Subject: Sports (Page 31)

They throw Winfield out at second, but he’s safe.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

He’s going for the green – and for those watching in black and white it’s behind the brown.

BBC commentator

Cleveland’s Colon Has Emerged Smelling Like a Rose

Son, looks to me like you’re spending too much time on one subject.

college basketball coach

When I ask you what club to use, look the other way and don't answer.

(1912 – 2002) professional golfer

He had the ability of taking a bad situation and making it immediately worse.

(1881 – 1965) American Major League Baseball executive

I don’t want to die in the middle of the football season; I have to know who’s No. 1 in the last polls.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

They said I was such a great prospect that they were sending me to a winter league to sharpen up.; when I stepped off the plane, I was in Greenland.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor

Everyone is unhappy at times, even my wife. Only she doesn't get interviewed about it.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

I’d like to help you, but you don’t drink.

professional baseball player & manager

He was asked to throw out the first ball at a World Series game; but … he looked at the ball and, instead of throwing it, he put it in his pocket and sat down.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Most people play a fair game of golf… if you watch them.

(1911 – 1999) comedian, author & columnist

He ran out of talent about halfway through the corner.

American auto racer

I’ll be sad to go, and I wouldn’t be sad to go; it wouldn’t upset me to leave St. Louis, but it would upset me to leave St. Louis; it’s hard to explain. You’ll find out one of these days, but maybe you never will.

Canadian-born American hockey player

That boy couldn't hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Eating will now be an entirely new ball game. I might have to buy a new pair of trousers.

English jockey

You usually wind up staying up all night, or until your best player comes in.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

I don’t like dogs… keep getting mustard on my catcher’s mitt.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Bauer taught me how to dress, how to talk — and how to drink.

(1931 – 1995) American baseball player

That picture was taken out of context.

professional baseball player

I just stood there watching him walk past and thinking, ‘I don’t know what that is, but I know there weren’t two of them on Noah’s Ark.’

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator