Athletes Say the Dumbest Things

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"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body."

-Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
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"Half this game is ninety percent mental."

-Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark
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"That was just instinct. Kind of like running from the cops."

-Virginia senior tailback Marquis Weeks after his 100 yard kick-off return led to a touchdown.
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"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

-Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst
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People Say the Dumbest Things

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?

Answer: "I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever."

-Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest.
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"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."

-Mariah Carey, pop music singer
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"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."

-Brooke Shields, actress, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign.
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"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"

-Lee Iacocca
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"We don't necessarily discriminate. We simply exclude certain types of people."

-Colonel Gerald Wellman, ROTC Instructor
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"Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas."

-Keppel Enderbery
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"Your food stamps will be stopped effective March 1992 because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."

-Department of Social Services, Greenville, South Carolina
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"If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they go to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record."

-Mark S. Fowler, FCC Chairman
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Politicians Say the Dumbest Things

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"Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country."

-Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC.
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"I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."

-Hillary Clinton, wife of President Bill Clinton, commenting on the release of subpoenaed documents.
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"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it."

-A congressional candidate in Texas
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"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."

-Al Gore, Vice President
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"It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another."

-George Bush, President
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"I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."

-Dan Quayle, Vice President
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"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version."

-Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony.
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"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."

-Bill Clinton, President
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"We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur."

-Al Gore, Vice President
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