Subject: Sports (Page 120)

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

professional hockey player

When a fielder gets the pitcher in trouble, the pitcher has to pitch himself out of the slump he isn’t in.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

This year we plan to run and shoot. Next season we hope to run and score.

American basketball coach

Big balls count.

Australian runner

They say you're not a coach in the league till you've been fired. I must be getting pretty good.

Canadian hockey player & coach

I've always felt we weren't physical enough on the back line. Now there's a no-parking sign in front of our net.

hockey general manager

Don King is one of the great humanitarians of our time. He has risen above that great term, prejudice. He has screwed everybody he has ever been around. Hog, dog, or frog, it don't matter to Don. If you got a quarter, he wants the first 26 cents.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

I don't know, I've never hit myself.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

The film looks suspiciously like the game itself.

(1923 – 2013) American professional football coach

The problem with being Comeback Player of the Year is it means you have to go somewhere before you can come back.

Dutch-born American baseball pitcher

I’m glad you’re doing this story on us and not on the WNBA; we’re so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

professional tennis player

Here's a six-foot-ten guy in sneakers and the lady's asking me, 'Profession?'


To finish first, you must first finish.

American auto racer

It would have been worse if we hadn't blocked the kick after Toronto's second touchdown.

Canadian hockey player

The Cards lead the Dodgers 4-2 after one inning and that one hasn’t even started.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Basketball players get the girls, hockey players take them home.

One time, I got pulled over at four a.m.; I was fined seventy-five dollars for being intoxicated and four-hundred for being with the Phillies.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor

I guess it's why you never say never. The only thing you can never do is ski through a revolving door.

hockey coach

That’s the fastest time ever run – but it’s not as fast as the world record.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Knuckleball: A curveball that doesn't give a damn.

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist

First triple I ever had.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player