Subject: Sports (Page 116)

We lost some mighty good boys from last year because of paroles, but, crime being what it is, we've picked up some good ones since then, too.

basketball coach
Basketball Sports

Finley is going over to get a new piece of bat.

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

It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

(1940 – ) Italian-American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

We’re trying to accomplish in five games what in previous years it took 162 games to do.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

University: A modern school where football is taught.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Communication Definitions Education Football Language School

Well the frog men finally got Rosie.

(1925 – ) American professional football player
Football

There have been more cheap shots in this game than a Mexican cantina during happy hour.

Canadian hockey announcer
Hockey Sports

As a coach, you must remember that when you're on your way in, you're on your way out.

Canadian hockey coach & general manager
Hockey Sports

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals and three-run homers.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way.

professional football player & coach
Beliefs Football Sports

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill.

(1927 – 1996) columnist & humorist
Sports

Sure, as long as he ties a 56 lb. weight to each leg.

English boxing champion
Boxing Sports

Punt returns will kill you quicker than a minnow can swim a dipper.

(1924 – 2012) American football player & coach
Football Sports

Listen, ump… how can you sleep with the lights on?

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

He ran out of talent about halfway through the corner.

American auto racer
Auto racing Sports

Brian London possesses the most unbeautiful face – it looks as if it, at one time, fell apart and was reassembled by a drunken mechanic.

English broadcaster, journalist & author
Appearance Boxing Sports

He's been burning the midnight oil at both ends.

English sports commentator
Mixed metaphors Sports

The toughest call an umpire has to make is not the half-swing; the toughest call is throwing a guy out of the game after you blew the hell out of the play.

American baseball umpire
Baseball Mistakes Problems Sports

In the back of Hughes' mind must be the thought that he will dance down the piss and mitch one.


Sports Wordplay

The batsman’s is Holding, the bowler’s Willey.

cricket announcer
Misspokements Sports