Subject: Sports (Page 41)

Golf: A game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose

(1856 – 1924) 28th U.S. president & politician

Those trees seem to grow every year…

British professional golfer & commentator

Turner pulls into second with a sun-blown double.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

You know that creepy-looking guy you stare at two seats behind you, thinking, who would come to a movie by himself? That's me.

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Tee your ball high… the air offers less resistance than dirt.

(1940 – ) professional golfer

Golf is not so much a sport as an insult to lawns.

I've always felt we weren't physical enough on the back line. Now there's a no-parking sign in front of our net.

hockey general manager

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

Canadian hockey player, coach & general manager

Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

professional baseball player

The front wheel crosses the finish line, closely followed by the back wheel.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

Golfing excellence goes hand in hand with alcohol, as many an Open and Amateur champion has shown.

British golf writer & commentator

There is nothing wrong with the car except that it is on fire.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

If I’m on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast… if God wants to play through, let him.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

He can do it the hard way, get beat up for 12 rounds and end up in the hospital. Or, he can do it the easy way, get hit on the chin and go to sleep.

American boxer

I wish you were a statue and I were a pigeon.

Stephen Gascoigne (1878 – 1942) Australian sports fan & heckler

They do a lot of talking, but I'm not sure they actually understand each other.

Canadian hockey player

That slow motion doesn't show how fast the ball was traveling.

Australian cricketer & commentator

It must be the body. It’s chiseled out of marshmallows.

American hockey player

I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

(1970 – ) American actor, producer & stand up comedian

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

(1770 – 1850) English Romantic poet