Subject: Sports (Page 20)

I’ll probably take a little time off and go hide somewhere. We will be back. Maybe not this century, but we will be back.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

Speed, strength and the inability to register pain immediately.

American football player

He had better get married soon, because he's getting uglier every day!

Canadian hockey player

Boxing is built on bums. How else are you gonna know good from bad? How else is a good boy gonna get on top and get experience unless he fights bums? I tell ya, there's a shortage of bums.

Boxing manager & promoter

Most of my clichés aren’t original.

football coach

Muhammad Ali is Muhammad Ali and compared to him all other men are earthlings.

American boxing trainer

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong – but that’s the way to bet.

Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

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

That was a tremendous six. The ball was still in the air as it went over the boundary.

English cricketer

He now floats like an anchor, stings like a moth.

I only know how to play two ways: reckless and abandon.

American basketball player

When the last great scorer comes to mark against your name, it’s not whether you won or lost, but how many paid to see the game.

baseball executive

People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year; they don’t realize that most of us only make $500,000.00.

professional baseball player

On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama – I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.

American basketball coach

Speaking from memory, I don't know how many points Nelson Piquet has.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

He's the only guy I know who can go 4 for 3.

American baseball player

Show me a good loser, and Ill show you a loser.

(1913 – 1970) football coach

If it's your brain, you'll be fine. That's the smallest organ in your body.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Some people think football is a matter of life and death… I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

Scottish football player & manager

More than anyone else, he's (Hank Aaron) made me wish I wasn't a manager.

American baseball manager

I can see the sun okay, and that's 93 million miles away.

American baseball umpire