Another Great Radio Quote

[rosieb]

I just had to offer this one up.

Heard on a reasonably serious BBC (Radio 4, I think) programme "In an increasingly global world..."

Umm, just how much more global can the world get?

Rosie
"Don't try to improve one thing by 100%, try to improve 100 things by 1%

 

[chiph]

Darned Martians taking our jobs!
They took yeerrr jobbbs!

Chip H.


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[jebenson]

I haerd this in a broadcast of a college basketball game, after a player had spectacularly missed a shot:

"That shot would have been good, if it had gone in."



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[SantaMufasa]

Like John Madden's colour commentary in an American football game one time:

I'll tell you that the team that sticks with it to the end, out defences (sic) the opponent, and puts the most points on the board is gonna win this game.

Good, John...now that's insightful colour commentary.

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[RCorrigan]

[slightly off topic]
SantaMufasa for great sporting (mis)quotes do a google search for Colemanballs ......... for the uninitiated David Coleman was an english sports commentor with a knack of ballsing up his commentary (hence the name) ---- this trait was turned into a section of the great british magazine Private Eye

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[2ffat]

These sound like Yogi Berra-isms.

http://www.yogiberra.com/yogi-isms.html

;-)

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[KenCunningham]

Cricket is quite a rich source too: "The batsman's Holding, the bowler's Willey" being one from BBC commentary, followed by much sniggering and suppressed hilarity at this unintentional double-entendre.

 

[strongm]

My own favourite is "Well, it's easy to write history with hindsight

 

[johnherman]

Dumb sports quotes:

http://www.sportshollywood.com/dumbquotes.html

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[2ffat]

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