Here are some quotes from athletes and coaches that might have been better left unsaid:<\/p>\n
* New Orleans Saint running back George Rogers when asked about the upcoming season: “I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first.” Here are some quotes from athletes and coaches that might have been better left unsaid: * New Orleans Saint running back George Rogers when asked about the upcoming season: “I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first.”* Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann: “Nobody in football should be called a genius. A … Continue reading “Don’t Talk; Just Play”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
* Football commentator and former player Joe Theismann: “Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy such as Norman Einstein.”
* Bill Peterson, one-time Florida State football coach: “You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle.” Also: “You guys line up alphabetically by height.”
* Boxing promoter Dan Duva on Mike Tyson hooking up again with promoter Don: “Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for
three years, not Princeton.”
* Shaquille O’Neal on whether he had visited the Parthenon during his visit to Greece: “I can’t really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.”
* Chuck Nevitt, North Carolina State basketball player, explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice (1982): “My sister’s expecting a baby, and I don’t know if I’m going to be an uncle or an aunt.”
* Steve Spurrier, then Florida’s football coach, telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn’s football dorm had destroyed 20 books (1991): “But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn’t been colored yet.”
* Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins (1991): “He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings.”
* Shelby Metcalf, basketball coach at Texas A&M, recounting what he told a player who received four Fs and one D (1987): “Son, looks to me like you’re spending too much time on one subject.”
* Frank Layden, Utah Jazz president, on a former player (1991): “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.’” (from The Daily Dilly<\/em>)<\/p>\n