Subject: Sports (Page 9)

Last night's homer was Willie Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

The Rangers…

Canadian professional hockey goalie

Pretty soon somebody will come out of the dugout with a fork and get him.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I'm really not a Facebook or Twitter guy; I'm a prime-rib-and-baked-potato guy.

American baseball player & manager

For over 20 years the Boston Celtics have stood for something. The only thing they stand for now is the [national] anthem.

American sportswriter

1. Nothing is ever so bad it can't be made worse by firing the coach. 2. A free agent is anything but. 3. Whatever can go to New York will..

It’s nice to have a guy that young come along; we usually go out and find somebody who’s 47.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager

That guy has muscles in places most people don't have places.

American basketball broadcaster

Need to tie some kerosene rags around his ankles so the ants don’t eat his candy ass.

American auto racer

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball; I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

(1934 – ) American baseball player

I've never scored a hat-trick before… not even playing against my sister in the yard at home.

Australian rugby player

When I am right, no one remembers. When I am wrong, no one forgets.

American baseball umpire

I don't mind starting the season with a bunch of unknowns. I just don't like finishing a season with a bunch of them.

(1937 – ) football coach, sportscaster, author & speaker

There is one word in baseball that says it all, and that word is, ‘You never know.’

professional baseball player

I'm concentrating so much I don't know what I'm doing half the time.

British boxer

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.

(1922 – ) American baseball player & manager

Jack Dempsey hit me hardest, 'cos Dempsey hit me 211,000 dollars' worth, while Joe Louis only hit me 36,000 dollars' worth.

American boxing champion

The last time I saw anything like this I was playing for Tastee Freeze in the Little League.

professional baseball pitcher

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art; trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

Blues saxophonist

Raise the urinals.

professional baseball player & announcer