Subject: Sports (Page 81)

Normally in Chicago, you always have some kind of weather.

It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air.


Villeneuve is now twelve seconds ahead of Villeneuve.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

This is lap 54; after that, it’s 55, 56, 57, 58.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator

Fortunately he is 22 years old, so his right wrist should be the strongest muscle in his body.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

skier

I wasn't talking to Holmes in there; every time I felt like saying something to him I found it hard because he kept putting his left hand in my mouth.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor

If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly; if they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick… same thing.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Buster Douglas went to bed as a 231-pound world champion and woke up as a 270-pound parade float.

American sports columnist

I wish I could remember everything I told him.

American baseball pitcher

It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

(1940 – ) Italian-American auto racer

I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match: “It's a fight to the finish” … that's a good place to end.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

A lot of the people who make these suggestions would have a hard time filling out the application forms to work at 7-Eleven.

baseball player

You guys don't know the difference between a football and a Mercedes-Benz.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach

If you’ve only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs… it’ll seem like forever.

hockey announcer

Cricket is baseball on valium.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

This year we plan to run and shoot. Next season we hope to run and score.

American basketball coach

I always thought the record would stand until it was broken.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

If anyone wants me tell them I'm being embalmed.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

It takes longer to learn to be a good golfer than it does to become a brain surgeon. On the other hand, you don't get to ride around on a cart, drink beer, eat hot dogs and stare at the cart girl's tits all day if you are performing brain surgery.

It’s not over yet.

British professional golfer & commentator