Subject: Sports (Page 95)

This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.

American sports executive

A tough day at the office is even tougher when your office contains spectator seating.

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

Place-kickers aren't footballers, they're hired feet.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

They’re really keen on the strawberry flavored ones.

Australian basketball player

It just as easily could have gone the other way.

professional baseball player & manager

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

(1803 – 1857) English writer

In pro boxing, let's face it, the name of the game is how much you make – not how many honors won. Billy Walker was the most successful flop in history.

English boxing journalist & commentator

When they list the great things of the 20th Century, they’ll say, penicillin, Sophia Loren, jet travel and ESPN.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

Cricket is baseball on valium.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor

The current version of Buster Mathis [Jr.] boasts not just a Michelin man waist but an embonpoint thai would give him a better shot at starring in the next Wonderbra poster than winning a boxing title.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager

I didn’t drop my gloves. They were yanked off me.

professional hockey player

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years… or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Morcelli has four fastest 1500-meter times ever; and all those times are at 1500 meters.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator

I'd like to play Columbus. [of the International League]

American hockey player

Say Satch, tell me, was Abraham Lincoln a crouch hitter?

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

Tell you what, you keep the salary and I'll keep me the cut.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player

I've been big ever since I was little.

American football player

Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer

That’s what I call the ultimate laxative.

Canadian Prime Minister of Sports