”There`s nothing but getting your butt kicked or helping yourself.”-Boxing student Anthony Clay, 11, on what he believes are the available options for children growing up in Chicago`s public housing.
SHAWON DUNSTON ON NOT BEING PROTECTED BY THE CUBS IN NEXT WEEK`S EXPANSION DRAFT: ”I`m just a piece of meat that`s waiting to be eaten up.”
”No parking. Not 5 Minutes, not 30 Seconds, not at all.”
-New no-parking signs in Manhattan.
”He has a degree in psychology, and you always wonder how he plays with your mind.”
-Iowa Hawkeye Scott Davis, on football coach Hayden Fry.
”It makes baseball look silly.”
-Ex-baseball commissioner Fay Vincent on the reinstatement of Steve Howe, who had been suspended by Vincent for drug use.
”The Right is saying, `All we need are more prisons and police.` The Left says, `That is a stupid waste of money. What we really need is to abolish poverty and racial discrimination.` ”
-Mark H. Moore, a professor of criminal justice policy, on research into the roots of violence.
”What am I going to do with my people?”
-An angry Azo Culic, a Sarajevo Red Cross official who helped arrange convoys of refugees, only to have them stopped at the border betwen Bosnian- and Croatian-held territory.
”People are going to say, `This guy`s a faggot,` and steer clear of him.”
-former Navy man Jim Rice, predicting that Petty Officer Keith Meinhold, a homosexual who won readmittance, into the military will have a tough time.
”Pretty boy.”
-Mob figure Joseph P. Lombardo`s joking response when asked what the middle initial stood for.
”We`re thinking about sterilizing her husband, but that won`t be easy. You have to knock him out first.”
-Dick Dekker of the Amsterdam zoo, on how to solve the problem of a female hippo so protective of her young that she has sat on 10 of them, squashing them to death.
”We are all Jews.”
-Signs carried by non-Jews marching in cities throughout Italy, protesting a resurgence in anti-Semitism.
