They Said It

?Pat Paolella, catcher on the American University baseball team, describing his ambition in life: "My idea of paradise is to be the bullpen coach for the Toledo Mud Hens, live in a trailer and go fishing with a big chaw of tobacco and ripple-sole shoes."

?Terry Kelleher, Everett (Wash.) Herald TV columnist, on John McEnroe's claim that John Lloyd is more popular than he is because Lloyd is married to Chris Evert: " McEnroe wouldn't be popular if he were married to Marie Osmond."

? Mike Flanagan, Baltimore Orioles' pitcher: "I could never play in New York. The first time I ever came into a game there, I got in the bullpen car and they told me to lock the doors."