They Said It

? Sonny Liston, declaring that if he had to do it over again he would never be a boxer: "I'd like being a doctor or a lawyer. The doctor and the lawyer still get paid, no matter what. A doctor can kill you, he still gets paid. A lawyer can let you get put in jail for 20 years, he still gets paid. There's no way those guys can lose."

?O. A. (Bum) Phillips, San Diego Charger assistant coach, on the number of football game films he watches in a season: "If you could lose weight in your eyeballs, I'd drop 30 pounds."