Subject: Sports (Page 11)

He's the second-best goalie on the ice.

Canadian hockey coach

Brendan Foster, by himself, with 20,000 people.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Baseball players are smarter than [American] football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the pitch?

American baseball pitcher

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

What’s one more torpedo in a sinking ship?

American football player

Our offense is like the Pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

American basketball player

I know my players don't like my practices, but that's OK, because I don't like their games.

Canadian hockey coach, general manager & commentator

Most football players are temperamental… that’s 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

professional football player

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you.

American baseball player

I miss the things like the camaraderie in the gym; I don’t miss being smacked in the mouth every day.

Irish professional boxer

When you the man who beat the man who was the man… well, then you ‘The Man.’

American boxing champion

Squash – that’s not exercise, it’s flagellation.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

On a golf course, Jack had the hands of a violinist; that was fair, because as a violinist, Jack had the hands of a golfer.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer

[My] career was sputtering until [I] did a 360 and got headed in the right direction.

professional basketball player

You’ll never make a footballer while ever your arse points to the ground.

English football player & manager

Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head… no harm done.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

First triple I ever had.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

(1943 – ) comedian & actor