Subject: Sports (Page 60)

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

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

He is the best left fielder the Cardinals have, the best center fielder they have, the best first baseman they have. He is, in short, the best ball club in St. Louis and one of the best in the world.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter

You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.

American baseball pitcher

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season… one word and one word only – Super Bowl.

football coach

 I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4½ minutes – when they asked him what it was like being dead, he said it was like listening to Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto during a rain delay.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

baseball manager

Earnie hit me so hard, it shook my kinfolk back in Africa.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

Do I have to know rules and all that crap? Then forget it.

professional golfer

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

Slovak-born Canadian hockey player

Billy Wells was all chin from the waist up.

American boxer

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

professional baseball player & manager

I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Her time is about 4.33, which she’s capable of.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

He has a strike zone the size of Hitler’s heart.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.

baseball player

Complaints About NBA Referees Growing Ugly

It is now possible they can get the impossible score they first thought possible.

British cricket journalist

I told my team it doesn't matter… there are 750 million people in China who don't even know this game was played. The next day, a guy called me from China and asked, 'What happened, Coach?

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

A lot of horses get distracted; it’s just human nature.

Horse trainer

If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be the monkey.

American football defensive end

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

(1907 – 1987) American journalist & author