McGee, Packers, at Super Bowl I - "When it's third and 10, you take the milk drinkers, I'll take the whiskey drinkers".
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Mike Ditka, Bears Coach, on quarterback Jim McMahon's shoulder surgery- "The shoulder surgery was a success, the lobotomy failed".
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Sam Wyche, Bengals coach, when cussing about a players game performance- "Get somebody fresh in there...even if he's bad".
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Peyton Manning, Quarterback-"Pressure? Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing".
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Joe Namath, Jets Quarterback- "I don't know if I prefer artificial turf or grass, I never smoked artificial turf".
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Bill Parcells, coach- "Some of these guys don't look like they're going to make it...they have that brook trout look".
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Jerry Glanville, coach, on 300 pound Tackle Lincoln Kennedy- "He can be a great player in this league if he learns to say two words: I'm full".
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Buddy Ryan, Bears/Eagles coach on running back Ernest Jackson- "Trade him for a six-pack, even if it's warm".
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Mike Golic, Browns/Eagles Defensive Tackle- "If you're mad at your kid, teach him to be a nose tackle or send him to play in the freeway...it's pretty much the same thing".
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Russ Francis, Patriots Tight End- "If defensive tackles IQ's were 5% lower, they'd be Geraniums".
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Steve McMichael, Bears Defensive Tackle- "Ten thousand bucks if ya knock Montana out of the game, I don't care if you hit him with a whiskey bottle as he gets off the bus".
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Dan Hampton, Bears Defensive Tackle, when asked about Injury List categories doubtful, questionable and probable- "They ought to call it weaseling out, wimping out and squirreling out".
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Jim Finks, Saints Owner (mindful of league rules against referee bashing)- "I am not allowed to talk about the lousy officiating".
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Bill Cowher, Steelers Coach - "We are not attempting to circumcise the rules".
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Bill Hargrove, Steelers Announcer - "The Steelers/Ravens rivalry is so intense it shouldn't be played on a field in the afternoon, but in a dark alley at midnight.
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McKay, after a loss- "We didn't block anyone and we made up for it by not tackling".
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After playing against Joe Namath- "We knocked him around some, but we were too nice to him. One guy stood around him long enough to get his autograph".
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"Kickers are like horse manure, they're all over the place".
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McKay on his warm weather team (Tampa Bay) playing in cold Green Bay: "If a contest had 97 prizes, number 98 would be a trip to Green Bay"
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After a game when the media asked about his team's execution- "Put me down as being all for it".
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On his first win after 26 straight losses- "Now 3 or 4 plane crashes and we're in the playoffs".
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"We stunk, we blocked bad, we were terrible on defense, and our kicking game made up for it by being absolutely horrible. I saw nothing that delighted me... although we ran onto the field pretty well".
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"Emotion is highly overrated in football. My wife Corcky is emotional as hell and can't play football worth a damn".
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"If you have everyone back from a team that lost ten games last year, I'd say experience isn't too important".
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On cutting kicker Bill Capece after he missed a field goal and extra point in a game- "Capece is kaput".
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On fan mail - "It was about three to one that I am not an SOB, but there were a lot of ones".
Best Quotes - Famous People
1.
When meeting someone's new girlfriend: "What team does she like - remember, never date within the division". - Rodger Howells
2.
Dennis Miller, comedian/broadcaster, during the Lions 0-16 season- "The Lions are so bad they might lose on their bye week".
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"Erma Bombeck, writer- "Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to make and are consumed in 12 minutes; halftime is 12 minutes, and that is no coincidence".
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Phylis Diller, comedian- "The reason why women don't play football is because you'd never get 11 of them to wear the same outfit in public".
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Craig Ferguson- "I like football. I find it an interesting strategic game. It's a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving".
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Laura Halse-Anderson- "The same boys who got detention in middle school for beating the crap out of people are now being rewarded for it. They call it football".
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"Ian Rapaport, Boston Globe- "Christian Ponders draft stock has soared. I know I said 'first rounder' earlier today, but I was talking about his girlfriend".
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"Al Michaels/Bob Trumphy, NBC, on Leon Lett's Super Bowl XXVII fumble at the one yard line - Michaels: "Leon Lett is now looking for a hole to hide in". Trumphy: "Well he'd better dig a big hole".