Subject: Sports (Page 105)

Any minute now we will have the East German pole vault over the satellite.

British sports commentator

I’ve got a face made for radio.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire

Well, I guess I was just in the right place at the right time.

Dominican baseball player

I've got it made. I've got a wife and a TV set… and they're both working.

1922 – 2006) American boxing champion

He's skating like he's 36 again.

Canadian hockey player

The only way I'm going to get a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.

professional baseball player

This boxer is doing what is expected of him, bleeding from his nose.

British sports commentator

No matter how bad you are playing, it is always possible to play worse.

Everything was fine until I slid left and ran out of talent!

the 'father of drag racing'

Aww, don't worry Doc, if that happens, I can always come back as a forward!

Canadian hockey player

Sandy’s fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

He could hit better with a broken arm than we could with two good arms.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

The last time I played golf with President Ford he hit a birdie – and an eagle, a moose, an elk, an aardvark…

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

For the Leafs, there are two kinds of games: those they lose because of the officiating and those they win despite the officiating.

Ottawa Mayor

I don't know what these fellows are doing, but whatever they are doing, they sure are doing it well.

American professional tennis player

Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

(1932 – 2009) author, poet & critic

I was so bad, I couldn’t have driven Miss Daisy home.

baseball player

The lead is now 6.9 seconds… in fact, it’s just under 7 seconds.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I was so bad at it, [golf] they would have to check me for ticks at the end of the round because I’d spent about half the day in the woods.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Why doesn’t the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?


If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly; if they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick… same thing.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality