They Said It

? Abe Lemons , after being fired last week as the University of Texas basketball coach by the school's athletic director, DeLoss Dodds : "I looked around the room and nobody else was there, so he had to be talking to me."

? Ed Lynch , New York Met pitcher and a former basketball player at the University of South Carolina , addressing teammates as he stood motionless in the clubhouse: "I'm demonstrating the North Carolina offense."