Subject: Sports (Page 123)

I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.

American basketball player & broadcaster

Frentzen is taking… er… reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Now it comes to a simple equation – who can stand the heat.

British sports commentator

I’d like to help you, but you don’t drink.

professional baseball player & manager

Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

Young Tight Ends Excite Coaches

I can take it but I can't dish it out.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

Incompetence should not be confined to one sex.

American basketball player & coach

Show me a man who is a good loser and I’ll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

Trade him for a six pack — it doesn't even have to be cold.

Philadelphia Eagles coach

There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.

Scottish auto racer

Goaltenders are three sandwiches shy of a picnic. From the moment primitive man lurched erect, he survived on the principle that when something hard and potentially lethal comes toward you at great velocity, get the hell out of it's path.

Canadian hockey player

Ernie Irvan could go bear hunting with a switch. He ain't never afraid.

American auto racer

They said I was such a great prospect that they were sending me to a winter league to sharpen up.; when I stepped off the plane, I was in Greenland.

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

I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

I have a lifetime contract. That means I can't be fired during the third quarter if we're ahead and moving the ball.

(1937 – ) football coach, sportscaster, author & speaker

Left hand, right hand, it doesn’t matter, I’m amphibious.

professional basketball player

Sean Avery is liked about as much as a rattlesnake at a picnic.

A friend tricked me into going to Wimbledon by telling me it was a men's singles event.

American comedian

Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.

professional golfer

The first time I ever came into a game there [Yankee Stadium], I got in the bullpen car and they told me to lock the doors.

American baseball pitcher