Getting Back Into Sports Mugs

"Are you sure you're ready to get back on the ice?"

"You think you can? Think again, mister. You know you can. Got that?"

Kid uses his violin as a golf club.

"There will be a winning team and a losing team. Are you OK with that?"

'What distance! Pity it wasn't the hammer!'

"I AM at my usual position."

I can't decide. Should I go to soccer camp 3 weeks in a row? Or soccer, then baseball then lacrosse camp? 3 soccers. Isn't overspecializing at his age bad? Possibly. But 3 different sports means�buying 3 different sets of expensive equipment. Right, He does have a mean corner kick.

"Did you know that when my mom played soccer, only the winner got a trophy?"

"I wanted to be a baseball player 'til I found out they send you to the showers."

I love your enthusiasm, girls, but we're not opening a can of whoop-ANYTHING.

Perils of the double play.

Good luck tonight, xoxo, Coach.

"Winning isn't everything, Josh. Not being the reason your team loses is everything."

"I hope you're good, Charlie. I've only played a couple of times."

'You do realize you're no longer a pro athlete and there is no preseason to work out the kinks, don't you?'

I like what I'm seein' out there. This could be our year Wikowski.

"Gracie, I'm proud of you. Your team lost, but you tried your best and that's all that counts."

'You play ball with me and I'll play ball with you!'

'Here we go again...'

"And the way you kids kick ass today will speak volumes about the leaders of tomorrow you will be."

'Billy! Set your homework aside and get down here. There's another basketball recruiter here to see you.'

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"When you put on the uniform, you surrender a part of yourself."

"We would have won if it hadn't been for the other team."

Future Wrestler

Football fans discuss a deceased manager: A giant, a legend, much loved. Didn't we sack him?

'We don't want to risk having any injuries during spring training.'

Olympics create interest in curling.

'It's all right, miss, I'm only loking for our cricket-ball!'

"We won again, and guess what? A Russian oligarch wants to buy us!"

"Well, dad. . . when I was a kid I got in trouble for trampling on the lawn or for beating up others. . . today, I get a lot of money for it!"

"Mine, I believe, is the Green Jacket."

'My knee's in rehab. This one's a loaner.'

'Yes, Haffner appears to be tiring...'

No wonder kickboxing seems so hard.