Subject: Sports (Page 94)

Because if it doesn't work out, I don't want to blow the whole day.

American football player

When I told my wife UConn would win the Big East tournament, she wanted to know why a team from Alaska got into the Big East tournament.

American sportswriter

What goes up must come down.  But don't expect it to come down where you can find it.

(1939 – ) comedian, actress, writer & producer

With the Cardinals everybody would be reading the business section to see what their stocks were doing. You get to this locker room (Pirates) in the morning and everybody is looking at the sports page to see if Hulk Hogan won.

baseball player

If England lose now, they will be leaving the field with their heads between their legs!

English cricketer

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

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Most of my clichés aren’t original.

football coach

Baseball, it is said, is only a game… true… and the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.

(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor

If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

Wally Dallenbach's like a kite without a tail out there.

American auto racer

80 percent of the balls that don’t reach the hole, don’t go in.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Louise Goodman to British racing driver Johnny Herbert: Johnny, it's started to rain, how will that affect the track?

Herbert’s reply: Well, it makes it wet usually.

British racing driver

His throw went absolutely nowhere near where it was going.

Australian cricketer & commentator

Hold when you're at home and don't hold when you're on the road.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

No, I don't fight anybody I played against in Juniors. I think everyone I played Juniors with is dead now.

Canadian hockey player & coach

We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.

(1931 – ) American baseball player & manager

The most overrated underrated player in baseball.

American writer

Raise the urinals.

professional baseball player & announcer

Some guys are inwardly outgoing.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

We get no respect. Everybody we play on the road has made us their homecoming game.

Indiana University football coach & sports commentator

I’ve seen better tennis playing in a tampon commercial.

(1991 – ) American actor, singer & screenwriter