Subject: Sports (Page 103)

The team has come along slow but fast.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Owww… it caught ‘em right in the pants area.

(1958 – ) Canadian hockey player & announcer

If you had come with me, you could be the principal of a high school by now.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

You might be a redneck if… you think watching professional wrestling is foreplay.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

I’m having problems with my putting; but it’s the puttee, not the putter.

professional golfer

Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.

English former football player & manager

These ball boys are marvellous; you don’t even notice them; there’s a left-handed one over there that I noticed earlier.

Tennis commentator

First triple I ever had.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

Hole-In-One: An occurrence in which a ball is hit directly from the tee into the hole on a single shot by a golfer playing alone.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

(1803 – 1857) English writer

Three things can happen when you put a [foot]ball in the air – and two of them are bad.

(1915 – 1987) American football player and coach

It's like Christmas, except it's warmer.

American baseball player

A mediocre player will sink to the level of his or her opposition.

His nerves, his memory… and I can’t remember the third thing.

(1942 – ) American professional golfer

Come on Sandy, baby, loosen up, you’re too tight.

American football player

When I was losing, they called me nuts; when I was winning they called me eccentric.

(1928 – 2001) American basketball coach

Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.

(1925 – 1990) Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager

He enjoys that perfect peace, that peace beyond all understanding, which comes at its maximum only to the man who has given up golf.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist