Subject: Sports (Page 69)

The people who gave us golf and called it a game are the same people who gave us bag pipes and called it music.

You don’t like to see hookers going down on players like that.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

The shoulder surgery was a success; the lobotomy failed.

(1939 – ) American football player & coach

Isn't it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?

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

So what if they're taller? We'll play big.

college basketball coach

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

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years… or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Baseball without fans is like Jayne Mansfield without a sweater.

(1902 – 1994) British-born American trial lawyer & author

Say, when do they begin?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

They're like two bulldogs eating lunch off a Brillo pad!

Canadian hockey player

No, I had 999 times to get ready for it.

American baseball player

If you can’t make the putts and can’t get the man in from second on the bottom of the ninth, you’re not going to win enough football games in this league, and that’s the problem we had today.

football coach

Always remember Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.

American football & basketball coach

That was a maximization of a minimization of hits.

professional baseball player

My girlfriend boos when we make love because she knows it turns me on.

Puerto Rican boxer

Many fans look upon an umpire as a necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

American baseball pitcher

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

I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer

He ran out of talent about halfway through the corner.

American auto racer

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

(1888 – 1931) American football player & coach

We were so poor a robber once broke into our house and we ended up robbing the robber.

American football player