Subject: Sports (Page 2)

I don’t want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win.

professional basketball player

A woman will be elected president before Wade Boggs is called out on strikes.

(1953 – ) American baseball player

I’m throwing twice as hard, but the ball is getting there half as fast.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

Washington: first in war, first in peace, and last in the American League.

(1860 – 1931) American baseball writer & humorist

It’s a great advantage to be able to hurdle with both legs.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Rugby: A game played by gentlemen with odd-shaped balls.

Eating will now be an entirely new ball game. I might have to buy a new pair of trousers.

English jockey

If you’d offered me a 69 at the start this morning I’d have been all over you.

Scottish professional golfer

Handicap: An allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.

(1945 – ) American humorist (co-founder of National Lampoon)

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom’s apple pie.

(1926 – 1991) American television journalist

Passin’ Earnhardt is like trying to take a bone out of a Pit Bull’s mouth.

American auto racer

Beasley was 6’10” in college and 6’7” when he entered the NBA.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

For Michigan fans, football is a religion. And the Ohio State game is Easter.

(1948 – 2003) American actor

The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterwards.

Canadian hockey player & broadcaster

I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I make the putt.

Spanish professional golfer

A stadium with the lights out.

American baseball pitcher

Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.

Australian actor

His nerves, his memory… and I can’t remember the third thing.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

And the line up for the final of the Women’s 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Third base is certainly a reactionary position.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I’m trying to kick your ass… in a nice way.

American professional tennis player