Subject: Sports (Page 48)

I’m going down so often these days you’d think I was making a blue movie.

English boxer

A Mexican won the Boston Marathon two years ago; he wasn’t even in the race; he was just running down the street.

(1953 – ) American comedian & actor

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

I don’t know that my behavior has improved all that much with age; they just found someone worse.

American professional tennis player

Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed.

British boxing champion

Things were so bad in Chicago last summer, that by the fifth inning the White Sox were selling hot dogs to go.

American baseball player

Two people fighting is not violence in hockey. It might be in tennis or bowling, but it's not in hockey.

Canadian hockey goalie & coach

Stroke-Of-Luck: Hole-in-One.

The kid looks good in his first game.

(1928 – ) Canadian professional ice hockey player

Play him, fine him, and play him again.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

There are younger Aztec ruins.

sportswriter & newspaper columnist

The number of shots taken by an opponent who is out of sight is equal to the square root of the sum of the number of curses heard plus the number of swishes.

(1927 – ) British journalist & author

Being an umpire is like being a king… it prepares you for nothing.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire

In Montana, they renamed a town after an all-time great, Joe Montana. Well, a town in Massachusetts changed their name to honor my guy Terry Bradshaw – Marblehead.

American football player & commentator

If Stan (Bowles) could pass a betting shop like he can pass a ball he’d have no trouble at all.

British football manager

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

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

I’m going to send the injured reserve players out for the toss next time.

professional football coach

Cricket is a game which the British, not being a spiritual people, had to invent in order to have some concept of eternity.

British politician

Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.

American baseball player

The Champagne they have stored is getting more valuable every year.

(1925 – 2005) television host

I can only see it going one way, that’s my way. How it’s actually going to go I can't really say.

English boxer