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Subject: Why 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."

  1. 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."

  2. 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."

  1. Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins: "He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."

  2. Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann: "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

  1. 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)

  2. 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."

  1. 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."

  2. Stu Grimson, Chicago Black Hawks 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."

  1. Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan training regime of heavyweight Andrew Golota: "He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning, regardless of what time it is."

  2. 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)

  1. Frank Layden , Utah Jazz president, on a former player: "I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'"

  2. 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."

  1. In the words of NC State great Charles Shackelford: "I can go to my left or right, I am amphibious."

  2. 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 damn ugly to kiss good-bye."
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Lizzy Taylor
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omg...thanks, Lizzy! i had to fwd to my dad. LMAO i loved #11 amy in CNY

Reply to
amy in CNY

Had to forward them to my wife. I heard nothing but laughter for the next 5 minutes.

John

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John

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I wonder if Aussie footballers are any smarter... I doubt it. They get up to an awful lot of trouble off field. The trouble as I see it, is they don't have real jobs in real life, too much time on their hands.....

Cheers Bronnie

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Bronnie

I feel your pain. We are under an almost insurmountable deficit in school financing this year in my state. A suggestion to our local school board that we dismantle the sports programs and put the money into academics where it belongs has been received with panic and mayhem. You'd have thought that there had been a suggestion to skin and boil puppies in the cafeteria.

Cindy > is there any other country in the world where more emphasis is put on sports than grades?

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teleflora

School boards are notorious for ignoring suggestions, even simple practical ones that impact no one and save money. Logn story short, I once showed the school district how to save over $18,000 in one year, which would have restored 1/3 of the funding for a program on the chopping block at our school. I suggested mailing the paychecks to each school, in bulk rate mailers, instead of individually to our homes. I explained that a simple data file for mailing labels could be run, sort paychecks by school, stuff and send. The response that I got from the superintendant was that he didn't know how that could be done. I politely, but pointedly, said that if my 9th grades students could create such a data file in my class that adults in his office could do so as well.

I don't dispute that sports are important in many ways, from team building to building respect for authority, etc., but when a decision needs to be made, academics put food on the table, clothes on the body and a roof over the head. Choices. Tough, but choices.

Cindy, I hear you on the budget front. This year is not going to be pretty for us either, in spite of the high oil prices. Add in contract negotiations for both classified and certified and it looks even worse. I once had a budget for computers and supplies of $12,800. That is now $3,850, and that is up from $2,200 two years ago. Something needs to be done and I think that it is going to be painful for everyone.

Steven Alaska

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Steven Cook

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