Subject: Sports (Page 7)

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

American boxing champion

If I get run into again, I'm taking someone with me. I lost one knee. I'll take a head if it happens again.

Canadian hockey goaltender

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player… but they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor

I don’t have any tricky plays, I’d rather have tricky players.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

It don't matter as long as he can count up to ten.

American professional boxer

I can be found the next couple of months trying to perfect my new punch – the lip-buttoner.

American boxing champion

Columbus went around the world in 1492; that isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

Before the first Tyson fight, Frank Bruno figures to be the biggest British disaster since the Titanic. Las Vegas will bet you even money Bruno doesn't last the first round. He's 7-1 to lose, 6-1 to get knocked out, he's probably 7-5 to get killed.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

Walk him and face the next guy.

American baseball player

I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set… and they're both working.

1922 – 2006) American boxing champion

Let's go out there and win one for the quipper.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

There’s nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

Rocky Marciano stood out in boxing like a rose in a garbage dump.

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist

Eating will now be an entirely new ball game. I might have to buy a new pair of trousers.

English jockey

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.

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

Ingemar Johansson is a leviathan with a strangler's hands and a smile like the beam of a lighthouse.

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it.

(1910 – 1983) professional golfer

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year… it was my second season in the bigs.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor

I’m the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

George McGinnis has got the body of a Greek god and the running ability of a Greek goddess.

American sportscaster