Gee, how about.... "His head's in the game!" (the rest is somewhere else apparently) 'Left it all on the field" (I presume they're not talking about just the head!) Anything either Tim McCarver or John Madden says... Examples: "If he had made better contact with the ball, it might have been a hit!" "Now, you see the ball on the ground there, that's an incomplete pass!" Now, who can argue with that dead-on, hard-hitting color analysis? "White Men Can't Jump!" (whoops...I'm sorry that's just a bad movie!)
In this age of email I haven't heard of anyone "Sending a Message"anymore. Messages were always important information. Such as "They are here to play." "They are not going to be intimidated."Being there to "play" doesn't sound too "intimidating" anyway. Maybe, that's why we don't see as a entire "Message Game" anymore. We do still sometimes hear that they are going to "Play em Hard"which is to disturbing of a visual for me to watch.
I personally love what Denny Green said earlier this year: "The Bears are who we thought they were!" I don't know if that is construed as trite, but man it was funny. Remove the word Bears, and you can apply it to anything.
I vote to add everything Madden says to the list. "That guy ran well because he kept his legs moving."
I'm not sure how many people here play the Madden football games, but there is one thing that he says that really bothers me. 90% of the game is half mental. Huh?
Does he really say that? Because it might just be a tongue-in-cheek homage to Yogi Berra.
Ninety percent of this game is mental, and the other half is physical. * A variant of this:"Ninety percent of this game is half mental" is also attributed to Philadelphia Philles manager Danny Ozark
Does he really say that? Yeah. It gets on my nerves every time.
"It is what it is.....and I y'am what i y'am"......Popeye.
my least favorite (though it is good advice): "You need to stay within yourself."
