Subject: Sports (Page 14)

You can't even jump high enough to touch the rim, unless they put a Big Mac on it.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Speed, strength and the inability to register pain immediately.

American football player

Penn State had less firepower than Sweden did in World War II.

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

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

There are two reasons for making a hole in one; the first is that it is immensely labor-saving.

Ballesteros felt much better today after a 69 yesterday.

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

Hockey is a game played by six good players and a home team.

If you think golf is relaxing, you're not playing it right.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

It’s weird… people say they’re not like apes; now how do you explain football then?

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

I'm not into sports. If someone told me I had athlete's foot, I'd say that's not my foot!

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

I don't mind starting the season with a bunch of unknowns. I just don't like finishing a season with a bunch of them.

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

I thought I would have a quiet pint … and about 17 noisy ones.

British rugby player

That puck would have gone in the net if not for the goalie.

(1958 – ) Canadian hockey player & announcer

I’m not sure whether I’d rather be managing or testing bulletproof vests.

American baseball player, manager & executive

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

Canadian hockey player

I didn’t see [Christy] Mathewson, but Oquendo said he had a good slider.

American baseball player

From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer

The fans like to see Balde wear his "shirt on his sleeve."

Scottish football player

He (Julio Cesar Chavez) speaks English, Spanish, and he’s bilingual, too.

(1931 – ) American boxing promoter

It’s basically the same, just darker.

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