Friday, October 12, 2007

Insightful Athlete Quotation: Kevin Smith

No, not that Kevin Smith; the one who plays running back for UCF. This one isn't insightful so much as it is refreshing. I think we're all sick of athletes playing the no-respect card, as it's not only cliche but also relentlessly tiresome to hear highly successful people earning millions a year whine about how people don't love them enough. Here, a man who has not yet been allowed to earn money for his abilities (thanks to government-sanctioned collusion) offers this obvious but still gratifying observation concerning all the schools that didn't recruit him (despite the fact that he's now leading the nation in rushing yards):

"I don't think I run with a chip," Smith said. "I don't hold anything against those colleges. This is a business. Everybody recruits who they want. I run to represent my school."

2 comments:

Drew said...

Wow 14 posts in just over a week! you are prolific!

Unknown said...

to counteract all that you're planning to do with this topic, here's a particularly comprehensive list of the dumbest sports quotes ever.

http://community.comcast.net/comcastportal/blog/article?message.uid=797059

and yes, i'm checking your blog from a portland coffeehouse.