Subject: Sports (Page 110)

This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.

horse racing trainer & commentator

The audience are literally electrified and glued to their seats.

BBC commentator

We’ll be back after this word from Manufacturer’s Hangover.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi.

At least he can’t cheat on his score because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded.

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

Turner looks a bit shaky and unsteady, but I think he's going to bat on – one ball left.

John Conteh has a neck like a stately home staircase.

English boxer

Anytime you hold Dallas to a one touchdown, it's not all bad.

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager

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

A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.

American professional golfer

Rookie Wilson was candidate for Mookie of the Year.

(1922 – 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

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

English boxer

You can put that in one word… world class darts!

British sports commentator

Exciting plays occur only while you are watching the scoreboard or out buying a hot dog.

What makes him unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts.

American baseball manager

Glenn McGrath joins Craig McDermott and Paul Reiffel in a three-ponged prace attack.


It’s not Terry Holmes that Bradford needs – it’s Sherlock.

Rugby coach

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

(1922 – ) American baseball player & manager

Businessman: One who talks golf all morning at the office, and business all afternoon on the links.

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter, that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit.

American baseball player & commentator