Subject: Sports

Look at him (Bobby Richardson) – he doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t chew, he doesn’t stay out late, and he still can’t hit .250.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Characteristics Sports

Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

professional baseball player
Baseball Sports

Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

American football player
Football Sports

Golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator
Activities Golf Sports

Are you any relation to your brother Marv?

basketball player
Misspokements Sports

Give blood. Play hockey. 

Hockey Sports

The only thing Earl [Weaver] knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

The difference between being in a relationship and being in prison is that in prison they let you play softball on the weekends.

American stand-up comedian
Relationships Situations Sports

We’re going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

professional basketball player
Misspokements Sports

And now, coming into the game is the five-ton junior from Canton, Ohio.

Misspokements Sports

I had Bernard Taylor five rounds ahead going into their fifth round.

English professional boxer
Boxing Sports

If Mike Tyson gets any better, he’ll be hitting Lou Rawls while he sings the National Anthem.

American television personality
Boxing Sports

George McGinnis has got the body of a Greek god and the running ability of a Greek goddess.

American sportscaster
Basketball Sports

Maybe that will distract the Falcon quarterback.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

Sometimes Howard makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Insults Sports

Throwing people out of a game is like learning to ride a bicycle – once you get the hang of it, it can be a lot of fun.

(1937 – 1995) American Major League Baseball umpire
Baseball Sports

A good coach needs a patient wife, a loyal dog and a great quarterback, but not necessarily in that order.

(1927 – ) American football coach
Football Sports

Golf balls are attracted to water as unerringly as the eye of a middle-aged man to a female bosom.

(1927 – ) British journalist & author
Golf Sports

After all the years of punishment you've taken, you must be thinking about giving up pantomime.

(1952 – ) British barrister, comedy writer, and radio & television presenter
Boxing Sports

You feel guilty telling the batters to go out there and get a hit. They look at you funny, as is if to say, 'you try it.‘

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch, and one on the throttle.

auto racing commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports