Subject: Sports (Page 105)

It was strange. The only English words I saw were Sony and Mitsubishi.

American baseball player
Baseball Communication Language Misspokements Sports

I used to play golf with a guy who cheated so badly that he once had a hole in one and wrote down zero on his scorecard.

professional golfer
Characteristics Golf Honesty Sports

It was the toughest seven-man zone we faced all year.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
Basketball Sports

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

professional baseball player
Baseball Golf Sports

In my prime I could have handled Michael Jordan; of course, he would have been only 12 years old.

American basketball player & coach
Basketball Sports

Water holes are sacrificial waters where you make a steady gift of your pride and high-priced balls.

(1916 – 2008) American professional golfer
Golf Sports

You can tell that you’re in trouble when you feel the air on the back of your neck instead of in your face.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

One rule I had was make your best pitch and back up third base; that relay might get away and you’ve got another shot at him.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

As a person gets older he doesn't get faster. Our quarterback will run from fright or lack of protection.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

If a caddie can help you, you don't know how to play golf.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter
Golf Sports

The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.

American professional golfer
Golf Sports

It was gone before it got outta here; it was going that fast.

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

There are rough players and there are dirty players. I'm rough and dirty.

Slovak-born Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong – but that’s the way to bet.

Activities Murphy’s Laws Sports

Chip Shot: A short, low approach shot that gets a player into position for one or more missed puts.

Definitions Golf Sports

If you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager
Baseball Sports

My handicap is that I don’t have a big enough beer cooler for the back of my golf cart.

professional football player
Golf Misspokements Sports

If I play badly I’ll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I’ll break a guy’s leg to win, I don’t care. Afterward I say, ‘Yeah, all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.'

Canadian hockey player
Conflict Fights Hockey Sports

It's funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan, it's when you realize that your wife left you in May.

(1922 – ) English comedy writer & television presenter
Sports

This series has been swings and pendulums all the way through.

British sports commentator
Misspokements Sports

A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.

(1945 – ) American humorist (co-founder of National Lampoon)
Golf Sports