Subject: Sports (Page 75)

Ball handling and dribbling are my strongest weaknesses.

professional basketball player

The highlight of my career?… in '67 with St. Louis, I walked with the bases loaded to drive in the winning run in an inter-squad game in spring training.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor

When I am right, no one remembers. When I am wrong, no one forgets.

American baseball umpire

Complaints About NBA Referees Growing Ugly

Why doesn’t the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Hey, some places this would be a foul!

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

Obviously a deer on the fairway has seen you tee off before and knows that the safest place to be when you play is right down the middle.

(1916 – 1987) television actor & comedian

All we need is a little bit of luck and we could explode.

British rugby coach

I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer

Our strength is that we don’t have any weaknesses; our weakness is that we don’t have any real strengths.

College football coach

Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Being named manager of the Seattle Mariners is like becoming the head chef at MacDonalds.

American sportswriter

My uncle always described an unforced error as his first marriage.

American journalist & tennis broadcaster

My clubs are well used, but unfortunately not used well.

I used to play golf with a guy who cheated so badly that he once had a hole in one and wrote down zero on his scorecard.

professional golfer

If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be the monkey.

American football defensive end

Golf is not a game, it’s bondage; it was obviously devised by a man torn with guilt, eager to atone for his sins.

Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer

Frank Bruno has a chin of such pure Waterford crystal; it gives rise to the old adage that people who live in glass jaws shouldn't throw punches. The biggest danger in fighting Bruno is that you might get hit by flying glass.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

If you take your eye off Gretzky, he'll bank it off your skate, your back, your helmet or your wife. I could hang a nickel in the net and he'd hit it every time.

Canadian hockey player

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian