Subject: Sports (Page 21)

Maggots Tackle Raiders

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

Canadian hockey coach

I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.

British boxer

You know you're on the Senior Tour when your back goes out more than you do.

professional golfer

They're like two bulldogs eating lunch off a Brillo pad!

Canadian hockey player

The rest of the field.

American professional golfer

He doesn’t cook well.

American professional tennis player

Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Columbus went around the world in 1492; that isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

When you say you're a padre, people ask when did you become a parent. When you say you're a cardinal, they tell you to work hard because the next step is pope. But when you say you're a Dodger, everybody knows you're in the Major Leagues.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

professional baseball player

In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.

(1908 – 2004) British/American journalist, television personality & broadcaster

They're selling video cassettes of the Ali-Spinks re-match for $89.95. Hell, for that money Leon will come to your house.

boxing physician

Nobody remembers the guy who finished second but the guy who finished second.

American auto racer

He could hit .300 with a fountain pen.

(1926 – 2016) American baseball player, announcer & television host

They write more books.

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach

And he’s done that in a whisker under 10 seconds, call it 9.7 in round figures.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Throwing people out of a game is like learning to ride a bicycle – once you get the hang of it, it can be a lot of fun.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire

Obviously a deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle.

(1916 – 1987) television actor & comedian

Call them pros, call them mercenaries – but in fact they are just grown-up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all.

Canadian hockey player