Subject: Sports (Page 23)

Oh, hell, if you win twenty games they want you to do it every year.

professional baseball player

It’s like flying jet fighters in a gymnasium.

American auto racer

My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.

professional football player

There are only two seasons – winter and baseball.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter

You can tell that you’re in trouble when you feel the air on the back of your neck instead of in your face.

American auto racer

Sex is the poor man’s polo.

(1906 – 1963) playwright, screenwriter & socialist

If I’m on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast… if God wants to play through, let him.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

Whore – Amazing Happen NBA

He shortened my career having to chase him around the ice all the time.

Canadian ice hockey player & coach

I’m not feeling very well – I need a doctor immediately; ring the nearest golf course.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I have an amazing ability to forget.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

Welcome to Worcester where we have just seen Barry Richards hit one of Basil D'Oliveira's balls clean out of the ground.

cricket announcer

Baseball is like church…. many attend, few understand.

(1906 – 1991) American baseball player, coach & manager

The Republic-of-China – back in the Olympic Games for the first time.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Tennis is like marrying for money; ‘love’ means nothing.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

We all get heavier as we get older because there’s a lot more information in our heads.

professional basketball player

Can’t anything be done about calling these guys student athletes? … That’s like referring to Attila the Hun’s cavalry as “weekend warriors.”

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

I'd like to see the fairways more narrow; then everybody would have to play from the rough, not just me.

Spanish professional golfer

It gets late out there early.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

You have only two hemispheres in your brain – a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and the right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

American baseball pitcher

He's ranked number three in Britain, number four in the world. You can't get any higher!

English darts player