Subject: Sports (Page 101)

What you’ve got to remember about Michael is that under that cold professional Germanic exterior beats a heart of stone.

British auto racer

We were tipping off our plays; whenever we broke from the huddle, three backs were laughing and one was as pale as a ghost.

professional football executive

He's not twins.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

The Gullikson twins here; an interesting pair… both from Wisconsin.

Tennis commentator

(He) simply lost that sun-blown popup.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did, but it was Mrs. Koufax's.

professional baseball pitcher

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

(1917 – 1963) 35th U.S. president

Bob Gibson was so mean he would knock you down and then meet you at home plate to see if you wanted to make something of it.

(1942 – ) American baseball player

We have fifty-one golf courses in Palm Springs; he (Gerald Ford) never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

Put an ordinary driver in an Indy-type race car and he'd probably crash before he got out of the pit area.

American auto racer

Many fans look upon an umpire as a necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

American baseball pitcher

For most amateurs, the best wood in the bag… the pencil!

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer

Pose nude for Playgirl? … I wouldn't pose nude for Boxing News.

English boxer

I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

1. Nothing is ever so bad it can't be made worse by firing the coach. 2. A free agent is anything but. 3. Whatever can go to New York will..

A string of good alibis.

professional baseball manager

Raise the urinals.

professional baseball player & announcer

In a perfect world, a fair world, Bob Hayes should be forced to carry a small calf on his shoulder when he runs the dashes…Mark Spitz, in all fairness, would swim with a sea anchor…[and] Ella Fitzgerald must sing every note with a mouth full of Tootsie Rolls.

(1919 – ) American sportswriter

I'm not surprised. The referee is a fine Catholic fellow by the name of Patrick Murphy.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

My DNA is cheeseburgers.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

All gong and no dinner… we just wish Anna would finally win something aside from hearts.