Subject: Sports

This year we plan to run and shoot. Next season we hope to run and score.

American basketball coach
Basketball Sports

I don’t like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

George has three speeds… slow, stop, and wait a minute.

American boxing trainer
Boxing Sports

I have nothing to say, and I’ll only say it once.

Hockey coach
Hockey Misspokements Sports

Problem with [John] Wockenfuss getting on base is that it takes three doubles to score him.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

You run for 45 minutes, you train for an hour and a half, and the rest of the time you just hang out and talk tough.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

Well, there’s only one thing I can say after that over, and that’s to clap my hands.

British sports commentator
Misspokements Sports

One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.

(1926 – ) professional bowler
Golf Sports

They may have regained all 40 yards… in fact, they may have.

Football Misspokements Sports

The only good thing about playing for Cleveland is you don't have to make road trips there.

American baseball player
Baseball Places Sports

Little League baseball is a good thing ’cause it keeps the parents off the streets, and it keeps the kids out of the house!

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Children Parents Sports Yogi-isms

Your financial cost can best be figured out when you realize that if you were to devote the same time and energy to business instead of golf, you would be a millionaire in approximately six weeks.

(1924 – 2003) American comedian & actor
Golf Sports

I’m no different from anybody else with two arms, two legs, and 4,200 hits.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

We’ve lost our last eight matches. The only team that we have beaten is Western Samoa. It’s a good job we didn’t play the whole of Samoa!

Welsh rugby player
Misspokements Sports

I’ll be sad to go, and I wouldn’t be sad to go; it wouldn’t upset me to leave St. Louis, but it would upset me to leave St. Louis; it’s hard to explain. You’ll find out one of these days, but maybe you never will.

Canadian-born American hockey player
Misspokements Sports

Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him.

(1923 – ) English motorsport commentator
Auto racing Misspokements Sports

This boxer is doing what is expected of him, bleeding from his nose.

British sports commentator
Boxing Misspokements Sports

I’m not an athlete; I’m a professional baseball player.

professional baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

Harmon Killebrew has enough power to hit home runs in any park – including Yellowstone.

American professional baseball player, manager & executive
Baseball Sports

Never bet with anyone you meet on the first tee who has a deep suntan, a 1-iron in his bag, and squinty eyes.

professional golfer
Golf Sports

Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

Baseball Murphy’s Laws Sports