Subject: Sports (Page 14)

I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.

Australian football player

My nose didn't move… it definitely had position.

American basketball player

I think that the team that wins game five will win the series… unless we lose game five.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.

Canadian hockey coach

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

professional baseball player

In pro boxing, let's face it, the name of the game is how much you make – not how many honors won. Billy Walker was the most successful flop in history.

English boxing journalist & commentator

When you the man who beat the man who was the man… well, then you ‘The Man.’

American boxing champion

Boxing: A mutual affliction of brain damage for the amusement of the public.

Virginia has already spent more on plugging Shawn Moore for the Heisman Trophy than Thomas Jefferson spent getting elected president.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

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

South African professional golfer

I always have this dream that the guy coming in last for diving is going to do a cannonball for our amusement. – Olympic Diving

(1974 – ) American stand-up comedian

Ghosts Take Derby

Two kinds of American football players ain't worth a damn: one that never does what he's told and the other that does nothing but what he's told.

(1923 – 2013) American professional football coach

It takes longer to learn to be a good golfer than it does to become a brain surgeon. On the other hand, you don't get to ride around on a cart, drink beer, eat hot dogs and stare at the cart girl's tits all day if you are performing brain surgery.

The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level.

professional baseball player & executive

What happens to me next year will happen to me no matter what happens.

professional basketball player

It is now possible they can get the impossible score they first thought possible.

British cricket journalist

Sex is the poor man’s polo.

(1906 – 1963) playwright, screenwriter & socialist

Sleep came as it must come to all British heavyweights, midway in the fifth round.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter

He shortened my career having to chase him around the ice all the time.

Canadian ice hockey player & coach

Better teams win more often than the teams that are not so good.

professional hockey coach