On par?

His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.

Robin Williams

It was an ideal day for football

-- too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players 

Red Smith 

Inspiration?

The hardest part of skating is the ice.

Anonymous

Big night

Ah, the alleys . . . It's really a sensory experience, you know. The scent of Aqua Net on a beehive hairdo. The roar of polyester rubbing against old Naugahyde. The site of a cigarette stubbed out on a patty melt. All this plus the anticipation of placing your feet in shoes only seven thousand others have worn before you. 
Diane Chambers (Cheers)

May the better species win

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming.

John Steinbeck

You can too

Remember, anyone can juggle for a second.

John Alejandro King

I hate to advocate....

...drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

Hit me

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Robert Chambers

Stranger than truth

I read the newspaper avidly.
It is my one form of continuous fiction.

A. Bevan

TTD?

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Jane Yolen

A boy and his....

Television!
Teacher, mother, secret lover.

Homer Simpson

Shall we?

Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.

George Bernard Shaw

Too much of a good thing?

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

Louisa May Alcott.

After the Travers

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

Elbert Hubbard