Subject: Sports (Page 16)

A tie is like kissing your sister.

(1915 – 1987) American football player and coach

I don't know what impressive is, but Joe was impressive tonight.

wife of fighter Joe Bugner

With one or two exceptions, colleges expect their players of games to be reasonably literate.

(1898 – 1971) English classical scholar & academic

You've got to think lucky; if you fall into a mud hole, check your back pocket – you might have caught a fish.

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach

You don't have to be a Harvard professor to manage baseball; in fact, I think you're better off having an IQ like mine.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager

You'll pardon me gentlemen if I make the fight short. I have a train to catch.

Canadian boxer

The A's leave after this game for Cleveland. It was only by a 13-12 vote that they decided to go.

Oakland A's announcer

He opened his legs and showed us what he’s got.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Give Chris a finger like I did and she’ll take the whole hand.

German professional tennis player

Some players would complain if they had to play on Dolly Parton's bedspread.

(1910 – 1983) professional golfer

They are like hot air dryers in public lavatories. They are a good idea, but take too long.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

Tell you what, you keep the salary and I'll keep me the cut.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

My wife made me a millionaire. Before she divorced me, I had three million.

professional hockey player

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

baseball player

Tonight, we're honoring one of the all-time greats in baseball, Stan Musial; he's immoral.

professional baseball player

The woods are full of long drivers.

American golf professional & coach

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

If the Cincinnati Reds were the first major league baseball team… who did they play?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

The best advice I can give for playing a ball out of water is – don't.

American professional golfer

Eating will now be an entirely new ball game. I might have to buy a new pair of trousers.

English jockey

It is committee meetings, called huddles, separated by outburst of violence.

(1941 – ) columnist, commentator & editor