Subject: Sports (Page 5)

I sight down my nose to shoot, and now my nose isn't straight since I broke it. That's why my shooting has been off.

American basketball player

You guys don't know the difference between a football and a Mercedes-Benz.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.


Golf is my real profession – show business pays my greens fees.

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

That’s cricket, Harry, you get these sort of things in boxing.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader and that puts another keg in the Cubs’ coffin.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

It couldn't have happened to a greater guy… well, yes, it could have happened to me.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

It would have been worse if we hadn't blocked the kick after Toronto's second touchdown.

Canadian hockey player

I love doubleheaders; that way I get to keep my uniform on longer.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

That’s what I call the ultimate laxative.

Canadian Prime Minister of Sports

Goaltenders are three sandwiches shy of a picnic. From the moment primitive man lurched erect, he survived on the principle that when something hard and potentially lethal comes toward you at great velocity, get the hell out of it's path.

Canadian hockey player

We’ll just have to see if they can keep this Cinderella slipper alive.

There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager

Fortunately he is 22 years old, so his right wrist should be the strongest muscle in his body.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

The final score after eight innings is Giants 3, Padres 2.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

The best way to die is to sit under a tree, eats lots of bologna and salami, drink a case of beer and blow up.

(1925 – ) American professional football player

I'm actually getting to sleep before I have breakfast.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer

(Leo) Durocher claims he was sacked forty times (by Larry MacPhail) in his five years as Dodger manager, but I was there and I can verify only twenty-seven.

American baseball executive

I’ll bet the hardest thing about prize fightin’ is pickin’ up yer teeth with a boxin’ glove on.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

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

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager