Subject: Sports (Page 3)

Now, if you’ll observe, my dear, croquet is a combination of two things: balance, timing, peripheral vision, superb coordination, and a killer’s instinct!

(1930 – ) American actor

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.

American professional golfer

The Gullikson twins here; an interesting pair… both from Wisconsin.

Tennis commentator

Andujar Cedeno to lead it off; he swings… and he is hit by a pitch… and it is hit over the wall and out of here for a home run.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I made a collect call to the Lions after they drafted me and they wouldn’t accept it.

(1935 – 2012) American football player, sports announcer & actor

Umpire's heaven is a place where he works third base every game; home is where the heartache is.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire

Larry Holmes didn't beat me — he just won the first 15 rounds.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

I guess it's why you never say never. The only thing you can never do is ski through a revolving door.

hockey coach

Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.

(1912 – 2002) professional golfer

The Baltimore Colts are a bright young team; it seems as if they have their future ahead of them.

(1919 – 2006) American sports announcer

My uncle always described an unforced error as his first marriage.

American journalist & tennis broadcaster

I’m undisputed. There's no disputing that.

British and Canadian boxing champion

… riding a typical McCoy race where, with five lengths to go, he literally picks up the horse and carries it over the line.

British sports commentator

Notices are appearing at courses telling golfers not to lick their balls on the green.

I never tried to outsmart nobody; it was easier to outdummy them.

professional baseball player

George Brett could get good wood on an aspirin.

American baseball manager

It hurt to even bump into him.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion

If officials called every penalty they saw, there would be no players on the ice and no one in the rink.

professional hockey referee

I can’t keep referring to basketball players as Khloe Kardashian’s husband and his friends.

(1983 – ) American comedian & actor

I wish I could remember everything I told him.

American baseball pitcher