Coaches' corner.New York Jets [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PETER GAMMONS, in his ESPN.com baseball column: "So who puts the bug in candidates' ears about seeming what they are not? John Kerry last week professed to be a big fan of 'Manny Ortez,' then re-emphasized the phoofery by correcting it to 'David Ortez.' No, that was Dave (Baby) Cortez and 'The Happy Organ.' A few years back Kerry went on a Boston station with Eddie Andelman and said 'my favorite Red Sox player of all time is The Walking Man, Eddie Yost,' who never played for the Red Sox. Kerry is going to sweep New England. He's going to get 70 percent of the vote in Massachusetts. He doesn't have to be a Red Sox fan, all he has to do is not be John Ashcroft." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DOROTHY SHULA, on the career dedication of her husband, Don Shula, the Hall of Fame Miami Dolphins' coach: "I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral." Texas coaching legend DARRELL ROYAL: "On game day, I am more nervous than a pig in a packing plant packing plant a complete meat production unit including facilities for slaughtering animals, processing of meat and offal, boning out, making up of blocks of carcasses, chilling, freezing, storing of the meat, preparation of by-products. ." Former Dallas Cowboys linebacker D.D. LEWIS: "Franco Harris faked me out so bad that I got a 15-yard penalty for grabbing my own face mask Face mask The simplest way of delivering a high level of oxygen to patients with ARDS or other low-oxygen conditions. Mentioned in: Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome ." JOHN SHUMATE, Southeast Missouri State basketball coach, on his weak team: "It was so bad that the players were giving each other high fives when they hit the rim." LOU HOLTZ, on security: "On this team, we are all united in a common goal--to keep my job." Former Los Angeles Dodgers "Dodgers" and "Brooklyn Dodgers" redirect here. For the American football team, see Brooklyn Dodgers (football). For the Eastern Basketball Association team, see Brooklyn Dodgers (basketball). outfielder PEDRO GUERRERO on sportswriters: "Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean." NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga Films president STEVE SABOL on Dick Butkus, the fearsome Chicago Bears linebacker: "He was like Moby Dick in a fish bowl." The late irrepressible ABE LEMONS on press brochures: "Just once, I'd like to see a picture of one of these guys with the caption, 'He's a dog' underneath it. 'Ate up $8,000 worth of groceries in four years and can't play worth a lick.'" JEFF KEMP, former 49ers quarter-back, when asked about his rapport with wide receiver Jerry Rice: "Rapport? You mean like, 'You run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can'?" The late Michigan State coach DUFFY DAUGHERTY: "When you are playing for a national championship, it is not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that." More DAUGHERTY: "I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades." New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. columnist TIM SMITH, on the Greek men's basketball team's defensive philosophy against the U.S. Dream Team in the Athens' Olympic Games: "Basically Greece was going to let the U.S. shoot its way out of the game. The chances of that happening were higher than those Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid had against the Bolivian Army." JIM FINKS, the late New Orleans Saints MIKE NEWLIN, a guard for the Houston Rockets in the 1970s, after a game his team lost to the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Nets: "We were the quintessence quin·tes·sence n. 1. The pure, highly concentrated essence of a thing. 2. The purest or most typical instance: the quintessence of evil. 3. of athletic atrocity." Race car legend MARIO ANDRETTI: "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." |
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