“Do we have the votes to pass it Tuesday? I don’t know. I hope we do, but I’m not sure” – Glendale City Council member Gary Sherwood, on a Jobing.com Arena lease deal with prospective Coyotes owners that could keep the team from relocating this offseason (ARIZONA REPUBLIC, 6/28).
“Some teams might be considered to be Florsheim shoes, and Real Madrid is Gucci. … Real Madrid is expected to draw a much larger crowd than we could hope to have with just about any other club that we could get” – St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission President Kitty Ratcliffe, on Edward Jones Dome hosting a Real Madrid-Inter Milan friendly in August (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 6/28).
“I’m not proud of everything that we’re doing in this industry, but we’re going to get it fixed one way or another” – Michigan State AD Mark Hollis, speaking at the AP Sports Editors convention in Detroit, on the current state of college athletics (DETROIT FREE PRESS, 6/28).
“I don’t feel like I’m carrying the U.S. flag, the lone guy left. I just happened to play the last match” – Tennis player Bobby Reynolds, who was the last American man left in Wimbledon until yesterday’s second-round loss to Novak Djokovic (FOXSPORTS.com, 6/27).
“She’s not a race-car driver. … The King (Richard Petty) always had that stupid saying, but is true, ‘Lots of drivers can drive fast, but very few drivers can race.’ Danica has been the perfect example of somebody who can qualify better than what she runs” – Former NASCAR driver Kyle Petty, on Danica Patrick (“Race Hub,” Speed, 6/27).
