Subject: Sports (Page 35)

Baseball players are smarter than [American] football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the pitch?

American baseball pitcher

If the Bible has taught us anything – which it hasn't – it's that girls should stick to girl's sports like hot oil wrestling…

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

We've got to learn to stay out of triple plays.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

When you the man who beat the man who was the man… well, then you ‘The Man.’

American boxing champion

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.

(1937 – ) football coach, sportscaster, author & speaker

Fairway: A narrow strip of closely mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.

(1945 – ) American humorist (co-founder of National Lampoon)

Ever since he’s been a little boo-aw.

Canadian hockey coach

Golf, especially championship golf, isn't supposed to be fun, was never meant to be fair, and never will make any sense.

author

We’re not attempting to circumcise the rules.

football coach

Pedroza – the crown on his head hanging by a thread.

British sports commentator

Templeton is as hot as you can be and still walk!

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

My God, kids today think that the laces are for tying up the gloves.

American boxer

Baseball owners have moral scruples against taking any man’s dollar when there is a chance to take a dollar and a quarter.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter

One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.

(1926 – ) professional bowler

I spent $3 million on drink and $3 million on gambling, but I wasted the rest.

professional golfer

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

(1881 – 1965) American Major League Baseball executive

90% of the putts that are short don’t go in.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Most of my clichés aren’t original.

football coach

When Charlie Finley had his heart operation it took eight hours…. seven just to find his heart.

professional baseball pitcher

There are three things the average man thinks he can do better than everybody else: build a fire, run a motel and manage a baseball team.

(1927 – ) professional baseball player & coach