Subject: Sports (Page 113)

I'm broke and I'm back.

American football player
Football Sports

People don't know this but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant; I came down with hepatitis… the trainer injected me with it.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor
Activities Baseball Health Sports

You know you're on the Senior Tour when your back goes out more than you do.

professional golfer
Golf Sports

I’ll be sad to go, and I wouldn’t be sad to go; it wouldn’t upset me to leave St. Louis, but it would upset me to leave St. Louis; it’s hard to explain. You’ll find out one of these days, but maybe you never will.

Canadian-born American hockey player
Misspokements Sports

I quit coaching because of illness and fatigue; the fans were sick and tired of me.

Canadian hockey player
Hockey Sports

Watching an America's Cup race is like watching grass grow.

(1885 – 1933) columnist & writer
Sports

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

When you’re older than the manager and the general manger, that’s not a good sign.

American baseball player
Age Baseball Sports

One time, I got pulled over at four a.m.; I was fined seventy-five dollars for being intoxicated and four-hundred for being with the Phillies.

(1935 – ) American baseball player, sportscaster, comedian & actor
Baseball Driving Sports

No captain with all the hindsight in the world can predict how the wicket is going to play.

British sports commentator
Misspokements Sports

80 percent of the balls that don’t reach the hole, don’t go in.

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

I'd rather be a lamppost in Denver than the mayor of Philadelphia.

American professional boxer
Boxing Insults Places Sports

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Auto racing Sports

My problem is I lose too many one-run games – 10-9, 8-7.

American baseball pitcher
Baseball Sports

Earnie hit me so hard, it shook my kinfolk back in Africa.

(1942 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

Golf can best be defined as an endless series of tragedies obscured by an occasional miracle.

Golf Sports

The amount of wind will vary inversely with the number and experience of the people you take on board.

Murphy’s Laws Sports

Mike Tyson's not all that bad. If you dig deep … dig real deep, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, deep, deep, go all the way to China … I'm sure, you'll find there's a nice guy in there.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing 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

He's standing there making a sitting target of himself.

English boxing manager & trainer
Boxing Misspokements Sports

To win, you've got to put the ball in the macramé.

American basketball player
Basketball Sports