Sports quotes 8/24/03

Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle: "(Ted) Williams' head reportedly has been moved among three different containers and is marked with a coded tag. As a guy who has had even good dry-cleaning shops lose a shirt, I hope John Henry Williams kept the claim check."

Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel: "Did you see where four Stanford football players were charged with furnishing alcohol to underage sorority pledges? That's not a crime; that's tradition."

Norman Chad, syndicated columnist: "A character in Shakespeare's Henry VI once said something about killing all the lawyers. But that was before SportsCenter anchors."

Mike Downey, Chicago Tribune, on the political upheaval out West: "California's big problems are a terrible power shortage and too many grossly overpaid workers in key positions. And that's just the Dodgers."