Subject: Sports (Page 26)

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion

It shows what you can accomplish if you stay up all night drinking whiskey all the time.

Restaurant owner

Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

basketball coach

Football is easy, if you're crazy as hell.

American football player

Handicapped Golfer: The man playing his boss.

They can say what they want, but playoff hockey is a whole other ballgame.

His detractors faulted him for over managing and for giving more signs than the Coast Guard.

baseball writer

God invented football so grown men would have something to do between wars.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter

The way to make coaches think you’re in shape in the spring is to get a tan.

American baseball player

We’ve got to find a way to win; I’m willing to start cheating.

professional football player

Winning is always fun, but the car is more important.

Finnish hockey player

Jay Bell is 0-for-6 in this series with 10 homers and 52 RBIs.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Winning is better than the next worse thing.

American baseball pitcher

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

He won the bronze medal in the 1976 Olympics so he’s used to being out in front.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

If Lew could cook, I’d marry him.

baseball manager

Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

(1932 – 2009) author, poet & critic

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'm the best heavyweight in Canada and I'll still be the best when I'm dead seven years.

Canadian boxing champion

My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

Colin had a hard on in practice earlier, and I bet he wished he had a hard on now.

motor racing commentator