Subject: Sports (Page 19)

The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off!

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I didn't quit football because I failed a drug test, I failed a test because I was ready to quit football.

American football player

Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

We have deep depth.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it’s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

If the Bible has taught us anything – which it hasn't – it's that girls should stick to girl's sports like hot oil wrestling…

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

Go ahead and putt, you are not interrupting my conversation. 


Ghosts Take Derby

Boxing is just show business with blood.

English boxer

It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

(1940 – ) Italian-American auto racer

When I ask you what club to use, look the other way and don't answer.

(1912 – 2002) professional golfer

They said I was such a great prospect that they were sending me to a winter league to sharpen up.; when I stepped off the plane, I was in Greenland.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor

Throw strikes – home plate don't move.

American baseball player

My uncle always described an unforced error as his first marriage.

American journalist & tennis broadcaster

The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I am sorry Nick Faldo couldn't be here this week… he is attending the birth of his next wife.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

A lot of things run through your head when you’re going in to relieve in a tight spot… one of them was, “Should I spike myself?”

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

Frank Leahy was here [Notre Dame] for three years and went to war; I think sometimes that would be a welcome relief to get away from the pressures.

(1937 – ) football coach, sportscaster, author & speaker

Where I play, the greens always break toward the bar.

(1919 – 1991) American comedian & actor

If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?

(1919 – ) American sportswriter

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

British sports commentator