Subject: Sports (Page 4)

I know I’m getting better at golf because I’m hitting fewer spectators.

(1913 – 2006) 36th U.S. president

Jenson Button is in the top ten… in eleventh position.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.

American auto racer

His throw went absolutely nowhere near where it was going.

Australian cricketer & commentator

His face is sagging with tension.

English sports commentator

Playing goal is like being shot at.

professional hockey goalie

His gloves, dear. I've never been hit by an eye in my life.

British boxer

With so many Super Bowl rings, maybe they'll all retire and go into the jewelry business.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.

1913 – 1983) American college football coach

All there is to bull riding is to put one leg on each side of the bull and make an ugly face for eight seconds.

American professional rodeo champion

I am sorry Nick Faldo couldn't be here this week… he is attending the birth of his next wife.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

The Mets achieved total incompetence in a single year, while the Browns worked industriously for almost a decade to gain equal proficiency.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

American baseball player

He just got me in the right spot. In the small of the back. A good, clean, dirty hit… not that I didn't deserve it.

American hockey player

The 49ers were so badly flattened that they didn't fly back to San Francisco, they were faxed.

American sports columnist

But he was the worst dresser in organized baseball; he made Inspector Clouseau look like a candidate for Mr. Blackwell's list of best-dressed men.

American baseball pitcher

When I went to Catholic high school in Philadelphia, we just had one coach for football and basketball. He took all of us who turned out and had us run through a forest. The ones who ran into the trees were on the football team.

American basketball coach

I told my team it doesn't matter… there are 750 million people in China who don't even know this game was played. The next day, a guy called me from China and asked, 'What happened, Coach?

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Never worry about missing a field goal. Just blame the holder and think about making the next one.

professional football kicker (once seen wearing a watch during a game)

Personally, I have always looked upon cricket as organized loafing.

(1881–1944) Archbishop of Canterbury

Golf balls are attracted to water as unerringly as the eye of a middle-aged man to a female bosom.

(1927 – ) British journalist & author