Subject: Sports (Page 37)

To symbolize our great relationship, I'd like you to have this framed x-ray of my ulcer.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

Finley is going over to get a new piece of bat.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

These young guys are playing checkers; I'm out there playing chess.

American basketball player

I'm just what America needs – another unemployed black man.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Every man’s life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session.

(1782 – 1852) American statesman, senator (Massachusetts) & writer

I’m going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.

Sure… I’m proud to be an American.

professional baseball player

Man's got courage. Man's got guts. And I don't think he'll be with us very long.

professional football & TV commentator

Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

basketball coach

Golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

Owww… it caught ‘em right in the pants area.

(1958 – ) Canadian hockey player & announcer

I'd never buy my girl a watch… she's already got a clock over the stove.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

I'm the best heavyweight in Canada and I'll still be the best when I'm dead seven years.

Canadian boxing champion

When I was a kid, I wanted to play baseball and join the circus. With the Yankees, I've been able to do both.

American baseball player

They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.

American baseball player & manager

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

(1912 – 2002) professional golfer

That guy has muscles in places most people don't have places.

American basketball broadcaster

It's like someone jammed an electric light bulb in your face, and busted it. I thought half my head was blowed off… When he knocked me down I could have stayed there for three weeks.

American boxing champion

The Bears aren't very genteel; some teams tend to remove the football from you, the Bears remove you from the football – it's much quicker.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

Tito Fuentes is safe at second with a triple.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.

American sportswriter