Sports Greatest Sledges & Comments

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  1. COULDHAVEBEEN

    COULDHAVEBEEN Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Casey Stoner's crack at Valentino Rossi just latest in list of world's greatest sports sledges

    by Josh Barnet - FOX Sports - 5th April 2011


    Casey Stoner made headlines around the world with his sledge on fellow MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi.

    In the spirit of Stoner - who told Rossi
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    after the Italian slammed into the Australian at the Spanish Moto Grand Prix - we’ve compiled a list of the best words between competitors across the sporting world.

    Some intimidate, some are tongue in cheek. But they all show that sport is as much mental as it is physical.


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    legend Muhammad Ali, arguably the greatest sledger of all time, before one of his famous bouts:
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    New South Wales
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    forward Paul Gallen said before a State of Origin match that he hated Queensland
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    The Maroons' response?
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    legend Shane Warne was slammed when the words
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    aired about Queensland fast bowler Scott Muller during coverage of a Test in 1999. But cameraman Joe Previtera came forward, and said he was the one who made the comment.


    Warne's Australia teammates specialised in
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    but occasionally their opponents got the upper hand in the battle of the banter. Glenn McGrath once said to Eddo Brandes "Oi, Brandes, why are you so fat?", to which the Zimbabwean replied
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    Brandes 1 McGrath 0.

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    driver Mark Webber wasn’t a fan of Sebastian Vettel even before they became teammates. Vettel, then a Torro Rosso driver, slammed into the Australian’s Red Bull Racing car while Webber was leading behind the safety car at the 2007 Japanese Grand Prix, prompting Webber to say on live international TV:
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    Another bit of bitterness in F1 saw former Finnish driver Mika Hakkinen saying what he thought of Brit Nigel Mansell in 1995:
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    Richard Krajicek, the 1996 Wimbledon champion, claimed he was wrong to say
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    It’s not just competitors who get in on the trash talk. American boxing columnist Blackie Sherrod once said one heavyweight boxing contender
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    Willie Pep, an American featherweight boxer, came up with a heavy-hitting response when asked by a former opponent if he recognised him.
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    George Gregan, one of Australia’s greatest
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    players, drew the ire of New Zealand when he teased the All Blacks in the dying stages of their 2003 Rugby World Cup semi-final.
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    he said to the New Zealanders - who still haven't won the trophy since 1987.

    In basketball, no man has ever mouthed off as good as former Phoenix Suns, Houston Rockets and
    Philadelphia 76ers forward Charles Barkley. This one, he laid on 300-pound Rockets teammate Stanley Roberts:
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    No one is quite sure what Italy
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    defender Marco Materazzi actually said to Zinedine Zidane during the 2006 FIFA World Cup final, but the insult riled the France star so much that he headbutted the Italian in the chest and was sent off. Italy went on to beat 10-man France to become world champions.

    And Muhammad Ali deserves further mention, as we could do an entire list just on him - so good was the Louisville Lip. To American Floyd Patterson:
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    And to his nemesis:
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  2. Francis75

    Francis75 FAB 4 Full Member

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    Don't think so. How many world titles has Rossi won. 9 i think. He's talented all right. Try again Casey.
     
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  3. COULDHAVEBEEN

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    That was the thing with Ali. Sure he had a mouth, but he could deliver.
     
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    Rossi is a brilliant rider, but I always thought right from his early days that he can be sloppy and even a little dirty.

    Some say you have to be like that, yet Doohan managed to be just as brilliant and always had good manners on track.
     
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  5. Francis75

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    Yeah if ya talk you have to back it up and Ali certainly could. Can David Haye this year ?:huh
     
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    No doubting Rossi's ability, but did you see what he did?
     
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  7. COULDHAVEBEEN

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    I hope he can - only time will tell.
     
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  8. darkhorse

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    :yep...a few good ones there...
     
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  9. Francis75

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    Yeah he made a ridiculous move.
     
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    Steve waugh: Hits ball to herchelle gibb

    gibbs : Gibbs drops a sitter of a catch

    steve wauch: You just dropped the world cup
     
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  11. COULDHAVEBEEN

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    One of my favourites, and not listed in the article is Ali's:

    'If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize'.
     
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    In my eyes sledging is when you get personal with the oppositions family, wife, their weight, colour, heritage etc etc.

    That one from Steve Waugh is boring and overplayed.

    Casey Stoner looked like a schoolboy when delivering his spray, it actually didn't even look like he was angry, more scripted than anything........ probably by one of his team. Anyway Rossi has won 9 titles, it really didn't work :patsch.

    I liked the one against Mark Waugh :lol:

    Mark Waugh standing at second slip, the new player (Adam Parore) comes to the crease playing & missing the first ball. Mark "Ohh, I remember you from a couple years ago in Australia. You were **** then, you're ****ing useless now". Parore- (Turning around) "Yeah, that's me & when I was there you were going out with that old, ugly slut and now I hear you've married her. You dumb ****".
     
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  13. perko

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    yep thats the only way to shut the sledgers up , bring theirr wives , kids and mums into it , usually ends it right then . if not a invitation to the sledger to meet one on one behind the grandstand after the game is enough . the problem is these days is any weak ******* thinks he can say whatever he likes on the paddock and thinks there wont be any physical retaliation.
     
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  14. COULDHAVEBEEN

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    Parore's was a beauty mate.

    But Steve Waugh's, in the context of it being made at a crucial stage in a crucial world cup match, is not overrated in my opinion Kel.
     
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  15. ipswich express

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    Steve Waugh himself has said he never said it...
     
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