Subject: Sports (Page 3)

Don King dresses like a pimp and speechifies like a store-front preacher.

boxing writer

He hits from both sides of the plate; he’s amphibious.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

baseball manager

Oi, leave our flies alone, Jardine. They’re the only friends you’ve got here.

Stephen Gascoigne (1878 – 1942) Australian sports fan & heckler

There’s no crying in baseball!

(1956 – ) American movie actor

These two teams are mirror images of themselves.

He won the bronze medal in the 1976 Olympics so he’s used to being out in front.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I can't tell who's leading… it's either Oxford or Cambridge.

British news commentator

I didn’t see [Christy] Mathewson, but Oquendo said he had a good slider.

American baseball player

Every time I sign a ball, and there have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn’t born Coveseski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.

American baseball player

If you can’t make the putts and can’t get the man in from second on the bottom of the ninth, you’re not going to win enough football games in this league, and that’s the problem we had today.

football coach

I’m throwing as hard as I ever did, but the ball is just not getting there as fast.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

You're damn right I know where I am! I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the sh*t kicked out of me.

American boxer

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

I didn’t hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.

Canadian ice hockey goaltender

If lessons are learned in defeat, as they say, our team is really getting a great education.

American football coach

If God wants to produce the ideal golfer then He should create a being with a set of unequal arms and likewise legs, an elbow-free left arm, knees which hinge sideways and a ribless torso from which emerges, at an angle of 45 degrees, a stretched neck fitted with one color-blind eye stuck firmly on the left side.

golf author

Capece is kaput.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

First triple I ever had.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

Trade him for a six pack — it doesn't even have to be cold.

Philadelphia Eagles coach

I’m hoping for a bench clearing brawl during the warm up so I can go out and grab his stick.

Canadian hockey goaltender