FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: baseballcatchers.com

BASEBALL QUOTES

"Bob Gibson's the luckiest pitcher I've ever seen. . . .He always picks the night to pitch when the other team doesn't score any runs."
(Tim McCarver, catcher)

"God was never a catcher because, if He was, there would never have been a knuckle ball pitcher."
(Contributed by Captain Jack Kirby, U.S. Navy Dental Corps)

Mike Macfarlane, Kansas City Royals catcher, after K.C. beat the Oakland A's 3-1 on only one hit:
That was a maximization of a minimization of hits. April 27, 1992

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FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: telegraph.co.uk

BOXING QUOTES

" Lie down so I can recognise you"
Willie Pep, the American featherweight boxer, when asked by an old opponent if he remembered him

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"He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem"
Eddie Shaw, the boxing coach, on Herol "Bomber" Graham, the British light-middleweight

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"Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town"
Muhammad Ali on his comeback fight at Madison Square Garden, New York in 1971 against Joe Frazier. Smoking Joe knocked Ali down in the last round and won easily on points

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"I give them the head, choke them, hit them in the balls.You're fighting, not playing the piano, you know"
Fritzie Zivic, the dirtiest fighter ever known, who was never disqualified in 232 professional fights from 1931 to 1949

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"I'm so fast I can hit the light switch and be in bed before it is dark"
Muhammad Ali, the Louisville Lip, in his prime

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"You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the s*** knocked out of me"
American light heavyweight Willie Pastrano (when asked by the ring doctor if he knew where he was)

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"If you control it, you can make good use of it. But if you lose control, it will kill you"
Puerto Rican Jose Torres, the former world light-heavyweight champion, on the fear a boxer feels during a fight

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