Subject: Sports (Page 105)

A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.

(1922 – ) American baseball player & manager
Baseball Sports

When Lee Trevino and Jack Nicklaus come in, I'll caddie for Jack.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer
Golf Sports

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

(1917 – 1963) 35th U.S. president
Golf Sports

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

Canadian hockey player & commentator
Hockey 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

Any umpire who lasts five years in the minor leagues deserves to be immortalized; any umpire who lasts ten or more years in the minors deserves to be institutionalized.

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

The place was cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

professional baseball player
Baseball Hockey Sports

The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals.

American author & runner
Sports

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

American writer
Golf Sports

Our first priority was staying alive. Our second was stopping the puck.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

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

professional baseball player
Baseball Sports

He shortened my career having to chase him around the ice all the time.

Canadian ice hockey player & coach
Hockey Sports

A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing.


Sports

There’s a shot up the alley… oh, it’s just foul.

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

People say I'll be drafted in the first round, maybe even higher.

American football player
Football Sports

The new Haitian baseball can’t weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

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

Larry Lintz steals second standing up… he slid, but he didn’t have to.

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

In the Moscow Olympics Lasse Viren came in fifth and ran a champion’s race.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

Stevie Wonder could make one of 23 shots.

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

I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston's freeways.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

I don’t think we’re the oldest battery, but we’re certainly the ugliest.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Baseball Yogi-isms