Subject: Sports (Page 25)

If you act like you know what you’re doing, you can do anything you want… except neurosurgery.

professional baseball player

Every time a baseball player grabs his crotch, it makes him spit.

(1954 – ) American actress & comedian

Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.

Scottish football player & manager

If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Every time I get injured, my wife ends up pregnant.

Canadian hockey player & general manager

Fernando Valenzuela is the pitcher whose name sounds like a mailing address in the Lower Andes.

American sportswriter

Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.

professional golfer

For those of you watching who do not have television sets, live commentary is on Radio 2.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

The safest place would be in the fairway.

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

Just give every coach the same amount of money and tell them they can keep what’s left over.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

Some people think football is a matter of life and death… I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

Scottish football player & manager

This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.

American sports executive

His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce.

American boxer

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

He's the kind of player who usually comes along rarely and sometimes never.

(1927 – ) American football coach

Here’s Hodge on the breakaway! He’s all by himself. He shoots. And Hodge missed the goal! He’ll be thinking about that one for a while! Just look at the expression on Hodge’s stick!

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong – but that’s the way to bet.

(Bruce) Benedict may not be hurt as much as he really is.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Tambay’s hopes, which were nil before, are absolutely zero now.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I'll go another 15 rounds with Holmes if Howard will quit announcing football!

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor