Subject: Sports (Page 34)

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

(1888 – 1931) American football player & coach

I can see them buying Mauer the city of Duluth.

baseball sports writer & analyst

The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level.

professional baseball player & executive

Short girls who take all the tall guys.

American professional tennis player

And here comes Mika Hakkinen, double world champion twice over.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

You win some, you lose some, you wreck some.

American auto racer

These people haven’t seen the last of my face. If I go down, I’m going down standing up.

American basketball player

The woods are full of long drivers.

American golf professional & coach

Haven't they suffered enough?

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

I lost it by default, not de-punch.

English boxer

Give each guy on the line an ax.

(1935 – 2012) American football player, sports announcer & actor

George Halas throws nickels around like man hole covers.

(1939 – ) American football player & coach

Any guy who would pass up a chance to see Sam Snead play golf would pull the shades driving past the Taj Mahal.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

Brundle is driving an absolutely pluperfect race.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

And Michael Schumacher just stood on his seat and pulled out something special.

British auto racer

Lunch is on me.

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

British Olympic decathlon champion

If Larry Holmes is the people's champion, then asparagus is the people's vegetable.

sportswriter

Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small area indoors and stuff the ball into a ring with Madonna's dress hanging on it.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

assistant trainer and cornerman of boxer Muhammad Ali

A well-adjusted man is one who can play golf as if it were a game.