They Said It

•Ron Dose, Sioux City, Iowa policeman, after separating Sioux City and Waterloo brawlers in a United States Hockey League game: "It hurts when they step on your feet with those skates."

•Paul Cameron, Little Falls, Minn. high school star, asked what he was doing on a team that included Frank Wachlarowicz, Steve Bzdok, Jerry Januschka and Bruce Posch: "Oh, coach calls me Cameronski."

•Al Braverman, fight manager, reacting to a suggestion that Muhammad Ali might complain about his using a "foreign substance" on Chuck Wepner's face: "It's not a foreign substance. It comes from the United States."