Subject: Sports (Page 108)

His face looks like a closed fist.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
Appearance Baseball Sports

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contract; I’ll win a pennant every year.

(1934 – 2010) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Activities Sports

Intensity is a lot of guys that run fast.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

I don't think his hands could take the abuse.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

The shoulder surgery was a success; the lobotomy failed.

(1939 – ) American football player & coach
Football Misspokements Sports

Hey, the offensive linemen are the biggest guys on the field, they're bigger than everybody else, and that's what makes them the biggest guys on the field.

(1936 – ) American football coach & television announcer
Football Misspokements Sports

This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.

American sports executive
Activities Basketball Sports

The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former, the ball is the missile, in the latter, men are the missiles

English schoolmaster, sexologist, anthropologist & sports journalist
Sports

I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I make the putt.

Spanish professional golfer
Golf Sports

You might be a redneck if… your high school basketball game got rained out.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality
Basketball People Rednecks Sports

I'll always remember the day I broke ninety. I had a few beers in the clubhouse and was so excited I forgot to play the back nine.

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

The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
Baseball Sports

If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third.

Los Angeles Dodgers’ manager
Baseball Sports

Penn State had less firepower than Sweden did in World War II.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator
Football Sports

Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel.

(1902 – 1971) American comedian & singer
Baseball Sports

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

(1961 – ) Canadian hockey player & owner
Hockey Sports

What happens to me next year will happen to me no matter what happens.

professional basketball player
Future Misspokements Sports

I’d be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

American baseball player
Baseball Misspokements Sports

If I survived the Marines, I can survive Ali.

American boxer
Boxing Sports

Howard Cosell would rather shave a wild lion with a dull razor than fight me. 

(1942 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports