CLIP REEL: SPORTS QUOTABLES

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If not for last-second casting decisions, she would have been in A League of their Own and he in Hoosiers.

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We'll admit it: we're addicted, at some small level, to Entertainment Weekly. Their online concepts are awesome for browsing: 'The 50 Best Summer Songs of All-Time' and 'The 15 Best Emmy Moments Ever' amuse us for, well, a few minutes at a time. Today they have a new one: '24 Endlessly Quotable TV Quips.' We went through it, agreed with most of 'em and decided we needed to archive a ton of sports quotes as well. (This is a good place to start.) It's not quite "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!" but this Clip Reel should leave you amused and emotional.

The Gehrig speech.
Pete Rose and Jim Gray.
"And with the No. 3 pick in the 1984 NBA Draft, the Chicago Bulls select..."
Valvano at the ESPY Awards.
Favre's retirement speech.
"Peace by Inches"
Hoosiers
"With the first pick in the 1997 NBA Draft, the San Antonio Spurs select..."
Knute Rocke speech.
Anything John Wooden says is pretty cool.
Agassi inducts Steffi Graf into the Tennis HOF.
Joe Paterno enters the College Football HOF.
Michael Irvin's Hall of Fame speech. Emotional.
Jim Kelly's HOF speech.
Cuba Gooding Jr. after winning his Oscar for Jerry Maguire.
A good summary of quotes from sports movies.
A good list of motivational sports quotes from pro athletes.
Michael Jordan on failure.
Not about sports but could be: the "I Have a Dream" speech.
Ogden's retirement speech was actually fairly emotive.
Elway's too.
Brian Leetch saying goodbye was huge for NY.
Bourque's emotional about getting that first Cup.
Garnett with Michelle Tafoya a few weeks back.
Pat Croce giving a motivational speech. Odd.
One list of the best coaches in history. All these dudes know how to speak words of import.
Might as well include a Lou Holtz pep talk in here.
For people that don't like him (we do): Belichick after losing the Super Bowl.
Friday Night Lights halftime speech.
Jordan's first retirement speech.
Maybe the most emotional Jordan speech of 'em all.

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