Subject: Sports (Page 27)

Putting an ex-fighter in the business world is like putting silk stockings on a pig.

boxing manager, trainer & cornerman

It' a once-in-a-lifetime thing that only happens every so often.

American football player

No matter how bad you are playing, it is always possible to play worse.

I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer

Yeah… it’s called defense, I mean I wouldn't know anything about it personally but I've heard about it through the grapevine.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Two kinds of American football players ain't worth a damn: one that never does what he's told and the other that does nothing but what he's told.

(1923 – 2013) American professional football coach

Speed has never killed anyone – suddenly becoming stationary… that’s what gets you.

English broadcaster, journalist & writer

His left wrist is so strong that he’d knock his own teeth out if he didn’t brush them right-handed.

American journalist & tennis broadcaster

Dracula and LSU football are at their best after the sun goes down.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

It looks like he has a divot over each ear.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

It's like my ex-wife… 21 different personalities and seven of them hated me.

American football coach

They're why the Hubble telescope is pointed away from the earth.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

It actually giggles at you as it goes by.

baseball player

The series is already won, but I don’t know by which team.

professional baseball player

Every car has a lot of speed in it. The trick is getting the speed out of it.

American auto racer

The Yankees don’t pay me to win every day, just two out of three.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

In my sport the quick are too often listed among the dead.

Scottish auto racer

Gretzky knows it time to retire now — he's finally slow enough to get hit by Luke Richardson.

American sportswriter

Send ‘im’ down a piano, see if ‘e can play that!

Stephen Gascoigne (1878 – 1942) Australian sports fan & heckler

If Marc Bulger throws an interception in Sun Devil Stadium and nobody is there to see it, is it still an interception?

American sports writer

The referee is the most important man in the ring besides the two fighters.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion