"You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle"
Bill Peterson,
a Florida State football coach
"That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my
clothes."
Stu Grimson,
Chicago Blackhawks left wing, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker
"You guys line up alphabetically by height"
Bill Peterson,
a Florida State football coach
"I play football. I'm not trying to be a professor. The tests don't seem
to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven't been through
in school."
Clemson recruit
Ray Forsythe,
who was ineligible as a freshman because of academic requirements
"I know the Virginia players are smart because you need a 1500 SAT to get
in. I have to drop bread crumbs to get our players to and from class"
George Raveling,
Washington State basketball coach
"Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to
prison
for three years, not Princeton."
Boxing promoter
Dan Duva
on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don King
"I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to."
Shaquille O'Neal
on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece
"The ballparks have gotten too crowded. That's why nobody goes to see
the game anymore."
Yogi Berra
"I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes."
Senior basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh
"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like
Norman Einstein."
Football commentator and former player
Joe Theismann