{"id":20584,"date":"2013-06-21T22:44:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T20:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/ten-idiosyncratic-sports-quotes\/"},"modified":"2013-06-21T22:44:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T20:44:09","slug":"ten-idiosyncratic-sports-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/ten-idiosyncratic-sports-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten idiosyncratic sports quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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English: David Beckham plays a competitive match for Los Angeles Galaxy. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Friday and the weekend is upon us, so I have decided to post some light reading. Here are ten (often unintentionally) hilarious sport quotes compiled by David Macaray<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1. \u201cBesides the two fighters, the referee is the most important man in the ring.\u201d \u2013 George Foreman<\/p>\n

2. When UCLA was looking for a replacement for John Wooden, Joe B. Hall<\/a>, who\u2019d followed the legendary Adolph Rupp<\/a> as basketball coach at the University of Kentucky (and was heckled by fans, vilified in the media, and eventually driven out of the job), jokingly suggested that they hire him. \u201cWhy ruin two lives?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

3. \u201cThe last man to perform this well on grass was Jimi Hendrix.\u201d \u2013 Greg Cote of the Miami Herald, on Roger Federer<\/a>\u2018s Wimbledon success.<\/p>\n

4. \u201cWe\u2019re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.\u201d \u2013 NBA player Jason Kidd<\/p>\n

5. \u201cMy sister\u2019s expecting a baby, and I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m going to be an uncle or an aunt.\u201d \u2013 Chuck Nevitt<\/a>, North Carolina State basketball player<\/p>\n

6. \u201cThere are two theories on hitting the knuckle ball; unfortunately, neither one of them works.\u201d \u2013 Batting coach Charlie Lau<\/a><\/p>\n

7. \u201cPeople complain that pro athletes make a lot of money; but what they don\u2019t understand is that we need a lot of money because we spend a lot of money.\u201d \u2013 NBA player Patrick Ewing<\/p>\n

8. Responding to a reporter asking what kind of a pitch it was that had resulted in a prodigious home run, Red Sox pitcher Bill Lee said, \u201cIt was a combination screwball and change-up. I call it a screw-up.\u201d<\/p>\n

9. \u201cI owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.\u201d \u2013 golfer Greg Norman<\/p>\n

10. \u201cMy parents have been there for me, ever since I was about seven.\u201d \u2013 soccer great David Beckham<\/a><\/p>\n

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