So what if we don't produce educated athletes

[Niner]

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 treat us like mens. He let 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. Ricky Henderson, Hall of Fame Baseball player, when asked what he thought about the fact that 50% of players are using some kind of performance enhancing substance. "Well, I don't, so that makes it 49%!"

Ah... but most of them earn more in a year than a rocket scientist. But now days most rocket scientists are out of work so I'd imagine that's not a fair comparison..

[DuncaninFrance]

Well that's 15 votes for euthanasia in my book

[Aughnanure]

Duncan,

I know wheer Asia is but I've never heard of Euth; by the way you outa get "Spelcheque'.

[Niner Delta]

I thought he was talking about young oriental people.............Youth in Asia.....

(His spelcheque is working fine..... )

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[DuncaninFrance]

From The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Eleventh edition)........

euthanasia
n noun the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable disease or in an irreversible coma.

ORIGIN
C17: from Greek, from eu 'well' + thanatos 'death'.

I think stupidity falls into the 'incurable' bit

[Niner Delta]

When I first saw the way you spelled it, it didn't look right to me, so I looked it up in
the online Merriam-Webster dictionary, sure enough, you were right. That's why I said your
"spelcheque" was working............


eu·tha·na·sia
noun \ˌyü-thə-ˈnā-zh(ē-)ə\

: the act or practice of killing someone who is very sick or injured in order to prevent any more suffering

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