Subject: Sports (Page 15)

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

Canadian hockey player

We had a good team on paper. Unfortunately, the game was played on grass.

English football player & manager

If you break 100, watch your golf; if you break 80, watch your business.

(1911 – 1999) comedian, author & columnist

Urban should know. Almost 30 of his players have been arrested over the years, so he apparently knows a bad guy when he sees one.

sports reporter

That’s Hendrick’s 19th home run; one more and he reaches double figures.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

He's a leading leader on this football team.

American football coach

The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off!

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

He stings like a bee, but lives like a W.A.S.P.

Irish radio & television presenter

I’m going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.

His left wrist is so strong that he’d knock his own teeth out if he didn’t brush them right-handed.

American journalist & tennis broadcaster

I'd take five [former player] Milt Schmidts, put my grandmother in the nets and we'd beat any team.

Former NHL referee

Brooks [Robinson] never asked anyone to name a candy bar after him; in Baltimore, people named their children after him.

sports writer

You might be a redneck if… you think watching professional wrestling is foreplay.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb… it took me only a few days to correct that impression.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I got hit in the head pretty hard. My clock ran backwards for two years.

American auto racer

He is accelerating all the time; the last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before that in 62.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

 The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey; the old ballplayer cared about the name on the front… the new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

professional baseball player

I couldn't done it without my players.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Gators To Face Seminoles With Peters Out

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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child; just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

(1932 – 2009) author, poet & critic