Subject: Sports (Page 23)

Getting cut in the face is a pain in the butt.

Canadian hockey player

Golf is just a game – and an idiotic game most of the time.

American professional golfer

Some people have a chip on their shoulder; Billy has a whole lumberyard.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

I'm just glad it wasn't machete night.

Canadian hockey player

I've never scored a hat-trick before… not even playing against my sister in the yard at home.

Australian rugby player

I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.

professional golfer

Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by an occasional miracle.

The older you get, the faster you ran as a kid.

professional football player & coach

I used to play sports, then I realized you can buy trophies.

(1973 – ) American comedian

Biologically, I'm 10; chronologically, I'm 33, but in hockey years, I'm 66.


I told one player, 'Son, I can't understand it with you. Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'

American basketball coach & executive

If you have everyone back from a team that lost 10 games, experience isn't too important.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

The point is that it doesn't matter if you look like a beast before or after the hit, as long as you look like a beauty at the moment of impact.

Spanish professional golfer

Tito Fuentes is safe at second with a triple.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Frentzen is taking… er… reducing that gap between himself and Frentzen.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

There were times I felt like leaving the stadium and hitchhiking home.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

I told Zollie Volchok [Sonics general manager] we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

American basketball player & coach

In the back of Hughes' mind must be the thought that he will dance down the piss and mitch one.


Whenever they gave him the game ball, he ate it.

American football player

He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager

All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.

(1915 – 1987) American football player and coach