First of all, I would to thank the many, many fans throughout this country that wrote cards and letters to Dusty Rhodes, The American Dream, while I was down. Secondly, I want to thank Jim Crockett promotions for waitin’ and takin’ the time ‘cause I know how important it was, Starrcade ‘85 it is to the wrestling fans, it is to Jim Crockett promotions, and Dusty Rhodes The American Dream. With that wait, I got what I wanted, Ric Flair the World’s Heavyweight Champion. I don’t have to say a whole lot more about the way I feel about Ric Flair; no respect, no honor. There is no honor amongst thieves in the first place.
He put hard times on Dusty Rhodes and his family. You don’t know what hard times are daddy. Hard times are when the textile workers around this country are out of work, they got 4 or 5 kids and can’t pay their wages, can’t buy their food. Hard times are when the auto workers are out of work and they tell ‘em go home. And hard times are when a man has worked at a job for thirty years, thirty years, and they give him a watch, kick him in the butt and say “hey a computer took your place, daddy”, that’s hard times! That’s hard times! And Ric Flair you put hard times on this country by takin’ Dusty Rhodes out, that’s hard times. And we all had hard times together, and I admit, I don’t look like the athlete of the day supposed to look. My belly’s just a lil’ big, my heiny’s a lil’ big, but brother, I am bad. And they know I’m bad.
There were two bad people… One was John Wayne and he’s dead brother, and the other’s right here. Nature Boy Ric Flair, the World’s Heavyweight title belongs to these people. I’mma reach out right now, I want you at home to know my hand is touchin’ your hand for the gathering of the biggest body of people in this country, in this universe, all over the world now, reachin’ out because the love that was given me and this time I will repay you now. Because I will be the next World’s Heavyweight Champion on this hard time blues. Dusty Rhodes tour, ‘85.
And Ric Flair, Nature Boy… Let me leave you with this. One way to hurt Ric Flair, is to take what he cherishes more than anything in the world and that’s the World’s Heavyweight title. I’m gon’ take it, I been there twice. This time when I take it daddy, I’m gon’ take it for you. Let’s gather for it. Don’t let me down now, ‘cause I came back for you, for that man upstairs that died 10-12 years ago and never got the opportunity to see a real World’s Champion. And I’m proud of you, thank god I have you, and I love you. I love you!
CM Punk: 'I'm just a spoke on the wheel, and the wheel's going to keep turning', WWE promo - 2011
27 June 2011, WWE Raw, Las Vegas, Nevada
John Cena, while you lay there, hopefully as uncomfortable as you possibly can be, I want you to listen to me. I want you to digest this, because before I leave in three weeks with your WWE Championship, I have a lot of things I wanna get off my chest. I don't hate you, John. I don't even dislike you. I like you a hell of a lot more than I like most people in the back. I hate this idea that you're the best - because you're not. I'm the best. I'm the best in the world. There's one thing you're better at than I am and that's kissing Vince McMahon's ass. You're as good at kissing Vince's ass as Hulk Hogan was. I don't know if you're as good as Dwayne. He's a pretty good ass-kisser. Always was and still is. Oops - I'm breaking the fourth wall. [He waves at the camera] I am the best wrestler in the world. I've been the best ever since Day One when I walked into this company. And I've been vilified and hated since that day because Paul Heyman saw something in me that nobody else wanted to admit. That's right, I'm a Paul Heyman guy. You know who else was a Paul Heyman guy? Brock Lesnar. And he split, just like I'm splittin', but the biggest difference between me and Brock is that I'm going to leave with the WWE Championship. I've grabbed so many of Vincent K. McMahon's imaginary brass rings that it's finally dawned on me that they're just that. They're completely imaginary. The only thing that's real is me. And the fact that day in and day out, for almost six years, I've proved to everybody in the world that I am the best on this microphone, in that ring and even on commentary. Nobody can touch me. And yet, no matter how many times I prove it, I'm not on your lovely little collectors' cups, I'm not on the cover of the program, I'm barely promoted, I don't get to be in movies, I'm not on any crappy show on the USA Network, I'm not on the poster of WrestleMania, I'm not on the signature that's produced at the start of the show. I'm not on Conan O'Brien, I'm not on Jimmy Fallon, but the fact of the matter is I should be. And trust me, this isn't sour grapes, but the fact that "Dwayne" is in the main event of WrestleMania next year and I'm not, makes me sick! Oh hey, let me get something straight. Those of you who are cheering me right now - you are just as big a part of me leaving as anyone else, because you're the ones sipping out of those collector cups right now, you're the ones that buy those programs that my face isn't on the cover of, and then at five in the morning at the airport, you try to shove it in my face thinking you can get an autograph and sell it on eBay, because you're too lazy to get a real job. I'm leaving with the WWE championship on July 17 and hell, who knows, maybe I'll go defend it in New Japan Pro Wrestling. Maybe I'll go back to Ring of Honor. [Punk beckons again into the camera] Hey, Colt Cabana, how you doing? The reason I'm leaving is you people because after I'm gone you're still going to pour money into this company - I'm just a spoke on the wheel - the wheel's gonna keep turning. And I understand that Vince McMahon's gonna make money despite himself. He's a millionaire who should be a billionaire. You know why he's not a billionaire? It's because he surrounds himself with glad-handing nonsensical douche bag yes-men like John Laurinaitis, who's gonna tell him everything he wants to hear. And I'd like to think that maybe this company will be better after Vince McMahon is dead, but the fact is, it's gonna get taken over by his idiotic daughter and his doofus son-in-law and the rest of his stupid family. Let me tell you a personal story about Vince McMahon. You know we do this whole bully campaign- [the microphone is turned off, Punk knocks a few times on top of it and then calls without micro] I've been silenced!
Wayne Gretzky: 'Am I hot, yeah I'm hot', Olympic Games presser - 2002
18 February 2002, Utah, USA
I don't think we dislike those other countries as much as they hate us. They don't like us, they want to see us fail, they love beating us. They may tell you something different, but when you're on the ice, that's what they say. They don't like us.
We gotta get that same feeling towards them.
I mean right now it's comical listening to things that are being said. It almost sickens my stomach to turn the TV on because I'm such a proud Canadian and such a fan of our game and very proud of all the guys in the locker room, and it makes me ill to hear some of the things that are being said about us.
Well, it's just not very good.
And what's really annoying to me, in the seventies we went through this whole thing about hooliganism and all that sort of stuff. If we would've did what they did tonight, it would have been a big story. I think the guy should be suspended for the rest of the tournament.
If it was a Canadian player that did it it would be a big story. But a Czech player did it, it's okay.
Yeah I just don't understand it.
You guys saw it. If I'm wrong, I'd apologise. But one of the things we've gotta eliminate out of our game is that kind of stuff, and if a Canadian did it, it would be big news.
But a Czech does it, and it's okay.
And I don't understand it. There was a spear, and a cross check in the same play ... I don't get it.
There should have been four or five penalties, blatant penalties, an should have been two or three suspensions. Am I hot? Yeah I'm hot. Because I'm tired of people taking shots at Canadian hockey.
When we do it, we're hooligans. But when Europeans do it, that's okay because they're not tough or they're not dirty,. That's a crock of crap.
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John Still: 'Youy aint playin' with no heart', Dagenham & Redbridge FC documentary - 1993
1993-4, Dagenham, United Kingdom
Neil Warnock: 'Any injuries?', half time rant, Huddersfield v Shrewsbury Town - 1995
22 April 1995, New Meadow, Shrewsbury Town, United Kingdom
Any injuries? How can there be any fucking injuries, silly question, hey?
look at me while I'm talking.
The second goal! The fucking first goal. You [expletive] are {expletive] as soft as shit!
You're letting him fucking back into you all fucking day, you!
You're all having a laugh ere!
We're third in the fucking league and we've got 2000 fans, and they're getting pissed on, and we haven';t got as much passion.
Simon, let's have someone who'll put his fucking head in. You go on boys runs for the throws.
Second ball, you got in every time.
Now listen we're going to change 4:3;3
Oh jesus, how many times have we heard I know I know I know, we don't want you to know.. We want us to fucking [inaudible] out there!
Don't try and do everything. Just into the box, back, fucking tackling.
Tackling now.
Listen, we aint got where we are, mid table, by not playing as a team. We weren't a team then were we. Now we've got forty five minutes, I'm not worrying about the result, we've lost the game as far I'm concerned, I'm worried about Neil Warnock's side out there, 2000 fans out there, one goal and they will panic. Now everyone concentrate ... don't be soft as shit, and let's [expletive] [inaudible]
John Sitton: 'And if you come back at me, we’ll have a f*cking right sort out in here', half time v Blackpool - 1995
7 February 1995, Brisbane Road Stadium, East London, United Kingdom
Sitten's Leyton Orient 1-0 down at half-time against Sam Allardyce’s Blackpool in February '95 and exasperated with his team, Sitton sacked defender Terry Howard before offering to fight two of his players, Barry Lakin and Mark Warren. Tirade appeared in documentary, 'Orient: Yours for a Fiver'. Language warning.
I spoke to you the other day about a new contract. About the possibility of a new contract. And all I’m saying is, when it pops out, you’ve got to be crafty, you’ve got to drift off. And when it pops out, you’ve got to establish possession ... for a red shirt.
And all I’m saying to you is get your body ... you is lucky that you go the free kick.
Now don’t be coming back at me, when I’m shouting at ya, above the crowd and above the [inaudible]
Because I’ll run this fucking football club until I’m told otherwise by the fucking circus upstairs. If you come back at me, you’ll be off the field, and you’ll be following Terry down the rope.
You come and see me because you’ve already got a fortnight’s notice, because that performance is the straw that broke the camel’s back! And that will not be tolerated in this dressing room ... while I’m charge, with Chris Turner.
That is the fucking straw that broke the camel’s back, that is typical fucking Leyton Orient,
You sit, ‘you fucking too intense, nobody can talk to you, you’re this your that’. I never fucking followed two good games up with a fucking game like that. The reason I was fucking intense was that I wanted to play well again.
But I’m wasting me breath on some of ya. I’m wasting me breath on some of ya.
What did I say to ya, about good players, they want to be good players all the time? Don’t you know how profound that is, are you’re not examining the fucking words.
Because you’ve had two good performances and you think I’m ‘Bertie Big Bollocks tonight, I’ll fucking play how I like.’
But you won’t play how you like, because if you play how you like, I’ll fucking stick the youth team in. If I’m going to take abuse from a bunch of cockroaches behind me, I’ll take abuse by doing it my way.
And that is fucking conformity, not fucking non conformity.
So you, you little c*** when I tell you to do something and you, you fucking big c*** - when I tell you to do something, do it. And if you come back at me, we’ll have a fucking right sort out in here.
‘And you can pair up if you like. And you can fucking pick someone else to help you, and you can bring your fucking dinner. Because, by the time I’m finished with you, you’ll fucking need it. Do you fucking hear what I’m saying or not?'
[To Terry Howard] You see me in the morning.
Geoff Lemon: 'Hey Shane Watson, let's go over the rules of the DRS', Lord's rant - 2013
19 July 2013, Lord's, London, UK
This video was produced as part of a 2013 Ashes tour diary writer Geoff Lemon was doing for The Roar.
Hey Shane Watson, let’s go over the rules of the DRS.
If you get given out, and you think you’re not out, you can review it, and then maybe you won’t be out.
If you’re not out, you keep the review.
If you are out, you lose the review.
That means, it’s good to be right. You may choose to remember this with the acronym, IGTBR, or the useful pneumonic, I Grow Tomatoes Bro, Respect!
The thing is, you’ve got two reviews, and eleven batsman.
Mathematically that works out to LESS THAN ONE REVIEW PER BATSMAN.
The conclusion on that, you should base your reviews on evidence, not just preferring not to be out.
Let’s just have a look at the DRS analysis of your reviews, Shane.
GRAPHIC - DECISION: Terrible, WICKET: Early; IMPACT: Negligible; BITCHING; Outside off
See any problems here?
Hey Shane Watson! Let me pitch you a hypothetical. Let’s say you’ve got a batsman who gets nailed LBW every innings, and then has a review on a 50-50 call, in hope, and then he’s always out, and then his opening partner gets a really terrible call, but he’s not game to use a review, because he’s not a selfish dickhead, so then he’s out, so then you’ve got two batsman out, and one review wasted, and the rest of the team goes down for 100 in the rest of the day, and Chris Rogers was going to get a century, we could see it in his eyes, and what do you think about that, Shane?
Here‘s a question for you: Shane was inducted into the Hall of Fame on this ground today. What do you think he would have done? Do you think you’re worthy to share the eight letters you have in common with his name?
You know when’s a good time to use DRS? When you get out, but you KNOW that you’re not out!
Then, you’re probably going to end up not out.
You know when’s a bad time to use DRS?
When you’re out, BUT YOU JUST KINDA WISH THAT YOU WEREN’T!
Stop acting like it’s beach cricket Shane!
Stop acting like it’s a centre wicket practice session for your benefit!
Stop acting like ... Shane Watson!