Iconic Boston Sports Quotes

ifmanis5

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Was having a discussion about this and I think the answer is...

"This is our fucking city" - David Ortiz

Others that came up are below. Has to be an actual quote from a player or coach on a Boston/New England sports franchise when they said it. What can be added to this list? I think Ortiz wins this.

"Moses does eat shit!" - Larry Bird
"Wake up the Bambino and have him face me. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass" - Pedro Martinez
"Don't let us win today" - Kevin Millar
"Have another donut, you fat pig!" - Jim Schoenfeld (this was my second choice and the first one I thought of)
"Larry Bird is not walking through that door, fans" - Rick Pitino
"The sun will rise, the sun will set and I'll have lunch" - Lou Gorman
"If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some groceries" - Bill Parcells
 
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"It is what it is." - Bill Belichick

I think that's the winner. It's a nonsensical statement that is so ingrained in our vocabulary that it's not even attributed to him anymore (and maybe it shouldn't be).
 
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Leaving in a bit to the studio :)
Two parter:

"What am I supposed to do? Win, or please the local yokels??" - Arnold

"Just win...." - Mr Brown

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"Where's my Dad??!!?" - Jim Craig


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(paraphrase) "I'm a tall white guy with an Irish last name. Of course the Celtics were gonna pay me what I wanted" - Kevin McHale
 
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"Anything is possible!"

Technically quote is "Anything is possible. Anything is possibllllllllllllllllle!

-Kevin Garnett
 
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Not a quote exactly but one of the most underrated moments in Boston sports history is Wayne Embry scribbling down "Celtic Pride" on he locker room blackboard when the Celtics were down 3-1 to Philly in the ECF, with the C's rallying back to take the series and defeat LA in the finals.
 
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"My name is Shaquille O'Neal and Paul Pierce is the motherf*cking truth. "
 
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"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer." Ted Williams
 
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"Because there are no fours."- Antoine Walker

"The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex"- Carl Everett
 
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"I just tip my hat and call the Yankees my daddy."

"I caught the attention of 60,000 people, plus the whole world watching a guy that if you reverse time back 15 years ago, I was sitting under a mango tree without 50 cents to pay for a bus.”
 
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"We play. That's what we do. We don't talk. We play. You come to Foxborough, it's gonna be snowing. It's gonna be cold. C'mon in here. You wanna say all you want? You wanna change the rules? Change 'em! We still play. And we win. That's what we do." - Tedy Bruschi
 
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Speaking of Schilling, "Why Not Us?" didn't suck.

ifmanis5 said:
"Moses does it shit!" - Larry Bird
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And as a point of order, it was "Moses does EAT shit."

And let's not forget the classic A-Rod salute during the 2004 ring ceremony:

Just as the moment for Radatz was about to end, someone in the crowd boomed out, "A-Rod, you suck!" Castiglione promptly followed with a terse, "Thank you." One could only imagine the monstrous Radatz filling the ballpark with his deep, baritone laughs.
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http://archive.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/04/12/ceremony_had_the_right_ring/?page=full

Speaking of fan quotes, the "good job, good effort" is always fun:

 
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Do tattoos count? I think the "Stanley Cup Champians" one a bunch of the 2011 B's got was hilarious.
 
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“Larry Bird is not walking through that door, fans. Kevin McHale is not walking through that door, and Robert Parish is not walking through that door"

"The Red Sox and our fans were fortunate to see Roger Clemens play in his prime and we had hoped to keep him in Boston during the twilight of his career."
 
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TheoShmeo said:
Speaking of Schilling, "Why Not Us?" didn't suck.



And as a point of order, it was "Moses does EAT shit."

And let's not forget the classic A-Rod salute during the 2004 ring ceremony:



http://archive.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/04/12/ceremony_had_the_right_ring/?page=full

Speaking of fan quotes, the "good job, good effort" is always fun:

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I just found this out last week, but the Orlando Magic of 94-95 actually coined the phrase "Why Not Us", and by the looks of the 30 for 30, it got pretty popular in the Florida area.
 
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"DAAAA-RYL. DAAAA-RYL. DAAAA-RYL" -- Fenway Park fans.
"They treated him worse than Hitler" -- Debbie Clemens
"The New England Patriots AND Tom Brady select Joe Thuney, Linebacker, North Carolina State" -- Kevin Faulk
"Ouch" -- Jacoby Ellsbury
 
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"Today, we are all Patriots."
I hate that one but it is what it is.

One of my favorites came via Billy Cunningham who said he asked Red Auerbach why he drafted Bird in 1978 when he wasn't going to sign him until 1979.
Red said "Do you know how short a time one year is?"

"I resign as HC of the NYJ"
 
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