“The American public has been led to believe that we went to bed that night after a wonderful Christmas, brutally beat JonBenet, sexually molested her, strangled her, went to sleep, got up the next morning, wrote a three-page ransom note, called the police, sat around the house for four hours, (and) then I went downstairs and discovered her body and was able to act distraught. Help me to understand that.”
–John Ramsey, whose 6-year-old daughter was murdered Dec. 26, 1996, on police suggestions that the parents may have committed the stil-unsolved crime.
“I don’t like to get booed, and the All-Star Game is not the time to get booed.”
–Seattle Mariners slugger Ken Griffey Jr., whose refusal to participate in the annual home run derby prompted boos when he took batting practice, causing him to change his mind and then win the contest.
“This is easier on the bulls than rodeo. Very simply, they’re let out of the truck to run a quarter-mile, and if they want to poke somebody along the way, they’re welcome to.”
–Promoter Phil Immordino, on animal-rights protests against a Nevada town’s plan to hold a Pamplona-style “running of the bulls” on July 11.
“People will come up to me and say that you’ve saved my life. That’s nice.”
–Peter Vegso, co-founder president of Health Communications, which has sold more than 30 million copies of “Chicken Soup for the Soul” and its sequels, on why he keeps working.
“To find a husband.”
–Katie Brown, host of the Lifetime network’s hit show on homemaking, “Next Door With Katie Brown,” when asked her ultimate goal.
“I would like to see her wearing more clothing.”
–Actor Robert Carradine, on his only reservation about daughter Ever’s regular role as a skimpily clad office assistant on NBC’s “Veronica Closet.”
