Subject: Sports (Page 40)

Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow.

American hockey player & coach

If it's your brain, you'll be fine. That's the smallest organ in your body.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

… another dropped out when diarrhea slowed him to the point of elimination.

Cycling commentator

The best thing about baseball is that you can do something about yesterday tomorrow.

Venezuelan baseball player

Any umpire who claims he has never missed a play is… well, an umpire.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire

We can't win at home and we can't win on the road. My problem as general manager is I can't think of another place to play.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive

We play a man-to-man defense. Person to person sounds like a telephone call.

He’s the man of the hour at this particular moment.

(1931 – ) American boxing promoter

I miss the things like the camaraderie in the gym; I don’t miss being smacked in the mouth every day.

Irish professional boxer

It’s a lot harder than tennis. If I make a mistake, it’s like 0-15. In boxing, you let your head down once and you’re in the hospital.

American professional tennis player

I’m undisputed. There's no disputing that.

British and Canadian boxing champion

When Neil Armstong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object; I knew immediately what it was… that was a home run ball hit off me in 1933 by Jimmie Foxx.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

You don't hesitate with Michael, or you'll end up on some poster in a gift shop someplace.

American basketball player

Our strength is that we don’t have any weaknesses; our weakness is that we don’t have any real strengths.

College football coach

The only way that Miami will beat Florida St. is if they outscore them.

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

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

If a horse won’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it.

(1942 – ) American baseball player

I lost it in the sun!

professional baseball player

There aren't many secrets in coaching…. well, there's one secret: Get a guy like Warrick Dunn, throw him a screen pass and watch him run 52 yards with it.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

The Rangers…

Canadian professional hockey goalie

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist