Subject: Sports (Page 22)

Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.

playwright, performer, musician, screenwriter & humorist

Hey, you're a white guy, do something about this!

(1950 – ) American boxer & 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

Rugby League is war without the frills.

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

You've got to think lucky; if you fall into a mud hole, check your back pocket – you might have caught a fish.

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach

He's as old as some trees.

Canadian hockey player & coach

It must be the body. It’s chiseled out of marshmallows.

American hockey player

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Sure, it's nice to win; but there's only one thing that's important to me and that's the money we're going to get, win or lose.

professional baseball player

He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

Complaints About NBA Referees Growing Ugly

Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

(1931 – ) American baseball player & manager

Reggie Jackson wouldn’t get into the batter’s box until he knew we were back from commercial; of course, [Bob] Uecker wanted to hit during the commercial.

sports announcer

The biggest liar in the world is the golfer who claims that he plays the game merely for exercise.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer

It is better to give a lick than receive one.

American football player

Playing middle linebacker is like walking through a lion's cage in a three-piece porkchop suit.

professional football player

The Rock didn't know too much about the boxing book, but it wasn't a book he hit me with. It was a whole library of bone crushers.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion

I know you can be fined for throwing a club, but I want to know if you can get fined for throwing a caddie?

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer