Duffy Daugherty

It was Michigan State football coach Duffy Daugherty who some believe first said, "A tie is like kissing your sister," to which George Brett added the corollary, "And losing is like kissing your grandmother with her...

•Tom Lasorda, Dodger manager, after the firing of Laker Coach Paul Westhead: "I got nervous the other day when a friend said he saw Fernando Valenzuela in a restaurant with Magic Johnson."

Here is what happens when you let Russians, even Russian chess grand masters, loose in France. Some 19-year-old blonde with marron eyes comes along, and the grand masters get these extremely silly bourgeois looks and...

•Steve Patterson, Cleveland Cavalier reserve forward: "Just think, in 20 years I'll be the answer to the sports trivia question, 'Who played center for UCLA between the careers of Lew Alcindor and Bill Walton?' "

Or how to approach the professionals is what the game was all about in Lubbock, where the All-Stars warmed up to meet the Dolphins