QUOTES OF THE YEAR
The day-to-day issues, as serious as they may be, they may come and go. But you cannot change the nature of the game. ... The reality is that this game destroys people’s brains.” Sports broadcaster Bob Costas on concussions and the future of football Sometimes you just don’t like a guy.” NASCAR driver Kyle Busch on his longrunning feud with Brad Keselowski It’s a good win. There’s a lot of people. It’s like Woodstock, except everybody’s got their clothes on.” Washington State football coach Mike Leach on his team’s victory against Southern California I hope to represent the people of the United States, not the president. ... I want to represent our country well. I don’t think that there are a lot of people currently in our government that do that.” Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn, to CNN about the 2018 Winter Games Maybe one of these days I won’t fail, we won’t fail and we’ll win one of these things. I think once the dust settles and we go home, we can realize that we had a pretty amazing season and we finished in second place, which nobody cares about or remembers.” Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, on the World Series loss I don’t know. There’s a lot of ghosts around here. Ghost put it in there. You know, the ghost of Christmas past?” Jets receiver Jeremy Kerley, on how a banned substance got into his body “This is not even a conspiracy. The Earth is flat. The Earth is flat. The Earth is flat.” Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving