Subject: Sports (Page 80)

If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly; if they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick… same thing.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

You won't find a single four-letter word in there… I don't go for that bullshit.

(1918 – ) American baseball pitcher

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

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

Some players would complain if they had to play on Dolly Parton's bedspread.

(1910 – 1983) professional golfer

Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

He'll have a lot of fun. George will keep him in stitches.

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The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

novelist, screenwriter & businessman

If God wants to produce the ideal golfer then He should create a being with a set of unequal arms and likewise legs, an elbow-free left arm, knees which hinge sideways and a ribless torso from which emerges, at an angle of 45 degrees, a stretched neck fitted with one color-blind eye stuck firmly on the left side.

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He’s shown a lack of inconsistency.

Most of my clichés aren’t original.

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A sense of humor and a good bullpen.

(1931 – ) American baseball player & manager

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

(1897 – 1976) American novelist, short story & sports writer

Dave Wottle has completely misjudged this race… and here comes Wottle!

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Cricket is baseball on valium.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

It looks like a one armed man trying to wrestle a snake in a phone booth.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

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

New Zealand rugby player & commentator

First triple I ever had.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

When I looked at the third base coach for a sign, he turned his back on me.

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

Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

(1914 – 1986) American baseball team owner & promoter

The trial began in Lake Charles, Louisiana of a jockey accused of hiding his horse in dense fog to win a race at Evangeline Downs.

Years ago we had the Raging Bull, Jake LaMotta. Today, we've got the Raging Bullshit, Bruce Strauss.

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