Subject: Sports (Page 8)

Once bitten, it is akin to having your neck punctured in Transylvania… there is no known antidote.

golf course architect

I'd rather fight than score.

Canadian hockey player

Putting an ex-fighter in the business world is like putting silk stockings on a pig.

boxing manager, trainer & cornerman

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

American basketball player

Federer Excited By His Own Form, Eager to Reclaim Top Spot

Pain is only temporary, no matter how long it lasts.

American football player

Some people say George Foreman is fit as a fiddle, but I think he looks more like a cello.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager

I always laugh when people ask me about rebounding techniques; I've got a technique… it's called just go get the damn ball.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.

professional golfer

He dribbles a lot and the opposition don’t like it – you can see it all over their faces.

English former football player & manager

Sports is the toy department of human life, and Monday Night Football is the largest attraction in the toy department.

(1918 – 1995) American sports journalist & television commentator

He opened his legs and showed us what he’s got.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink; no team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.

American sportswriter

Reporter to Brett Hull: If you were a tree, what kind of a tree would you be?

Hull: Shoe

Canadian-born American hockey player

And there’s no damage to the car… except to the car itself.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

It would have been a good pass if Harry had been playing for us.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.

professional golfer

Larry Holmes didn't beat me — he just won the first 15 rounds.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

The playoffs separate the men from the boys, and we found out we have a lot of boys in our dressing room.

Canadian hockey general manager

I asked my doctor how many more years I have left and he said, 'You're too ornery to die.'

(1929 – ) American baseball player who had a well-publicized bipolar disorder