Thread: The best quotes ever

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to take us to the bank.

Don King

Don Cherry Canadian Hockey Commentator re : Tortue of Terrorists

If hooking up one raghead terrorist prisoners testicles to a car battery
to get the truth out of the lying little camel shagger will save just one
canadian then i have only three things to say :

Red is positive
Black is negative
Make sure his nuts are wet

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. Mae West

With privilege goes responsibility.
E.B. Sledge
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

'its not the deed ,its not the thought,its not the crime....its if you get...caught'
Tower Of Power.

Life is NOT like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today could burn your ass tomorrow.....anon

several years ago I took a job with DEC (Digital Equipment Corp) and wanted to understand the rules of the company. Since my job was that of a manager I felt I should know the rules but no one could point me to the Operation Manuals. I found out that the reason no one knew about it was because of the founder and president, Ken Olson who operated the company with a simple statement.

"Do what's Right" and that is how we all operated.

Originally Posted by ThaiAm

several years ago I took a job with DEC (Digital Equipment Corp) and wanted to understand the rules of the company. Since my job was that of a manager I felt I should know the rules but no one could point me to the Operation Manuals. I found out that the reason no one knew about it was because of the founder and president, Ken Olson who operated the company with a simple statement.

"Do what's Right" and that is how we all operated.

Thats scary, some people would use that to their benefit. Opened ended if I might add.

In who's eyes?

Originally Posted by ThaiAm

"Do what's Right" and that is how we all operated.

If everyone operated that way then they'd still be in business.

Great quote from Dennis Thatcher, when asked who wore the trousers, he replied quick as a flash " well certainly not me, but I don't wash and iron them either"

"I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse."

Mark Twain

"If you don't know your rights, you don't have any. If you are not willing to stand up for your rights, it doesn't matter weather you know them."

-Michael Badnarik

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford.

"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money" - Margaret Thatcher

“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted” - David Bly

"Obama's base is walking human debris" -- Rush

If Shit Don't Stink Don't Stir It.

Muhammad Ali

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

^ Ali made some quite memorable quotes. One of my favourites:

I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
Muhammad Ali

^ imo He was the greatest boxer of all time and wasn't shy about expressing his views.

when he wouldn't join the army his quote was no vietnamese ever called me nigger.

We’ve got to keep this in perspective. If we removed everybody in seniority that committed adultery we probably wouldn’t have anybody running the country.

Geoff Hurst suggests that stripping John Terry of the England captaincy might have been over the top.

What I saw of the English against the USA had very little to do with football.
Franz Beckenbauer savages the England’s non- performance in South Africa.

FROM Wenger's whinges to Serena's shoutiness - here are the best quotes of 2009...

"I always hated tennis." Andre Agassi


"If I could, I would take this f***ing ball and shove it down your f***ing throat." Serena Williams to a scared-looking US Open line judge


"I can shake hands with who I want." Arsene Wenger on snubbing Mark Hughes after Arsenal's 3-0 Carling Cup defeat to Man City


"What shocks me most is that this player, at the end of the game, went to sit next to an Ireland player to comfort him - when he'd just screwed him. If I'd been an Irishman he wouldn't have lasted three seconds." Eric Cantona on Thierry Henry and the Hand of Frog

"They can suck it and carry on sucking it. This is for all Argentines... minus the journalists." Diego Maradona celebrates World Cup qualification by enhancing his relationship with the Press


"I'm happy to be the most expensive player in the world." Cristiano Ronaldo on his £80million move to Real Madrid

"It wasn't so much taming the Beast - more like playing with a tabby cat." David Haye on beating Nikolay Valuev


"On our first Valentine's Day, I made my wife watch the curling. 'Let's see one more rubber and we'll go out', I told her. It was the only rubber I got involved in that night, I can tell you." Robbie Savage on winter sports


"I love Blackpool. We're very similar. We both look better in the dark." Ian Holloway takes charge at Bloomfield Park

"I speak my mind and other chairmen should too. They can come and have lunch with me at Harrods, where I can serve them stags' testicles from my Scottish estate. We all need big balls in this business." Fulham owner Mohamed Fayed

"This club has got great ambition and I want to be part of it." Sol Campbell on signing a five-year deal with Notts County. He walked out after one game.

"I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions." Tiger Woods

"Do I wanna go to Hull City? NO. Do I wanna go to Stoke? NO. Do I wanna go to Sunderland? YES! So stop f***ing around, Levy." Darren Bent lets rip at the Spurs chairman on Twitter


"He was a lion of a man. No. Make that three lions." Gary Lineker's tribute to Sir Bobby Robson who died this year

Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.
Bill Shankly - English soccer manager.


The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.
Phil Woosnam - Welsh soccer player and manager.


I'm sure sex wouldn't be so rewarding as this World Cup. It's not that sex isn't good but the World Cup is every four years and sex is not.
Ronaldo - Brazilian soccer player, after winning 2002 World Cup.


All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.
— Mitchell Thomas, Former English football player


An inch or two either side of the post and that would have been a goal.
— Dave Bassett, English football manager


And that’s Aston Villa’s first league goal since their last one.
— Elton Welsby, British TV sports presenter


From that moment the pendulum went into reverse.
— Gerald Sinstadt, British sports commentator and broadcaster


Germany are a very difficult team to play… they have eleven internationals out there today.
— Steve Lomas, Former Northern Irish football player


He had an eternity to play that ball… but he took too long over it.
— Martin Tyler, English football commentator


He is a goal scorer, not a natural born one - not yet. That takes time.
— Glenn Hoddle, Former English football player and manager


I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.
— Barry Venison, Former English football player


I think football would become an even better game if someone could invent a ball that kicks back.
— Eric Morecambe, Deceased English comedian


I wouldn’t be bothered if we lost every game, as long as we won the league.
— Mark Viduka, English and Australian football player.

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