Subject: Sports (Page 4)

It hurt to even bump into him.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion

I am sorry Nick Faldo couldn't be here this week… he is attending the birth of his next wife.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

When the camera focuses on a male athlete he will spit, pick or scratch.

And there goes Juantorina down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.

BBC commentator

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can; relaxing your brain is fatal.

(1929 – ) English race car driver

Pose nude for Playgirl? … I wouldn't pose nude for Boxing News.

English boxer

The advantage of the rain is, that if you have a quick bike, there’s no advantage.

British motorcycle road racer

He [Magic Johnson] comes into the league with all that fancy stuff and they call it magic; I’ve been doing it for years and they call it schoolyard.

professional basketball player

The only way to stop Jim Brown was to give him a movie contract.

professional football player

I normally run the 40-yard dash in 4.9, but when a 280-pound guy is chasing me, I run it in 4.6.

American football player

I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

(1970 – ) American actor, producer & stand up comedian

Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.

Canadian hockey goalie & coach

So many of [English sporting promoter] Barry Hearn's boxers end up in the hospital; he should sell his limousine and buy an ambulance.

British boxer

Golf is not so much a sport as an insult to lawns.

The Hall of Fame ceremonies are on the 31st and 32nd of July.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

We have a great bunch of outside shooters; unfortunately, all our games are played indoors.

basketball coach

Jacques Lafitte is as close to Surer as Surer is to Lafitte.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Call them pros, call them mercenaries – but in fact they are just grown-up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all.

Canadian hockey player

If you take your eye off Gretzky, he'll bank it off your skate, your back, your helmet or your wife. I could hang a nickel in the net and he'd hit it every time.

Canadian hockey player

We got to practice a little bit. I want these guys to be bouncing around like a pogo stick on Viagra.

football coach

I never knew what top golf was like until I turned professional… then it was too late.

American professional golfer