Sports quotes of the year: 2014

Quote of the Year: "I played my last game at shortstop."


-Derek Jeter

And the rest...

"I'm the best corner in the game! When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that's the result you're going to get. Don't you ever talk about me. Don't you open your mouth about the best, or I'll shut it for you real quick."


-Richard Sherman

"The word ‘embarrassing’ is an insulting word, to tell you the truth."


-Peyton Manning after being asked if he was embarrassed by the Broncos performance in the Superbowl

"Anytime you play your profession and you end up hung — not by the neck, but by the rafters — it’s a great honor."

-Ted Lindsay

"It's as though they've raped college basketball in my opinion."




-Bob Knight on one and dones
"Con man. He has a way of tricking people, and he tricked a lot of people."


-Adrian Dantley on Isiah Thomas

"This is the coward's way out, in my opinion."


-Owner of California Chrome on his competition not running in the Kentucky Derby

Quotes of the Month: March 2014

Pretentious quote of the month: "We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and co-parent, we will be able to continue in the same manner."


-Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin

Stupid Quote of the Month: "Maybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority, the Republicans, my chairman and others, for giving us an opportunity to have a deliberative constitutional discussion that reinforces the sanctity of this nation and how well it is that we have lasted some 400 years, operating under a Constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not."

-Sheila Jackson Lee
 And the rest...

"Putin's playing chess, we're playing marbles."

-Congressman Mike Rogers
"When Aretha first told us what R-S-P-E-C-T meant to her, she had no idea it would become a rallying cry for African Americans, and women, and then everyone who felt marginalized because of what they looked like or who they loved."
-Barack Obama


"Anytime you play your profession and you end up hung — not by the neck, but by the rafters — it’s a great honor."

-Ted Lindsay


"I don’t want to be lectured by a traitor who speaks from a land that doesn’t have a constitution, or had one and it was entirely eviscerated by a thug who has just invaded another land."

– Charles Krauthammer



"All right, good night."


-Last words from the missing Malaysian airliner


"Our Western partners headed by the United States prefer not to be guided by international law in their practical policies, but by the rule of the gun. They have come to believe in their exceptionalism and their sense of being the chosen ones. That they can decide the destinies of the world, that it is only them who can be right."


-Vladimir Putin
"It's as though they've raped college basketball in my opinion."
-Bob Knight on one and dones