Dumb Sports Quotes

  • Pat Glenn – Weightlifting Commentator, “This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning and it was amazing.”
  • Ted Walsh – Horse Racing Commentator: “This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.”
  • Murray Walker, “The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.”
  • Greg Norman, “I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.”
  • Alan Minter, “Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing – but none of them serious.”
  • Terry Venables, “If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again”
  • Ron Atkinson, “He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn’t like it – you can see it all over their faces.”
  • Harry Carpenter – BBC TV Boat Race 1977, “Ah, isn’t that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.”
  • Metro Radio, “Julian Dicks is everywhere. It’s like they’ve got eleven Dicks on the field.”
  • David Coleman at the Montreal Olympics: “There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.”
  • US TV Commentator, “One of the reasons Arnie [Arnold Palmer] is playing so well is that, before each tee-shot, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them, oh my God, what have I just said?”