Quotes about kangaroos (9 Quotes)




    The Kangaroos have put an offer on the table for him, which we don't think is enough to suggest to trade him at this stage. With Fremantle, we don't have an offer on the table at this stage but they have expressed their interest in him and Melbourne has expressed interest as well, but again no offer has been put on the table.

    I've worked with dogs before and they'll sit and they'll roll over. With kangaroos, you say Sit and they start boxing with you. They're nuts

    Yes you heard correctly. As a matter of fact, the first time I was on TNT and I did the poem... I was in a suit of armor. ... Vince McMahon said, in the commercial he said, 'Lanny that was great, I want you to do that before every match, I want you to do a poem.' I thought to myself, well okay, that's a little tough on a babyface... so I thought to myself, Al Costello used to throw those boomerangs (with The Fabulous Kangaroos) ... and I know that, my brother and I used to gouge each other's eyes trying to get those things, you know Whenever you get free stuff... so I started out throwing these little rolled-up scrolls but they weren't really flying. So I said, I've gotta throw a frisbee. So I bought 500 frisbees and I wrote a poem on them. And then the marketing people from World Wrestling Federation said, 'Do you mind if we market these' Do I mind if you market these I said I was dying to get my feet wet in that. So they sold them at 3 apiece, they sold several hundred thousand of them. And the reason they sold so many is because I was the only wrestler, win, lose or draw, that would, after the match was over, go to the venues, meet the people, be nice to the people, whether they bought frisbees or not.



    We don't have a blueprint that we roll out each time we play them, ... Each time we play them, we're getting more and more of an idea. But in nine years, we haven't shown that we're successful at (beating the Kangaroos) whereas we have a 50-50 record or better with every other club.


    Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still are no domestic kangaroos.



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