Subject: Sports (Page 5)

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.


Ed, you're the second best umpire in the league… the other twenty-three are tied for first.

American baseball player

I always have this dream that the guy coming in last for diving is going to do a cannonball for our amusement. – Olympic Diving

(1974 – ) American stand-up comedian

You can talk to a fade but a hook won’t listen.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

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

(1913 – 2006) 36th U.S. president

Sportscaster: The extra point is no good!

Robert Scott: Then it isn’t an extra point, is it?

I try to play golf at least once a day.

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach

The older you get the stronger the wind gets… and it's always in your face.

(1940 – ) professional golfer

He’s about the size of a lot of guys that size.

football coach

Sure… I’m proud to be an American.

professional baseball player

There are four different cars filling the first four places.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I think that the team that wins game five will win the series… unless we lose game five.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Everything was fine until I slid left and ran out of talent!

the 'father of drag racing'

They said I was such a great prospect that they were sending me to a winter league to sharpen up.; when I stepped off the plane, I was in Greenland.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Nobody but you and your caddie care what you do out there, and if your caddie is betting against you, he doesn't care, either.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

A friend tricked me into going to Wimbledon by telling me it was a men's singles event.

American comedian

I used to think the only use for it [sport] was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.

(1928 – ) British journalist, writer & columnist