Subject: Sports (Page 42)

What a town. They boo Willie Mays and cheer Khrushchev.

New York writer

It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.


Interviewer: Did you graduate from Auburn?
Charles: No, but I have a couple people working for me who did.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

When you lose your hands, you can’t play baseball.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it.

(1910 – 1983) professional golfer

Show me a good loser, and Ill show you a loser.

(1913 – 1970) football coach

Boxing: A mutual affliction of brain damage for the amusement of the public.

A lot of good ballgames on tomorrow, but we’re going to be right here with the Cubs and the Mets.

baseball broadcaster

Not everyone likes sports… Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

(1970 – ) American actor, producer & stand up comedian

For those of us who are baseball fans and agnostics, the [Baseball] Hall of Fame is as close to a religious experience as we may ever get.

American author

Sam Snead was born with a natural ability to keep his bar bills as low as his golf scores.

(1910 – 1983) professional golfer

There are younger Aztec ruins.

sportswriter & newspaper columnist

I believe in higher education… you know, 6'8", 6'9", 6'10."

Short girls who take all the tall guys.

American professional tennis player

Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded – accordion-style – back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.

(1966 – ) American journalist & novelist

We're looking forward to building the type of team the Rangers are able to buy.

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager

The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

I’m not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they’d come up sliced.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

I can’t really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.

American basketball player

War is hell, but expansion is worse.

hockey coach