Subject: Sports (Page 13)

If anyone wants me tell them I'm being embalmed.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Someone once told me that there is more to life than golf… I think it was my ex-wife.

(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist

Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Dave Wottle has completely misjudged this race… and here comes Wottle!

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I'd never buy my girl a watch… she's already got a clock over the stove.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Coach Red Auerbach makes mistakes, the entire Boston Celtics team makes mistakes, but they can get away with it because they have the world's largest eraser in center Bill Russell.

American basketball player

On this team, we are all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

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

I’m not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they’d come up sliced.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

They whipped us like a tied up goat.

Texas Tech football coach

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

American boxer

If you are going to have a fight with a visiting club, be sure to insult them the day they come to town, and not the last day of the series. It pays off better.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter

Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

There are only two seasons – winter and baseball.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter

The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.

I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.

Dutch-born American baseball pitcher

I’m throwing as hard as I ever did, but the ball is just not getting there as fast.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

I quit coaching because of illness and fatigue; the fans were sick and tired of me.

Canadian hockey player

How would you know, Sean? When I was playing you were in your 3rd year of 8th grade?

Canadian hockey player & commentator

Always remember: golf clubs don’t float.

People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year; they don’t realize that most of us only make $500,000.00.

professional baseball player

I'm happy for him [Gil Hodges]; that is, if you think becoming a big league manager is a good thing to have happen to you.

American baseball manager