Subject: Sports (Page 69)

Street hockey is great for kids. It’s energetic, competitive, and skillful… and best of all it keeps them off the street.

Canadian hockey player

The day I got a hit off Sandy Koufax was when he knew it was all over.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager

He can run, but he can't hide.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion

Three things can happen when you put a [foot]ball in the air – and two of them are bad.

(1915 – 1987) American football player and coach

It gets late out there early.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by an occasional miracle.

Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.

(1902 – 1971) American comedian & singer

Come on Sandy, baby, loosen up, you’re too tight.

American football player

When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando Wooldridge, it's a coach's dream – X vs O.

American basketball player

No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager

Fairway: The well-kept and seldom used portion of a golf course.

Do you know what I love most about baseball? … the pine tar, the resin, the grass, the dirt… and that’s just in the hot dogs.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

Remember: Super Bowl is the biggest day of the year for pizza delivery… so no matter what happens in the game, Peyton Manning wins.

(1974 – ) American comedian & impressionist

Every day two million Americans play tennis and one million of them lose.

American tennis player, instructor & broadcaster

I believe in higher education… you know, 6'8", 6'9", 6'10."

I heard Tonya Harding is calling herself the Charles Barkley of figure skating; I was going to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized I have no character.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

The A's leave after this game for Cleveland. It was only by a 13-12 vote that they decided to go.

Oakland A's announcer

Tito Fuentes is safe at second with a triple.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

Because this is a title fight, I can have four people in the corner and I'll have an extra cut-man. I'll also have an extra stool, one for Vinnie to sit on, and the other to throw at him if he doesn't listen to me.

(1922 – ) boxing trainer & manager

Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Winning is better than the next worse thing.

American baseball pitcher