Subject: Sports (Page 102)

He can run, but he can't hide.

(1914 – 1981) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

Golf is the only game in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn one a reputation for bad sportsmanship.

Irish journalist & author
Golf Sports

You guys lineup, alphabetically by height.

football coach
Misspokements Sports

Nobody knows this [yet], but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

It looks like a one armed man trying to wrestle a snake in a phone booth.

(1958 – ) Irish professional golfer & commentator
Golf Sports

I play in the low 80's. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.

(1902 – 1971) American comedian & singer
Golf Heat Science/Weather 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

Tommy Smith wasn’t born, he was quarried.

Scottish football player & manager
Sports

That’s the one with all the ‘No Passing’ signs.

Basketball Sports

Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

Baseball Murphy’s Laws Sports

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me; I want all the kids to copulate me.

professional baseball player
Misspokements Sports

I won't say Wilt Chamberlain is the strongest man I've ever known, but when he wipes the sweat off his brow, people in the balcony get a bath.

basketball coach
Basketball Sports

Street hockey is great for kids. It’s energetic, competitive, and skillful… and best of all it keeps them off the street.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Misspokements Sports

I’m going to send the injured reserve players out for the toss next time.

professional football coach
Football Misspokements Sports

We can’t win at home… we can’t win on the road; as general manager, I just can’t figure out where else to play.

(1941 – ) American basketball executive
Basketball Misspokements Sports

I feel like I’m the best, but you’re not going to get me to say that.

professional football player
Football Misspokements Sports

The game is too long, the season is too long and the players are too long.

American basketball executive
Basketball Sports

I'd never buy my girl a watch… she's already got a clock over the stove.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
Basketball Sports Things

Absentee: A missing golfing peg.

Definitions Golf Sports

I’m having problems with my putting; but it’s the puttee, not the putter.

professional golfer
Golf Sports