Subject: Sports (Page 115)

Haven't they suffered enough?

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

The series is already won, but I don’t know by which team.

professional baseball player

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. 

professional hockey player

He’s the man of the hour at this particular moment.

(1931 – ) American boxing promoter

The place was cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

professional baseball player

The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is – don't.

American professional golfer

I don't know what impressive is, but Joe was impressive tonight.

wife of fighter Joe Bugner

There is no secret to running – run hard, have a beer, have a pizza. We make it too complicated.

New Zealand runner

I'd have been more active in there, if only I'd been a little more sober.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

Playing with your spouse on the golf course runs almost as great a marital risk as getting caught playing with someone else's anywhere else.

golf journalist

Cricket shouldn't be used as a political football.

English cricketer

Hey, the offensive linemen are the biggest guys on the field, they're bigger than everybody else, and that's what makes them the biggest guys on the field.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer

Sure, as long as he ties a 56 lb. weight to each leg.

English boxing champion

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball; I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

(1934 – ) American baseball player

Not a good night for Zola Budd. She died on the last lap and finished fourth.

You know you're on the Senior Tour when your back goes out more than you do.

professional golfer

That’s cricket, Harry, you get these sort of things in boxing.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

My wife made me a millionaire. Before she divorced me, I had three million.

professional hockey player

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

(1907 – 1987) American journalist & author

Years ago we had the Raging Bull, Jake LaMotta. Today, we've got the Raging Bullshit, Bruce Strauss.

boxing matchmaker

His detractors faulted him for over managing and for giving more signs than the Coast Guard.

baseball writer