Subject: Sports (Page 116)

He has a strike zone the size of Hitler’s heart.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
Baseball Sports

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

professional basketball player
Future Misspokements Sports

You out rebounded a dead man by one.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
Basketball Sports

I always have this dream that the guy coming in last for diving is going to do a cannonball for our amusement. – Olympic Diving

(1974 – ) American stand-up comedian
Sports

Have another donut you fat pig!

Canadian hockey player & general manager
Hockey Sports

Three things are bad for you: I can't remember the first two, but doughnuts are the third.

football coach
Food/Drink Football Health Sports

It’s the same as any other ball game you’ll remember as long as you live.

(1926 – 2016) American baseball player, announcer & television host
Baseball Sports

Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt; thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead.

(1929 – ) English middle-distance athlete, physician & academic
Sports

I'd have been more active in there, if only I'd been a little more sober.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.

1913 – 1983) American college football coach
Football Sports

And there goes Juantorina down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.

BBC commentator
Misspokements Sports

I play football. I’m not trying to be a professor. The tests don’t seem to make sense to me, measuring your brain on stuff I haven’t been through in school.

Football Misspokements Sports

God invented football so grown men would have something to do between wars.

(1929 – ) American author & sportswriter
Conflict Football Sports War

This players getting taller thing is getting out of hand. What we need to do is sink the baskets into the floor at each end of the court and recruit midgets.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
Basketball Sports

We estimate, and this isn’t an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind.

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

I'm always into a positive black image. Whenever Leon Spinks fights I always pray, 'Dear Lord, please don't let them interview Leon on TV.'

American television personality
Boxing People 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

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

(1926 – 2016) American baseball player, announcer & television host
Baseball Sports

I can’t really remember the names of the clubs that we went to.

American basketball player
Misspokements Sports

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

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