Subject: Sports (Page 18)

I know it's said that I can't punch, but you should see me putting the cat out at night.

boxer

I don’t fear death, but I sure don’t like those three-footers for par.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer

Throw strikes – home plate don't move.

American baseball player

I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check; I'm in the check cashing business.

American professional boxer

The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off; I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer

All the records were gone. So I figured here's one record I can get.

Canadian hockey player

I'll go another 15 rounds with Holmes if Howard will quit announcing football!

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

The last thing you want to do is shoot 80 wearing tartan trousers.

English professional golfer

There’s no crying in baseball!

(1956 – ) American movie actor

I wouldn’t ever set out to hurt anybody deliberately unless it was, you know, important – like a league game or something.

professional football player

Behind every good decathlete, there's a good doctor.

American Olympic decathlon champion

We've got to learn to stay out of triple plays.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Louise Goodman to British racing driver Johnny Herbert: Johnny, it's started to rain, how will that affect the track?

Herbert’s reply: Well, it makes it wet usually.

British racing driver

Actually, the only time I ever took out a one-iron was to kill a tarantula… and it took a 7 to do that.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

Golf is a game in which you yell ‘fore,’ shoot six, and write down five.

(1918 – 2009) radio broadcaster

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man’s failures.

(1891 – 1974) 14th U.S. Chief Justice & politician

With so many Super Bowl rings, maybe they'll all retire and go into the jewelry business.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Keke Rosberg is as calculating as a slot machine.

British racing executive, writer & photographer

I am sorry Nick Faldo couldn't be here this week… he is attending the birth of his next wife.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

I wish I could remember everything I told him.

American baseball pitcher

The only way I'm going to get a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.

professional baseball player