Subject: Sports (Page 114)

I fear no man, but the dentist.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

You won't find a single four-letter word in there… I don't go for that bullshit.

(1918 – ) American baseball pitcher

All hockey players are bilingual; they know English and profanity.

(1928 – ) Canadian professional ice hockey player

Every time a puck gets past me and I look back into the net, I say, ‘uh-oh.'

Canadian ice hockey goaltender

I feel like I’m the best, but you’re not going to get me to say that.

professional football player

Son, looks to me like you’re spending too much time on one subject.

college basketball coach

If the Cincinnati Reds were the first major league baseball team… who did they play?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together.

American basketball player & coach

Some of ours [umpires] is so crooked that they can lay in a berth only when the train’s making a curve.

(1885 – 1933) columnist & writer

I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.

(1939 – ) American actor, dancer, singer, producer & choreographer

Or the day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.

Russian hockey player

The reason they call if ‘golf’ is that all the other four-letter words were used up.

In baseball, you don’t know nothing.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I didn’t see [Christy] Mathewson, but Oquendo said he had a good slider.

American baseball player

It looks like a one armed man trying to wrestle a snake in a phone booth.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him forf the entire weekend.


These two teams are mirror images of themselves.

All women tennis players should go on their knees in thankfulness to Suzanne Lenglen for delivering them from the tyranny of corsets.

American professional tennis player

Cricket: A game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

Since I've retired, I eat less, weigh less, train less and care less.

American boxing champion