Subject: Sports (Page 67)

Defensively, I think it’s important for us to tackle.

professional football player

You might be a redneck if… you think watching professional wrestling is foreplay.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

He’s easy to do. Sit on the bench. Play about 10 minutes a game.

Czech hockey player

She's slower than trying to bake a pie with a lighter.

American professional golfer

He told me just to keep the ball low.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer

Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ‘em.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. 

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

Tony has a quick look between his legs and likes what he sees.

British commentator

Gibson's the luckiest pitcher I've ever seen because he always picks the night to pitch when the other team doesn't score any runs.

American baseball player & commentator

That was a tremendous six. The ball was still in the air as it went over the boundary.

English cricketer

When you hear someone shout "You da man" – if he ain't shouting at Arnold Palmer, then it ain't da man. 

newspaper sports columnist

On this team, we are all united in a common goal: to keep my job.

(1937 – ) football coach, sportscaster, author & speaker

It's not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.

American football player

To Dallas Cowboys President Tex Schramm: You're one of the two most efficient organizations in the 20th century.

Schramm: What's the other?

Cook: The Third Reich.

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

I heard Tonya Harding is calling herself the Charles Barkley of figure skating; I was going to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized I have no character.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

A lot of good ballgames on tomorrow, but we’re going to be right here with the Cubs and the Mets.

baseball broadcaster

The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former, the ball is the missile, in the latter, men are the missiles

English schoolmaster, sexologist, anthropologist & sports journalist

Golf is my real profession – show business pays my greens fees.

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

Marshall's bowling with his head.

Why does everybody stand up and sing ‘Take Me Out to the Ballgame’ when they’re already there?

professional baseball player