Subject: Sports (Page 71)

I figured I'd find him sooner or later but I never did. I asked myself, "Where did he go?" I knew he was there because he kept hitting me.

British boxing champion

No, I had 999 times to get ready for it.

American baseball player

I told her they must be all sold out.

Canadian hockey player

Nah, I’m just a prizefighter.

(1919 – 1990) American boxing champion

I won't say Wilt Chamberlain is the strongest man I've ever known, but when he wipes the sweat off his brow, people in the balcony get a bath.

basketball coach

They're like two bulldogs eating lunch off a Brillo pad!

Canadian hockey player

In my sport the quick are too often listed among the dead.

Scottish auto racer

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

He just can't believe what isn't happening to him.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I had some bad days in the field… but I didn’t take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way.

professional baseball player & manager

He can’t decide whether to have his visor half open or half closed.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

I think they just got through marinating the greens.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

The only way to avoid hitting a tree is to aim at it.

Cricket is baseball on valium.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

Brooks [Robinson] never asked anyone to name a candy bar after him; in Baltimore, people named their children after him.

sports writer

You might be a redneck if… you think watching professional wrestling is foreplay.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

He was the only man I ever saw who ran his own interference.

professional football player & coach

Everyone is unhappy at times, even my wife. Only she doesn't get interviewed about it.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

I just wrap my arms around the whole backfield and peel 'em off one by one until I get to the ball carrier… him I keep.

professional football player