Subject: Sports (Page 38)

We're right next to Mile High Stadium. I'm no rocket scientist, but… uh… [smile]

Canadian hockey player

Jack Del Rio and myself are very similar except he's really good looking and was a great player. Other than that we're very similar.

American football coach

I don’t want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win.

professional basketball player

We had a very scientific system of bringing in relief pitchers. We used the first one who answered the phone.

American baseball pitcher & pitching coach

So many of [English sporting promoter] Barry Hearn's boxers end up in the hospital; he should sell his limousine and buy an ambulance.

British boxer

We're looking forward to building the type of team the Rangers are able to buy.

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager

Dead Golfer Plays His Best Round

My golf is improving… yesterday I hit the ball in one!

My dad once said that you meet a much nicer class of person there, but I'm not sure.

British auto racer

He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts.

(1919 – ) American sportswriter

Skiers view snowboarders as a menace; snowboarders view skiers as Elmer Fudd.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

I’m not fat.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

The new asphalt is like putting a tuxedo on a rattlesnake.

American auto racer

‘Deuce’ is used so you don't have to count so high.

(1937 – ) comedian & television actor

Putting allows the touchy golfer two to four opportunities to blow a gasket in the short space of two to forty feet.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer

I'd take five [former player] Milt Schmidts, put my grandmother in the nets and we'd beat any team.

Former NHL referee

I'm just a normal Aussie guy who likes a smoke and a drink. I wish they'd had the final between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. I might have won.

Australian long jumper

You're damn right I know where I am! I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the sh*t kicked out of me.

American boxer

Capece is kaput.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me; I want all the kids to copulate me.

professional baseball player

As I remember it, the bases were loaded.

professional baseball player