Subject: Sports (Page 121)

The older you get the stronger the wind gets… and it's always in your face.

(1940 – ) professional golfer

Golf giveth and golf taketh away, but it taketh away a hell of a lot more than it giveth.

South African professional golfer

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

The least thing upsets him on the links; he missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.

Senators Maintain Their Hold On Devils

I just tape four Tylenols to it.

Russian hockey player

He can run, but he can't hide.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion

You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle.

football coach

The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

It has made the richest prize in sport the richest prize in sport.

American boxer

I have an amazing ability to forget.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

Sugar: Water polo? Isn’t that terribly dangerous?

Junior: I’ll say. I had two ponies drown under me.

(1925 – 2010) American film actor

Because this is a title fight, I can have four people in the corner and I'll have an extra cut-man. I'll also have an extra stool, one for Vinnie to sit on, and the other to throw at him if he doesn't listen to me.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager

As a person gets older he doesn't get faster. Our quarterback will run from fright or lack of protection.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Being an umpire is like being a king… it prepares you for nothing.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire

These people haven’t seen the last of my face. If I go down, I’m going down standing up.

American basketball player

Optimistically, you hope someday you’ll be in a magazine. Of course, your mom hopes it’s Sports Illustrated or something like that.

American hockey player & coach

It was close for Zaheer, Lawson threw his hands in the air and Marsh threw his head in the air.

cricket commentator

Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.