Subject: Sports (Page 35)

After all the years of punishment you've taken, you must be thinking about giving up pantomime.

(1952 – ) British barrister, comedy writer, and radio & television presenter

The way defenses are operating these days, the other team starts picking you up when you walk out of the hotel lobby.

American college basketball coach

You can sum up this sport in two words: You never know.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager

Columbus went around the world in 1492; that isn’t a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

Little League baseball is a good thing ’cause it keeps the parents off the streets, and it keeps the kids out of the house!

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

It's not whether you win or lose – but whether I win or lose!

professional golfer

I'm actually getting to sleep before I have breakfast.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

You have to treat death like any other part of life.

American auto racer

I knew when my career was over; in 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.

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

We don’t need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

He's great to the old guys. He's got one trainer just to treat varicose veins.

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

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

(1872 – 1970) British philosopher, mathematician, historian & social critic

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

It’s weird… people say they’re not like apes; now how do you explain football then?

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Stewart has two cars in the top five: Magnusson 5th and Barichello 6th.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I wouldn’t ever set out to hurt anybody deliberately unless it was, you know, important – like a league game or something.

professional football player

In baseball, you don’t know nothing.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

You don’t have enough smarts to straighten this out. This is unstraightable.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager

Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls.

(1929 – ) English race car driver

We raced the other day and it wasn't a photo finish… it was an oil painting.

Canadian hockey player