Subject: Sports (Page 79)

Nice guys finish last.

(1906 – 1991) American baseball player, coach & manager

There are younger Aztec ruins.

sportswriter & newspaper columnist

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

You'll pardon me gentlemen if I make the fight short. I have a train to catch.

Canadian boxer

God's busy; they'll have to make do with me.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist

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

They are like hot air dryers in public lavatories. They are a good idea, but take too long.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

I’ve been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had a career.

(1956 – ) Czech American tennis player

He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.

(1909–1959) American boxing champion

Lennox Lewis has two chances of getting a rematch with McCall – no chance and slim. And slim has just left town.

(1931 – ) American boxing promoter

Once we were whining losers, but now we’re arrogant winners.

Buffalo Bills public relations man

I never thought you could win a Pulitzer just for quoting Tommy Lasorda correctly.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter

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

American auto racer

Not everyone likes sports… Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

(1970 – ) American actor, producer & stand up comedian

The ability to witness two men stand toe to toe in the spirit of sportsmanship and pummel each other into insensibility is what separates us from the animals.

(1938 – ) American actor

You've got to come in with more than a left hook and a bad haircut to beat Lennox Lewis.

British and Canadian boxing champion

Career highlights?… I had two; I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.

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

I wouldn’t give him a high fastball or a fast highball.

(1925 – 2005) American baseball player & manager

I’d like to help you, but you don’t drink.

professional baseball player & manager