Subject: Sports (Page 5)

It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Golf is a better game played downhill.

(1940 – ) professional golfer

The only way that Miami will beat Florida St. is if they outscore them.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

Yes, golf can be taught – it’s just that it can’t be learned.

(1926 – 2010) Canadian actor

If a coach starts listening to the fans, he ends up sitting next to them.

professional basketball player & coach

My three best punches were the choke hold, the rabbit punch and the head butt.

American boxer

I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give it up. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football. And I have 20-20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

He is not in a union; he can carry the ball as many times as we want him to… anyway, the ball doesn't weigh that much.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him forf the entire weekend.


I'm going to have minor brain surgery.

American auto racer

We'll be back with the recrap after this message.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Hornets Will Accent Throwing Game in ’81

Young Tight Ends Excite Coaches

I normally run the 40-yard dash in 4.9, but when a 280-pound guy is chasing me, I run it in 4.6.

American football player

Retire to what?… I'm a golfer and a fisherman; there's nothing to retire to.

professional golfer

I’ll bet the hardest thing about prize fightin’ is pickin’ up yer teeth with a boxin’ glove on.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

He told me he caddied in the same group with me in the Hot Springs Open. That's why I voted for him, because he was a caddie.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer

I used to pray to the Lord every night to make me a hockey player. Of course, I forgot to mention the NHL so I spent 16 years in the minors.

Canadian hockey player, coach & commentator

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 have fifty-one golf courses in Palm Springs; he (Gerald Ford) never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

You know, just once I’d like to hear a player say, ‘Yeah, we were in the game – until Jesus made me fumble; he hates our team.’

(1959 – ) American stand-up comedian