The Year in Quotes

Written by Grubby | 29 December 2009

ESPN has released its annual "Quotes of the Year."  Here are my faves.  Yes, Ozzie Guillen makes a few appearances.

Full list here.

"It's not good when you light up two Marlboros at the same time at 3 a.m., washing it down with a glass of chocolate milk. You know you have a lot on your mind when you do that."
-- Tigers manager Jim Leyland

"One of our players 'broke wind' and only the referee heard it and he booked the player."
-- English soccer manager Ian Treadwell, explaining that one of his Chorlton Villa players received an "unsporting behaviour" yellow card for flatulence

"Because our fans are not stupid like Cubs fans. They know we're shit … Wrigley Field is just a bar."
-- White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, on why his team's fans won't come out to watch a bad product but Cubs fans will

"Before you say anything, just know I am the most powerful man in this building."
-- South Florida football coach Jim Leavitt

"It was 2½ hours of satisfaction and then 2½ hours of horseshit baseball. Go and ask them. I don't have any more quotes, seriously. What the fuck am I going to say? [Are] they horseshit? Yes, they are."
-- White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen

"Cheech and Chong would have had a hard time smoking that much."
-- Butler County (Ohio) judge Craig Hedric, on former NBA player Corie Blount claiming 29 pounds of marijuana were for personal use