Getting Back Into Sports Mugs

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

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

Kid uses his violin as a golf club.

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

"I AM at my usual position."

"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."

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!'

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

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

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'Here we go again...'

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

"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?

Olympics create interest in curling.

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

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

"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!"

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

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

"I have goals in life. Just last week I scored three goals!"

'We may be 0-10, but I think we can sue ourselves to an 8-2 record.'