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Best sports movies quotes

TheLoveOfSports.com ranks the top 15 best movie quotes.

13. Major League (1989) – (13a) – Willie: “Willie Mays Hayes here. I hit like Mayes, and I run like Hayes.” – Coach: “You may run like Hayes, but you hit like shit.” – (13b) – “Juuuuust a bit outside.” – (13c) – “Up your butt, Jobu.”

6. Bull Durham (1988) – (6a) “I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents on Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.” – (6b) – “Relax, all right? Don’t try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring. Besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some groundballs. It’s more democratic.”

1. Caddyshack (1980) – (1a) – “I hear this place is restricted, Wang, so don’t tell ‘em you’re Jewish, OK? All right.” – (1b) – “You’ll get nothing and like it.” – (1c) – “This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ahhh, Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent and Northern California Sensemilia. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff. Here, I’ve got pounds of this.” – (1d) – “This crowd has gone deathly silent, the Cinderella story, outta nowhere, a former greenskeeper, now – about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mira….. It’s in the hole!”

Not that I have a problem with the lines they chose, but they went a little too mainstream in my opinion. For example, these lines in Major League were funnier to me than the ones they chose:

Harris: “You trying to tell me Jesus Christ can’t hit a curve ball?”

Lou Brown: “Nice catch Hayes – don’t ever fucking do it again.”

Taylor: “Who’s that guy she’s with?”
Vaughn: “You want me to drag him outta here – kick the shit out of him?”

Mariotti calls out Tiger

Chicago Sun Times columnist and everyone’s favorite bigmouth Jay Mariotti called out Tiger Woods for not backing up his words at this year’s Masters, won by Trevor Immelman on Sunday.

In one disjointed sense, this truly was a piece of history we should tell the grandkids about. Never before has Tiger Woods been so fantastically presumptuous — and so gloriously wrong. Without prompting from any source but his own inner voices, he had the temerity to suggest that a calendar-year Grand Slam was “easily within reason” for him.

While we applaud him for manufacturing drama that otherwise wouldn’t have existed in April, do note that unkept promises usually aren’t part of a sports legend’s resume. What does it say when Plaxico Burress nails a Super Bowl prediction but the extraordinary Woods, never known for outlandish boasts of any sort, instantly blows the forecast and loses the Masters by three strokes to the worthy but previously obscure Trevor Immelman?

It tells us that Tiger, who made the comments on his personal Web site as the season began, might want to withhold such bold opinions if he can’t take the heat. As dusk fell over Augusta National, he clearly wasn’t happy that his self-fueled Slam talk had become such a hot-button topic — and a major letdown Sunday. What, when Eldrick Woods interjects “Grand Slam” into the discussion, people aren’t going to listen and react? Um, aren’t we talking about the world’s biggest sportsman, the first billion-dollar athlete?

Tiger can’t take the heat? After one bold comment on his personal website that wasn’t even that bad to begin with? Stop stirring the pot Mariotti – Tiger has nothing to prove and he’s always been a class act. And the comparison to Plaxico Burress was a reach to say the least.

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Kige, live on location…sort of.

I know The Masters started yesterday, but once I saw that Kige Ramsey of “YouTube Sports” was live on location (okay, so actually it looks like he just went down to the local 9-hole), I had to post this video:

“They’re good golfers and you need to watch out for them.” I freaking love it.

Is anyone else reminded of George Dubya whenever Kige gives his updates?

Poulter thinks he can challenge King Tiger

British golfer Ian Poulter told the United Kingdom’s version of Golf World magazine that he’s the only other golfer that could challenge Tiger Woods.

The flamboyant Englishman, currently ranked No 22 in the world claims that he is the only golfer who has the ability to catch the 13-time major winner. “I just don’t rate anyone else,” Poulter said. “Don’t get me wrong, I respect everyone who is a professional. But the problem is I know I haven’t played to my full potential. And when that happens it will just be me and Tiger.”

I love the, “if I play up to my full potential” line. Yeah, if you played up to your full potential, you might be able to beat Tiger. If everyone could play up to their full potential, everyone would pretty good. Great. Well you know what, Ian? Tiger does play up to his full potential and he takes other golfers like you to the woodshed. That’s why he’s Tiger Woods and you’re Ian Poulter…the 22nd rated golfer in the world.

Jim Brown calls out Tiger

Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown said on ESPN’s “First Take” that Tiger Woods should have spoken out when Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman recently said other golfers should, “Lynch (Woods) in a back alley,” in order to beat him on the links.

Is anyone really surprised that Tiger is just trying to let the whole incident pass? I’m not saying it’s right or wrong that he hasn’t said more publicly, but he’s always been a politically correct speaker and I’m not surprised that he took that road again in this situation.

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