Subject: Sports (Page 12)

Yeah, I regret we weren't on a higher floor.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

I've made the national anthem a six-point underdog.

American sports commentator & oddsmaker

If I'm having brain surgery, I'll be darned if I want that surgeon playing for a tie.

American college football coach

You can always get someone to do your thinking for you.

(1928 – ) Canadian professional ice hockey player

Our first priority was staying alive. Our second was stopping the puck.

Canadian hockey player

If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

American auto racer

All of a sudden he’s hurt and I’ve got to get the popcorn out of my teeth.

American hockey player

As I remember it, the bases were loaded.

professional baseball player

I've been big ever since I was little.

American football player

I go from locker to locker, pretending the guys are here. You know, give them a little bit of a pep talk. It must be working, because we haven't lost a game yet.

hockey coach

If the roof fell in and Diz was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried and a gumdrop would fall in his mouth.

(1906 – 1991) American baseball player, coach & manager

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

American professional golfer

The advantage of the rain is, that if you have a quick bike, there’s no advantage.

British motorcycle road racer

If you’ve only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs… it’ll seem like forever.

hockey announcer

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

I'm just what America needs – another unemployed black man.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom’s apple pie.

(1926 – 1991) American television journalist

I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.

American basketball player

Do they leave it there during games?

American baseball pitcher

Actually, the only time I ever took out a one-iron was to kill a tarantula… and it took a 7 to do that.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter