playing cricket for hard cash

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

I wanted to have a career in sports

I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give it up. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football. And I have 20-20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.

The more you sweat in practice

The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.

One day of practice is like one day of clean living

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

We are going to conquer

A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the first person plural. We. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word "I" when you're in a group makes things complicated.

Sweaty team-mates

I would have thought that the knowledge that you are going to be leapt upon by half-a-dozen congratulatory, but sweaty team-mates would be inducement not to score a goal.

October is not only a beautiful month

October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football.

Prize fighters can sometimes read and write

Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start - but they can't when they finish.

Boxing is like a ballet

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

I don't know

I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf.

Aren't we all?

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

Men forget everything

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.

Money I'm making

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.

World Series checks meant something

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

Just don't care which side wins

The trouble with referees is that they Just don't care which side wins.

We didn't lose the game

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

Favorite sport in the Olympics

I think my Favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter.

Professional athletes should be role models

I don't believe Professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out." Parents have to take better control.

Fewer rules

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

Playing billiards or hitting a ball

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.