Subject: Sports (Page 67)

All the Padres need is a flyball in the air.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I'm glad it's him and not some other puke.

Canadian hockey player

Early in the year, after a bad game, I said to my kids in the car, this is my last year and the next day I was getting phone calls from the school about whether I was retiring.  And that was in October.

(1961 – ) Canadian hockey player & owner

I was like a pig with a wristwatch.

American auto racer

Hockey is the original extreme sport.

American hockey player

Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer

In a perfect world, a fair world, Bob Hayes should be forced to carry a small calf on his shoulder when he runs the dashes…Mark Spitz, in all fairness, would swim with a sea anchor…[and] Ella Fitzgerald must sing every note with a mouth full of Tootsie Rolls.

(1919 – ) American sportswriter

I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.

British boxer

I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist

If I was earning £1 a race, I'd still be a racing driver – just a poor one.

British auto racer

The Mets just had their first .500 or better April since July of 1992.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Personally, I have always looked upon cricket as organized loafing.

(1881–1944) Archbishop of Canterbury

If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. It’s the hardest shot for the well-endowed; like when I used to beat Ann Jones, she could hit under them or over them but never through them.

American professional tennis player

We worked 80 hour weeks for 30 years to keep from having to get a real job.

American drag racing crew chief & pioneer

A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.

(1945 – ) American humorist (co-founder of National Lampoon)

One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.

(1926 – ) professional bowler

If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs.

(1931 – ) American baseball player & manager

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

(1932 – 1997) newspaper columnist

Spring training should last one day. We'd have the team golf outing and head north.

professional baseball player

I made a collect call to the Lions after they drafted me and they wouldn’t accept it.

(1935 – 2012) American football player, sports announcer & actor

Relax, all right? Don’t try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring; besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some ground balls. It’s more democratic.

(1955 – ) American actor, musician, producer & director