Subject: Sports (Page 5)

I was like a pig with a wristwatch.

American auto racer

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist

We are not going to be any three-clouds-and-a-yard-of-dust team.

football coach

Gossage puts guys like me on his cereal for breakfast. He's the most intimidating pitcher I've ever seen.

baseball player

The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off!

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

We’ve got no-trade clauses. Nobody wants us.

Canadian hockey player

Yesterday Michael Phelps set an all-time Olympic record for most medals. Phelps has so much gold on his chest he's been asked to join the cast of 'Jersey Shore.'

(1963 – ) television host & comedian

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

(1931 – ) American boxing promoter

If God wants to produce the ideal golfer then He should create a being with a set of unequal arms and likewise legs, an elbow-free left arm, knees which hinge sideways and a ribless torso from which emerges, at an angle of 45 degrees, a stretched neck fitted with one color-blind eye stuck firmly on the left side.

golf author

You draw Xs and Os on a blackboard and that's not so difficult… I can even do it with my left hand.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

I always have this dream that the guy coming in last for diving is going to do a cannonball for our amusement. – Olympic Diving

(1974 – ) American stand-up comedian

Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager

Cale Yarborough would have to call a service station to get a tire changed, but he's as good as anyone who ever drove a race car.

American auto racer

I'll always remember this as the night Michael and I combined to score 70 points.

American basketball player

Auto racing began five minutes after the second car was built.

(1863 – 1947) automobile industrialist

It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

(1940 – ) Italian-American auto racer

I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand.

BBC commentator

There are only two plays that I know, Romeo and Juliet and put the damn ball in the basket.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

If lessons are learned in defeat, as they say, our team is really getting a great education.

American football coach

Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer