Subject: Sports (Page 100)

How would you know, Sean? When I was playing you were in your 3rd year of 8th grade?

Canadian hockey player & commentator
Hockey Sports

If they cut my bald head open, they will find one big boxing glove. That's all I am.

American boxing champion
Boxing Self Sports

Running a ball club is like raising kids who fall out of trees.

American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

Girls used to come up to me and say, “My sister loves you.” Now they say, “My mother loves you.”

baseball player
Age Baseball Old Sports

Why doesn’t the fattest man in the world become a hockey goalie?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Appearance Body Fat Hockey

Once a pitcher loses his fastball, he has to go to the garbage.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

I've never scored a hat-trick before… not even playing against my sister in the yard at home.

Australian rugby player
Sports

Notices are appearing at courses telling golfers not to lick their balls on the green.

Golf Sports

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager
Baseball Education Learning Sports

Golf is a game in which the ball lies poorly and the players well.

(1912 – 2003) American sports writer
Characteristics Golf Honesty Lies Sports

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

Baseball Basketball Football Hockey Sports

The main problem with keeping your eye on the ball is you have to take your eye off your opponent.

(1941 – ) poet, author, editor & anthologist
Golf Sports

The bell went ding and I went dong.

British boxer
Boxing

You're damn right I know where I am! I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the sh*t kicked out of me.

American boxer
Boxing Sports

When I was a kid, I wanted to play baseball and join the circus. With the Yankees, I've been able to do both.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

I had some bad days in the field… but I didn’t take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way.

professional baseball player & manager
Baseball Sports

Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.

(1924 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

The wrong quarterback is the one that’s in there.

Football Murphy’s Laws Sports

Some people have a chip on their shoulder; Billy has a whole lumberyard.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
Baseball Characteristics Sports

I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as ‘winter.’

American writer
Sports

I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.

(1929 – ) American baseball player who had a well-publicized bipolar disorder
Baseball Conflict Fights Sports