"The greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment," said Lu Fei, the 53-year-old shop manager of a picture frame shop across the street from the National Art Museum of China. (commenting on Liu Xiang's exit).
a modern day Confucius.
"The greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment," said Lu Fei, the 53-year-old shop manager of a picture frame shop across the street from the National Art Museum of China. (commenting on Liu Xiang's exit).
a modern day Confucius.
Walter Dix after the 100m when asked about Usain Bolt:
"the guy can run"
Understatement of the year.
The announcers at the velodrome talking about the young US rider Phinney. They were going over his parents history as gold medal cyclists. They proceded to say something to the effect of "He has a background of world class RACISTS." I'm hoping they meant racers.
I've seen a little too much Michael Phelps this past week, but with Morgan Freeman saying it:
One gold medal is amazing.
Two is, well, incredible.
Three?
Practically unbelievable... but eight? Eight gold medals? That's... That's well... Well we're going to need some new adjectives for whatever that is...
Congratulations Michael.
gay divers wrote:
After an interview with one of the gay divers in the pair competition
Man voice " why do they take showers after each dive?"
nacy grace sounding lady "well because the water is cold so it keeps there muscles warm so it feels good. (pause) and because its really exciting"
True, that diving announcer is a dead ringer for Nancy Grace--sounds just like her and is almost as snotty. When a diver splashed too much, she said "look out--tidal wave!"
tyler christopher almost dropping an f-bomb in his post-heat interview
lagat not realizing that there were no time qualifiers and saying how he was not worried, and confident he would make finals
During the womens marathon one anouncer referring to some shoving as the Brits would say
"a little argee bargee"
DUI
i know this is olympic quotes but the funniest post race quote i've ever read was from "THe perfect distance" by Pat Butcher where he stated that steve ovett was aproached post race by a reporter.
reporter: steve have you anything to say?
Ovette: yeah! Happy Christmass...
..... it was the middle of August.
I agree, Walter Dix was hilarious.
IDK wrote:
Walter Dix after the 100m when asked about Usain Bolt:
"the guy can run"
Understatement of the year.
Yeah,
I loved that comment to.
Lebron James asking President Bush about his father - "How's your pops?"
Not the Olympics either, but the following exchange occurred after my son finished 2nd at the State Meet:
Local Reporter: "How was your race?"
My Son: "It was bad."
Reporter: "Why was it bad?"
My son: "I lost."
We looked and looked, but that quote didn't make the paper.
Worst Olympic Moment: Kastor saying, "I felt something pop in my foot."
there was two timed qualifiers.
why do you think he missed it by 2 hundreths of a second, the person in his heat was a quarter of a second in head.
lol
idiot
Carol Lewis last night during the women's 100m hurdles when one girl fell on the first hurdle: "Well, the key to the women's hurdles is making it over the first one."
She really is the John Madden of track and field.
I liked carol's comment about if (I am sorry I don't remember the names of the runners)...runner b in heat 2 runs as well as runner A in heat one she will advance to the next round.
Carol Lewis also referred to something happening "lasterday". Not the best by any stretch but still funny enough to make me laugh.
Toboggan wrote:
The announcing in New Zealand is pretty smartass. I love it. Memorable lines from the 10k:
(after about 4k when the race was at a pretty slow pace): "I guess all 20 or so runners in the lead pack think they have the world's best kick."
"I believe Kenya's leading export is distance runners to other countries."
(commenting on the large field): "It would've been quicker to introduce the crowd to the field than the field to the crowd."
"This pace is very choppy and ragged...reminiscent of the standard of driving here in Beijing."
Draft the guy for NBC!
that is phenomenal. bravo, carol. Bravo.
Ato also said something in the 100m semi's when Bolt ran 9.85: not an exact quote, but was to the effect of, "my pride is a little hurt, my PR is 9.86 and he just jogged my PR"
I also enjoyed the "video game time" remark. You may remember that Ato did some motion capture for an olympics track & field game several years ago, maybe that's where he got the idea for this catch-phrase and was saving it up for the exact right moment.