And I Quote: January 16, 2007

George: Izzy?
Izzy: What.
George: I just dropped 8.7 million dollars on the floor.
Izzy: And?
George: I shouldn't be able to drop 8.7 million dollars on the floor.
(one of my favorite exchanges in last week's Grey's. ok, so maybe you had to be there.)

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"Good teams ride the talent of a superstar. Great teams find a way to fight through adversity and win playoff games."
(Surviving Grady, who also said "It's called winning, LT, maybe someday you'll know what it feels like in the playoffs." -- which i thought was a bit harsh, but i will still sheepishly admit that it made me laugh.)

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[in regard to the Chargers being the better team on paper]
Yeah, so what, the Egyptians were better on papyrus, but how did that turn out for the Pharaoh?
(Foxboro Nation -- who ended with something i don't feel safe saying myself, but again, still made me laugh: "Peyton, we're baaaaaaaaaaaack!")

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Thing one: If you don't want a sack or touchdown dance mocked, don't create one to begin with. Thing two: perhaps you shouldn't talk mountains of s*** BEFORE the game (and also probably you shouldn't take steroids but hey, who cares about that, right?). And thing three: Next time, win, and you won't have these problems.
(Basegirl -- who also has one of the funniest things i have ever read about Terry Francona in the same blog post: "Marianne kept going, "Because you know he thinks that Tito is totally paying for that World Series with his life, slowly, and eventually, he'll be just a head in a jar, sitting on the bench and yelling at Manny to keep the fingerpaints in the clubhouse."")

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So let's get this straight: LaDainian Tomlinson is pissed off and offended because the Patriots acted like . . . the Chargers? That moron Merriman's ridiculous dance: acceptable form of celebration. Mocking it after he talked smack all week and didn't back it up: unacceptable form of celebration. Hmmm, interesting way of looking at it. I'm sorry to say this because he's just about the best running back I've ever seen, but in Sunday's postgame, L.T. put the "ass" in "class."
(Touching All the Bases)

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The playoffs, for the truly insane sports fan, are not "fun." The playoffs, rather, are a time for hyperventilating into paper bags, clutching at one's jersey, biting one's nails, swearing loudly, IMing "[mother of all expletives here]" to people, and worrying. Lots of worrying.
(Cursed to First -- whose post, "Victorious" captured *exactly* how i feel as a Patriots fan)

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“Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” (Franklin P. Jones)

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"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." (Helen Keller)

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"I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that." (Brian Andreas)

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"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country." (Anais Nin)

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"Passion is a contact sport." (Janet Carlson Freed)

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"It's not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." (Agnes Repplier)