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 |  |  | #10961 |  | Two brothers, Mort and Bill, like to sail.  While Bill has a great deal of experience, he certainly isn't the rigger Mort is.
 
 |  |  |  | #10962 |  | Two golfers were being held up as the twosome of women in front of them whiffed shots, hunted for lost balls and stood over putts for what seemed
 like hours.
 "I'll ask if we can play through," Bill said as he strode toward
 the women.  Twenty yards from the green, however, he turned on his heel
 and went back to where his companion was waiting.
 "Can't do it," he explained, sheepishly.  "One of them's my wife
 and the other's my mistress!"
 "I'll ask," said Jim.  He started off, only to turn and come back
 before reaching the green.
 "What's wrong?" Bill asked.
 "Small world, isn't it?"
 
 |  |  |  | #10963 |  | We was playin' the Homestead Grays in the city of Pitchburgh.  Josh [Gibson] comes up in the last of the ninth with a man on and us a run behind.  Well,
 he hit one.  The Grays waited around and waited around, but finally the
 empire rules it ain't comin' down.  So we win.  The next day, we was disputin'
 the Grays in Philadelphia when here come a ball outta the sky right in the
 glove of the Grays' center fielder.  The empire made the only possible call.
 "You're out, boy!" he says to Josh.  "Yesterday, in Pitchburgh."
 -- Satchel Paige
 
 |  |  |  | #10964 |  | When he got in trouble in the ring, [Ali] imagined a door swung open and inside he could see neon, orange, and green lights blinking, and bats
 blowing trumpets and alligators blowing trombones, and he could hear snakes
 screaming.  Weird masks and actors' clothes hung on the wall, and if he
 stepped across the sill and reached for them, he knew that he was committing
 himself to destruction.
 -- George Plimpton
 
 |  |  |  | #10965 |  | When I'm gone, boxing will be nothing again.  The fans with the cigars and the hats turned down'll be there, but no more housewives and little men in
 the street and foreign presidents.  It's goin' to be back to the fighter who
 comes to town, smells a flower, visits a hospital, blows a horn and says
 he's in shape.  Old hat.  I was the onliest boxer in history people asked
 questions like a senator.
 -- Muhammad Ali
 
 |  |  |  | #10966 |  | When in doubt, lead trump. 
 |  |  |  | #10967 |  | Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything. 
 |  |  |  | #10968 |  | Winning isn't everything.  It's the only thing. -- Vince Lombardi
 
 |  |  |  | #10969 |  | Woman:      "Is Yoo-Hoo hyphenated?" Yogi Berra: "No, ma'am, its not even carbonated."
 
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