Subject: Sports (Page 36)

My three best punches were the choke hold, the rabbit punch and the head butt.

American boxer

I guess I’d better send my fingers to Cooperstown.

baseball player

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Azinger is wearing an all black outfit: black jumper, blue trousers, white shoes and a pink tea-cosy hat.

British sports announcer

Skiing may be a winter activity, but some think of it as a fall sport.

Half of golf is fun; the other half is putting.

golf writer

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you.

American baseball player

The hockey lockout of 1994-1995 has been settled. They have stopped bickering… and can now get down to some serious bloodshed!

(1963 – ) television host & comedian

We all get heavier as we get older because there’s a lot more information in our heads.

professional basketball player

We estimate, and this isn’t an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

You drive for show, but putt for dough.

South African professional golfer

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him forf the entire weekend.


The stopwatch has stopped. It's up to God and the referee now. The referee is Pat Horan. God is God.

Irish Gaelic games commentator

Most ball games are lost, not won.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

1. Nothing is ever so bad it can't be made worse by firing the coach. 2. A free agent is anything but. 3. Whatever can go to New York will..

He scored hockey by the number of fights. If you lost seven to one, but won five fights, he figured you won the game.

Canadian businessman, sportsman & owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs

It looks like a one armed man trying to wrestle a snake in a phone booth.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

Since I didn't want to go round mugging old ladies or robbing banks, I took up boxing.

English boxer

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

American baseball player

Colleges spend more money on the promotion of the Heisman than the Pentagon spends on toilets.

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

The only thing I've noticed is that when I come into the locker room, they all bow.

(1956 – ) Czech American tennis player