Subject: Sports (Page 70)

For those of us who are baseball fans and agnostics, the [Baseball] Hall of Fame is as close to a religious experience as we may ever get.

American author

He should know better than that. He knows I only drink scotch.

Canadian professional hockey goalie

The New York Jets have been given permission to sell Girl Scout Cookies.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

They should call fishing what it really is… tricking and killing!

(1973 – ) American comedian

I don't have anywhere to put my elbows when I putt now.

professional golfer

I'd trade Larry Murphy for a shaved monkey who could skate and a bucket of pucks.

If a man can f**k and drive race cars… man… I mean, what else-is there?

American auto racer

In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan; of course, he would have been only 12 years old.

American basketball player & coach

You feel guilty telling the batters to go out there and get a hit. They look at you funny, as is if to say, 'you try it.‘

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager

But he was the worst dresser in organized baseball; he made Inspector Clouseau look like a candidate for Mr. Blackwell's list of best-dressed men.

American baseball pitcher

On the first day, Logie decided to chance his arm and it came off.

British sports commentator

He who has the fastest golf cart never has a bad lie.

In Montana, they renamed a town after an all-time great, Joe Montana. Well, a town in Massachusetts changed their name to honor my guy Terry Bradshaw – Marblehead.

American football player & commentator

Vicodin and vodka — the breakfast of champions.

(1918 – 1990) football coach

It is completely dead out there. I’ve been phoning myself up and disguising my voice just for a bit of interest.

English football player & manager

The older you get, the faster you ran as a kid.

professional football player & coach

The luge is the only Olympic event where you could have people competing in it against their will, and it would look exactly the same.

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor

Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

(1932 – 2009) author, poet & critic

God said to Faldo, as He once said to Nicklaus, "You will have the skills like no other." Then he whispered to Ballesteros, as he whispered to Palmer, "But they will love you more."

American sportswriter

He'll have a lot of fun. George will keep him in stitches.

boxing physician

The first time I see a jogger smiling, I’ll consider it.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director