Subject: Sports (Page 30)

In the hunt to buy the San Francisco Giants was George Shinn, owner of the Charlotte Harlots.

(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

You may be right, but it hasn’t reached his legs yet!

Scottish football player & manager

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

novelist, screenwriter & businessman

Three or four plane crashes and we're in the playoffs.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

I don't think he'd even be happy with ice cream right now.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

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

Play him, fine him, and play him again.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

(We) should be allowed to wear shorts; God almighty, (LPGA) women are allowed to wear ‘em, and we’ve got better legs than they do.

professional golfer

It actually giggles at you as it goes by.

baseball player

Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.

1913 – 1983) American college football coach

Cricket shouldn't be used as a political football.

English cricketer

When a fielder gets the pitcher in trouble, the pitcher has to pitch himself out of the slump he isn’t in.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I’m not sure whether I’d rather be managing or testing bulletproof vests.

American baseball player, manager & executive

He wants Texas back.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

I'd rather fight than score.

Canadian hockey player

I make no apologies for their absence… I’m sorry they’re not here.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

You have to wonder what kind of chemical reactions were taking place inside Walker’s head when he said these things.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

If cocaine were helium, the NBA would float away.

American sportscaster

He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Golf is a better game played downhill.

(1940 – ) professional golfer

Fast bowlers are quick. Just watch this – admittedly it is in slow motion.

Australian cricketer