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."

2.

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.."

3. 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."

4. Torrin

Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach, John Jenkins:
"He

treat us like mens. He let us wear earrings.."

5. Football

commentator and former player Joe Theismann:
"Nobody in football should be

called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

6. 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)

7.

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."

8. 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 .."

9. Stu Grimson, Chicago

Blackhawks 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."

10. Lou Duva, veteran boxing trainer, on the Spartan

training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota:
"He's a guy who gets up at

six o'clock in the morning, regardless of what time it is."

11. 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)

12. Frank Layden , Utah Jazz president,

on a former player:
"I asked him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it

ignorance or apathy?'
He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't

care.'"

13. 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."

14.

In the words of NC State great Charles Shackelford:
"I can go to my left

or right, I am amphibious."

15. Former Houston Oilers coach Bum

Phillips when asked by Bob Costas why he takes his wife on all the road

trips,
Phillips responded: "Because she's too ugly to kiss

good-bye."