Subject: Sports (Page 5)

Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

He (Gaylord Perry) should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

Because she is too damn ugly to kiss goodbye.

(1923 – 2013) American professional football coach

I’m not allowed to comment on lousy officiating.

professional football general manager

Being an umpire is like being a king… it prepares you for nothing.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire

I’m not fat.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

The racecourse is as level as a billiard ball.

Scottish football player

Auto racing began five minutes after the second car was built.

(1863 – 1947) automobile industrialist

When Charlie Finley had his heart operation it took eight hours…. seven just to find his heart.

professional baseball pitcher

Oi, leave our flies alone, Jardine. They’re the only friends you’ve got here.

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

It’s shattering when a player loses interest in camp. When you lose your interest in standing around eating steaks you lose everything.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

If I didn’t enjoy gloating so much, I wouldn’t do so many interviews.

American football coach

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

(1936 – ) novelist, essayist & columnist

I only have one goal in each stick.

Czech ice hockey player

We can’t win at home… we can’t win on the road; as general manager, I just can’t figure out where else to play.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

You can talk to a fade but a hook won’t listen.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

Handicap: An allocation of strokes on one or more holes that permits two golfers of very different ability to do equally poorly on the same course.

(1945 – ) American humorist (co-founder of National Lampoon)

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

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

What’s the toughest thing in a professional football game? … Its being the mother of the quarterback.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

college football coach