Professional Athletes and Coaches are paid to be performers and to win games. Sometimes however, they are also very entertaining when it comes to the things that they say. At times they may be controversial, at times they may be funny, and other times they may be just simply quite strange. Can you identify each of these famous quotes with the athlete who said it? Let's find out!
"Practice? We talking about practice?"
"I guarantee we'll win tonight"
"Who's coming in 2nd?"
"Can't play with him, can't win with him, can't coach with him….can't do it!"
"It ain't over till it's over" and "It's like déjà vu all over again"
"To be the man, you got to beat the man"
"Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like NORMAN Einstein"
"I'm here so I won't get fined"
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing"
"I dunno. I never smoked any AstroTurf"
"I'm a light eater. As soon as it's light, I start eating"
"Playoffs? Playoffs? I just hope we can win a game"
"The Bears are who we thought they are. You want to crown their asses?"
"You play to win the game!"
"I'd be willing to bet you that I have never bet on baseball"
"It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up"
"We're going to win the game. I guarantee it"
"I've been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career"
"One's a born liar, the other's convicted!"
"Come after me. I'm a man. I'm 40!"
"All we hear about is their defence. They can't stop a nose bleed"
"Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row"
"I want to eat his children"
"I love me some me"
"I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed"
"How would you like a job where every time you make a mistake a red light goes on and 18 000 people boo?"
"I am not a role model"
What did Boston Celtic Antoine Walker say to the media when asked "Why did you keep shooting 3-pointers?"
"We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking"
