Classic Quotes from the World of Sports

Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward on his operation: "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body."

Leon Wood, New Jersey Nets guard, to Steve Albert, Nets TV Commentator:
"Are you any relation to your brother Marv?"

Dizzy Dean explaining how he felt after being hit on the head by a ball in the 1934 World Series:
"The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing."

1996 Lou Duva, Veteran boxing trainer, on the spartan training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota:
"He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is."

1987 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."

1982 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."

1966 Darrell Royal, Texas football coach, asked if the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries this season resulted from poor physical conditioning:
"One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for football?"

1991 Steve Spurrier, Florida football coach, telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books:
"But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet."

1986 Jim Finks, New Orleans Saints G.M., when asked after a loss what he thought of the refs:
"I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating."

1991 Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons:
"It's basically the same, just darker."

1991 Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player:
"I told him, 'Son, what is it with you. Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care."

1991 Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins:
"He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."