Sports Quotes of the Year: 2013

Quote of the Year: “This is our [expletive] city, and nobody is going to dictate our freedom. Stay strong.”

-Boston Red Sox player David Ortiz after the terror attack on the Boston Marathon

Slam of the Year: “Proud of my husband and the Pats. By the way, if anyone is bored, please go to Ray Lewis’ Wikipedia page. 6 kids 4 wives. Acquitted for murder. Paid a family off. Yay. What a hall of fame player! A true role model!”

-ANNA BURNS WELKER

“This will be my last ride.”

-Ray Lewis announcing his retirement

"If you had to pick between the two, that would be a tough choice, but five beats one every time I look at it."

-Michael Jordan on the question of LeBron vs Kobe

 “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.”

-JASON COLLINS

"I don’t usually worry about someone’s personal hygiene."

 -Jim Leyland

"I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance."

-PETE ROSE

"Bud Selig is trying to alter his legacy from the commissioner who tacitly condoned steroids to the one who tried to stamp them out."

-Bob Wojonowski Detroit News

"The only thing the HOF will let me in for is to use the restroom."

-Todd Jones

"He [Jay Z] got him a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation -- and it’s called October."

-Pete Rose on Robinson Cano

 

Quotes of the Month: September 2013

Quote of the Month: "I'll tell you the difference with Green Eggs and Ham is when Americans tried it, they discovered they did not like green eggs and ham and they did not like Obamacare either. They did not like Obamacare in a box with a fox, in a house or with a mouse."

-Senator Ted Cruz

Stupid Quote of the Month: “She is older than her chronological age” she was ”as much in control of the situation.”

-Judge G. Todd Baugh on a 14-year-old rape victim

And the Rest…

"I would think the mayor of a city that recently experienced a deadly bombing attack would be more sensitive and not use the phrase 'blow up.'"

-Mayor Bing about the Mayor of Boston's comments about Detroit

"Some people could find a flaw in Bo Derek,”

-Jim Leyland on Max Scherzer’s idiotic critics

"And as RKK would say, if you're a turd, it's going to come back to you."

-Tom Brady on Johnny Manziel

"Let Allah sort it out."

-Sarah Palin on Syria

"Kerry can be forgiven for being at odds with the president. The president, in the space of his 16-minute address, was often at odds with himself... Nuance can sound a lot like a muddle."

-Dana Milbank

"This has been one of the most humiliating episodes in presidential history.”

-Anonymous Democratic Strategist on Obama’s Syria policy.

"If you don't comply, it is treason."

-Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer

“They see it as an act of provocative weakness on America's part.”

-Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham on Obama’s Syria deal

"It is extremely unrealistic, to presume that the peaceful nature of the nuclear program of Iran could be ensured through impeding the program via illegitimate pressures.”

-Iranian President Hassan Rowhani

“It’s on the president’s head, he’s got to lead, he’s got to talk.”

-Bob Woodward on the debt ceiling and failure of the CR

Quotes of the Month: June 2013

Quote of the Month: "It's like shearing a piglet: a lot of squealing and little wool."

-Vladimir Putin on Edward Snowden

Stupid Quote of the Month: "Alex should just shut the (expletive) up."

-Brian Cashman to Alex Rodriguez

And the rest…

"I've heard more from Bush, asking for my advice, than I've heard from Obama," Klein stated from various sources close to the Obama administration. "I have no relationship with the president -- none whatsoever. Obama doesn't know how to be president. He doesn't know how the world works. He's incompetent. He's an amateur!"

-Bill Clinton

Seizing phone records of millions of innocent people is excessive and un-American.”

-Representative Jim Sensenbrenner, Republican of Wisconsin and author of the Patriot Act

“Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?”

-Al Gore

“I’m uhhh….people….oh goodness….uhhhh...folks are sweating back there right now.”

-Barack Obama when his staff forgot his speech

“I didn’t want to be pope.”

-Pope Francis I

“I will be made to suffer.”

-Edward Snowden: Self-identified NSA surveillance program leaker.

"I don’t usually worry about someone’s personal hygiene."

 -Jim Leyland

"I just blasted away."

-72-year-old Jan Cooper after shooting at an intruder at 12:30 A.M.

"If you refuse to act and you cause a calamity, the one thing you cannot say when all the eggs have been broken is, 'Oh my god, two years ago there was a poll that said 80 percent of you were against it, you look like a total fool."

-Bill Clinton on Obama’s handling of Syria

"So long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not truly safe."

-Barack Obama

“The IRS has ruled Obama can write off the first half of his second term as a total loss.”

-Jay Leno

"American popular music is our only art form. It's our most important export, period. And since time began, it's been handled not as an art form but as a commodity.”

-Huey Lewis.

 “I’m not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker”

-Barack Obama

Sports Quotes of the Year: 2012

Quote of the Year:

“I personally think he's an idiot."

-Red Wing Ian White on Gary Bettman

Dumb Quote of the Year:

"Is he a brother or a cornball brother?  We all know he has a white fiancée. There was all this talk about he's a Republican, which, there's no information at all. I'm just trying to dig deeper as to why he has an issue. Because we did find out with Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods was like, I've got black skin, but don't call me black. So people got to wondering about Tiger Woods early on."

-Rob Parker

And the rest…

“My husband can not throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time.”

-Gisele

“And Randy, not like any other superstar I've met, he has more quit in him than any of those other players.

-Cris Carter on Randy Moss

"(One fan) actually called me a racial slur to begin the game with. He was the only one I had a problem with. People in Boston don't even do that."

-Carl Crawford

"I remember when I went to the ownership meetings in Colorado in August, and I was walking back from dinner with Tony La Russa (retired Cardinals manager) and we're talking about statistics and about WAR. And, no offense to the player, but when I woke up that morning they had on the (ESPN.com) site that Darwin Barney that day was ranked ahead of Miguel Cabrera in WAR. And I don't mean anything against Darwin Barney, but there wasn't a person in Major League Baseball who on that particular day would have traded Miguel Cabrera for Darwin Barney. So, when people say WAR is all-encompassing, that loses the argument to me right there."

-Tigers GM Dave Dombrowski

"We are not prepared to open another season until we have a new collective bargaining agreement,"

- NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman signaling the start of another player lockout.

"No curfew. I live in the basement. I got everything I need. Home cooking … it's awesome."

-Mike Trout on living at home

"I'm ready to go. I'm Applebee's out."

-Jim Leyland on the end of Spring Training

"I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs."

-Vin Scully

"Some of them are zombielike. Some honestly have an empty-corpse quality."

Washington State football coach Mike Leach describing his seniors after a 2-4 start

"People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory."

-Pele

Sports Quotes of the Year: 2011

No order...

“We got disrespected so our gangsters went out and zipped them up.”

-A Xavier Basketball player after a brawl with Cincinnati

“But I think it does show courage from the kids, standing out and doing that, and some boldness.’’

-Tim Tebow on protests over the suspension of two students for “Tebowing.”

"I love that Jeanie Buss' boy toy had something to say about us. I don't know if it was his thought or Jeanie's thought, but it's nice to know that she lets him speak in public about other teams."

-Mark Cuban

“Crazy. Karma is a b—-.. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on anybody. God sees everything!”

-LeBron James after the Cavs 55 point loss to the Lakers

“LeBron James: How is that karma thing working out?”

-The Cleveland Plain Dealer after James got injured

“I take my hat off to myself.”

-Carmelo Anthony

“I’m just hopeful the coach doesn’t dismiss me.”

-OSU President E. Gordon Gee

“That’s the world of prostitution. You never know what you’re going to get.”

-Lawrence Taylor

“Take the vehicle. I have 10 more.”

-Allen Iverson after the police pulled his Lamborghini over.

"We want to make sure that he's really retired first."

- Packers on waiting to retire Bret Favre's #4.

"Buster is laying in front of home plate, and it's like having a disabled car in the middle of a four-lane highway. You're just going to get smacked."

Johnny Bench on the Buster Posey collision

"I ask guys all the time: Guys with blue eyes, brown eyes, whatever ... and guys with blue eyes have a tough time [during the day]."

-Josh Hamilton

"Money is cool and all but I'm only 23, I have a lot of time to make that."

-Christian Lopez after catching Derek Jeter’s 3000^th hit

“We don’t pay him to run. We pay him to trot.”

-Jim Leyland on Miguel Cabrera

“Stats are for losers and rings are for champions.”

-Darren McCarty

“National League pitchers are stupid.”

-Mitch Williams on why they pitch to Ryan Howard

“Kobe, five championships; LeBron, zero.”

-Magic Johnson

"If we were trying to run a regular offense, he'd be screwed."

-Broncos coach John Fox on Tim Tebow

“When I’ll consider myself a dirty player is when my mom tells me.”

-Ndamukong Suh

Quotes of the Month: August 2011

Quote of the Month:
"This economic mandate represents a wholly novel and potentially unbounded assertion of congressional authority: the ability to compel Americans to purchase an expensive health insurance product they have elected not to buy, and to make them re-purchase that insurance product every month for their entire lives."

-11^th Circuit Court on Obamacare’s Individual Mandate
Dumb Quote of the Month:
"Now I don't even want to have to be associated with [Obama], it's like touching a tar baby and you're stuck, you're part of the problem now. You can't get away."

-Congressman Doug Lamborn on Barack Obama

Meltdown of the Month:
“It's no longer acceptable in mixed company -- meaning bipartisan company -- to use the goddamn word 'climate.' And some of the exact same people — I can go down a list of their names — are involved in this. And so what do they do? They pay pseudo-scientists to pretend to be scientists to put out the message: ‘This climate thing, it’s nonsense. Man-made CO2 doesn’t trap heat. It may be volcanoes.’ Bullshit! ‘It may be sun spots.’ Bullshit! ‘It’s not getting warmer.’ Bullshit!

-Al Gore
Slam of the Month:

“Socrates taught that wisdom begins in the recognition of how little we know. Mr. Obama is perpetually intent on telling us how much he knows. Aristotle wrote that the type of intelligence most needed in politics is prudence, which in turn requires experience. Mr. Obama came to office with no experience. Plutarch warned that flattery "makes itself an obstacle and pestilence to great houses and great affairs." Today's White House, more so than any in memory, is stuffed with flatterers.”

“Stupid is as stupid does, said the great philosopher Forrest Gump. The presidency of Barack Obama is a case study in stupid does.”

-Bret Stephens WSJ
And the rest….
"They have acted like terrorists."

-Joe Biden on the Tea Party

　
"Heck, Sean, if we were real domestic terrorists, shoot, President Obama would be wanting to pal around with us, wouldn’t he? I mean he didn’t have a problem paling around with Bill Ayers back in the day when he kicked off his political career in Bill Ayers' apartment.”

-Sarah Palin
“Is it idiocy or optimism that enables smokers to play the lottery without ever acknowledging the irony?”

-Simon Pegg

"Well, I guess he not only likes Canadian health care, but he likes Canadian RV's." --

-Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock

"We kept trying to milk outs and almost ran out of milk."

-Jim Leyland
"POTUS has played more golf this month than I have: I have created more jobs this month than he has.”

-Professional Golfer Paul Azinger
“It's deeply bizarre and deeply creepy.”

-State Department Victoria Nuland on Moammar Gadhafi’s obsession with Condi Rice
“Get the Hell off the beach.”

-Chris Christie to idiots refusing to evacuate for Hurricane Irene
“When I’ll consider myself a dirty player is when my mom tells me.”

-Ndamukong Suh

　

Quotes of the Month: July 2011

Quote of the Month:

“Daniel Craig’s my Wookie bitch now!”

-Harrison Ford to Chewbacca

Dumb Quote of the Month:

“FDR comes in, he tries all these things with the New Deal; but FDR, contrary to myth, was pretty fiscally conservative.”

-Barack Obama

Best on-air exchange:

“Do you have a degree in economics?”

-Contessa Brewer to Congressman Mo Brooks

“Yes mam, I do. Highest honors.”

-Mo Brooks to Contessa Brewer

Best Slam:

"So was Nicole Brown when your dad got OJ off.”

@HaHaWhitePPL (on Twitter responding to Kim Kardashian’s tweet “Casey Anthony not guilty! I’m Speechless.”)
　

And the rest…
“No Balls. No Justice.”

- A sign protesting the Anthony verdict

"Well, I'll be back in about 16 years."

-Al Michaels

"Money is cool and all but I'm only 23, I have a lot of time to make that."

-Christian Lopez after catching Derek Jeter’s 3000^th hit

"As far as I'm concerned, Betty Ford saved my life."

-Stevie Nicks

“It’s hard to know whether these pundits understand how stupid and childish their rants are, or whether they’re so blinded by their ideology they don’t understand it’s not really appropriate to refer to people with whom you disagree on taxes as Wahhabis, suicide bombers and members of a death cult.”

-Peter Wehner on partisans comparing Republicans to terrorists

“We don’t pay him to run. We pay him to trot.”

-Jim Leyland on Miguel Cabrera

“Stats are for losers and rings are for champions.”

-Darren McCarty

“This would be easier if I could do this on my own.”

-Barack Obama wishing he were dictator?

“This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell into GOP Senate nominees. The reality is that the debt limit will be raised one way or another, and the only issue now is with how much fiscal reform and what political fallout.”

-John McCain

“National League pitchers are stupid.”

-Mitch Williams on why they pitch to Ryan Howard