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Why Athletes Can’t Have Regular Jobs:
 
1. Chicago Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson on being a role model:
“I wan’ all dem kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I wan’ all the kids to copulate me.”
 
2. New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers when asked about the upcoming season:
“I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first.”
 
3. And, upon hearing Joe Jacobi of the Skins say:
“I’d run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl,”
Matt Millen of the Raiders said: “To win, I’d run over Joe’s Mom, too.”
 
4. Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins:
 “He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings…”
 
5. Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann:
“Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.”
 
6. Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh :
 “I’m going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.”
(Now, that is beautiful!)
 
7. Bill Peterson, a Florida State football coach:
 “You guys line up alphabetically by height…” And, “You guys pair up in groups of three, and then line up in a circle.”
 
8. Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson going to prison:
 “Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton .”
 
9. Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker:
“That’s so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes.”
 
10. Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota:
“He’s a guy who gets up at six o’clock in the morning, regardless of what time it is.”
 
11. Chuck Nevitt , North Carolina State basketball player, explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice:
 “My sister’s expecting a baby, and I don’t know if I’m going to be an uncle or an aunt.”
(I wonder if his IQ ever hit room temperature in January)
 
12. Frank Layden , Utah Jazz president, on a former player:
 “I asked him, ‘Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?’
He said, ‘Coach, I don’t know and I don’t care.’”
 
13. Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M, recounting what he told a player who received four F’s and one D:
 “Son, looks to me like you’re spending too much time on one subject.”
 
14. In the words of NC State great Charles Shackelford:
“I can go to my left or right… I am amphibious.”
 
15. Amarillo High School and Oiler coach Bum Phillips when asked by Bob Costas why he takes his wife on all the road trips.
Phillips responded: “Because she is too damn ugly to kiss good-bye.”
 



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