Subject: Sports (Page 6)

A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.


How would you know, Sean? When I was playing you were in your 3rd year of 8th grade?

Canadian hockey player & commentator

Chappell just stood on his feet and smashed it to the boundary.

cricket commentator

Marshall's bowling with his head.

The only way I'm going to get a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.

professional baseball player

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers and cheating on your income tax.

(1932 – 1997) newspaper columnist

Say Satch, tell me, was Abraham Lincoln a crouch hitter?

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.

(1902 – 1968) novelist

You can't get rich sitting on the bench, but I'm giving it a try.

professional baseball player

If the Cincinnati Reds were the first major league baseball team… who did they play?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

It'll take three good ones to be on in two today, Sir.

British golf writer & commentator

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

American auto racer

Every time I sign a ball, and there have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn’t born Coveseski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.

American baseball player

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

(1770 – 1850) English Romantic poet

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

If he couldn't chip, he'd be selling cars in San Diego.

professional golfer & commentator

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around the ball park that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter

If you are going to have a fight with a visiting club, be sure to insult them the day they come to town, and not the last day of the series. It pays off better.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter

(We Used To Kiss On The Lips, But It’s) All Over Now

Life is just a place where we spend time between games.

(1925 – 1990) Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager

It's easy to stay in the majors for seven and a half years when you hit .300; but when you hit .216 like me, it's really an accomplishment.

professional baseball player