Subject: Sports

You've got to come in with more than a left hook and a bad haircut to beat Lennox Lewis.

British and Canadian boxing champion

The black cloud is coming from the direction the wind is blowing. Now the wind is coming from where the black cloud is!

English cricketer & commentator

I think he knows all my tricks. Or the fact I don't have any tricks.

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive

My only feeling about superstition is that it’s unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

(1915 – 1987) American football player and coach

[Coach Vince] Lombardi treats us all the same… like dogs.

professional football player

I have a lifetime contract. That means I can't be fired during the third quarter if we're ahead and moving the ball.

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

He just can't believe what isn't happening to him.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

He’s on 90… 10 away from that mythical figure.

British sports commentator

You have to treat death like any other part of life.

American auto racer

With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running.

(1926 – 2016) American baseball player, announcer & television host

Those are the only balls you've touched all day!

Stephen Gascoigne (1878 – 1942) Australian sports fan & heckler

His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce.

American boxer

Son, nobody is half as good as Mickey Mantle.

baseball player

For those of you watching who do not have television sets, live commentary is on Radio 2.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times, I’m surprised I’m not diabetic; but I did have him off the canvas once… when he stepped over my body to leave the ring.

(1921 – ) American boxing champion

Giving Magic the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse James a gang, or Genghis Khan a horse.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

We've made a final offer. We hope [player] Ziggy Palffy will come to his senses. We have NO hope his agent will.

American player, coach & general manager

Impossible Lie: In golf, a ball that is in a position that is both completely obstructed by an immovable object and continuously observed by an incorruptible 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

I'd love to fight Gerry Cooney. But I have my price – 25 cents and a loose woman.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor