Subject: Sports (Page 4)

Any minute now we will have the East German pole vault over the satellite.

British sports commentator

And Michael Schumacher just stood on his seat and pulled out something special.

British auto racer

On the road when you go downstairs for coffee in your underwear, they throw you out of the kitchen.

baseball player

We got a lot of guys not doing what their bubble-gum card says they can do.

professional baseball player & manager

I hate the minor leagues. I'd rather go out to lunch with my ex-wife's attorney, then play in the minors.

baseball player

Johnny Carson gently suggested to Cobb that Larry Holmes seemed to be always a step ahead of him

Cobb replied: Did it seem that way to you too?

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

Exciting plays occur only while you are watching the scoreboard or out buying a hot dog.

Frank Bruno's fall was that of a felled oak. As the dust settled there was a silence, and then followed the gentle rustle of falling leaves of greenbacks.

(1944 – ) British sportswriter

If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.

boxing writer & sports historian

Maybe that will distract the Falcon quarterback.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

They don't mind after they find out they don't have to study for it.

American football coach

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

British sports commentator

Sandy: I want you to kill every gopher on the course!

Carl: Check me if I’m wrong Sandy, but if I kill all the golfers, they’re gonna lock me up and throw away the key.

(1950 – ) American actor & comedian

There are two things that won’t last long in this world – dogs that chase cars and pros that putt for pars.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

Tennis is like marrying for money; ‘love’ means nothing.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing – but none of them serious.

English professional boxer

The Rock didn't know too much about the boxing book, but it wasn't a book he hit me with. It was a whole library of bone crushers.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion

A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at six o'clock and make it go toward twelve o'clock. But make sure you're in the same time zone.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer

Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

There'll be two buses leaving the hotel for the park tomorrow. The two o'clock bus will be for those of you who need a little extra work. The empty bus will leave at five o'clock.

professional baseball manager

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball; I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

(1934 – ) American baseball player