Fw: Why professional athletes can't have regular jobs.

Brain versus brawn! Some great 1 liners in here…..

 

Why professional 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 'Skin's  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 ugly to kiss  good-bye."