Subject: Sports (Page 7)

Managing a baseball team is like trying to make chicken salad out of chicken shit.

American baseball player

Hockey would be a great game… if played in the mud.

(1909 – 1973) American sports journalist

Jack Del Rio and myself are very similar except he's really good looking and was a great player. Other than that we're very similar.

American football coach

That is because I don't have one.

American football player

‘Deuce’ is used so you don't have to count so high.

(1937 – ) comedian & television actor

If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable – but not as miserable.

(1947 – ) American comedian, writer, actor & television producer

When Charlie Finley had his heart operation it took eight hours…. seven just to find his heart.

professional baseball pitcher

Gold Medal Specialists. Sprints! Relays! Marathons! Hot and Raring to Go.

The game was closer than the score indicated.

professional baseball player

I think they just got through marinating the greens.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

(1803 – 1857) English writer

We get carried away with coaches and coaching. I have my coaching badges, but they came out of a Cornflakes packet at the time.

English football player & manager

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history, but I consider that a compliment, because I must have got up more than any heavyweight champion.

American boxing champion

The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Allen S. Sothoron pitched his initials off yesterday.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist

I didn't hear him because my two Stanley Cup rings were plugging my ears.

professional hockey player

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager

Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast.

Princess Anne’s horse is literally eating up the ground.

horse racing commentator

Driving a race car is like dancing with a chainsaw.

American auto racer

I don't think you ever stopped Bobby Orr. You contained him.  He was too talented and too great a player.  When we played the Bruins and Bobby had to give up the puck it was a good play.

Canadian hockey player