Subject: Sports (Page 119)

I’m the football coach around here and don’t you remember it.

football coach
Misspokements Sports

My biggest problem in the big leagues is that I can't figure out how to spend forty-three dollars in meal money.

baseball player
Baseball Sports

I think he knows all my tricks. Or the fact I don't have any tricks.

(1969 – ) Canadian ice hockey player & executive
Hockey Sports

Kickers are like horse manure. They're all over the place.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

All the Padres need is a fly ball in the air.

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

I’ll have a cup of tea.

Kenyan runner
Sports

Walk him and face the next guy.

American baseball player
Baseball Sports

My only feeling about superstition is that it’s unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

(1915 – 1987) American football player and coach
Sports

When I was recruited at Auburn, they took me to a strip joint; when I saw those titties on Buffy, I knew that Auburn met my academic requirements.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality
Basketball Education School Sports

I don’t mean he missed him, but he just didn’t get him when he put the tag on him.

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

Stroke: Any forward movement of the golf club that is made with the intention of hitting and moving the ball and is observed by another golfer.

Definitions Golf Sports

Reporter: What did you think about the collective bargaining proposal?

Payton: (making $2,700,000 per year): People would have to cut their lifestyle, and they’d live like penny-pinchers.

professional football coach
Misspokements Money Sports

Fairway: The well-kept and seldom used portion of a golf course.

Definitions Golf Sports

If it comes down to taking care of my mother in her old age and taking care of my center fielder in his young age, I hope she understands.

Owner of the Seattle Mariners
Baseball Sports

I don’t like dogs… keep getting mustard on my catcher’s mitt.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Baseball Food/Drink Sports

I’m trying to kick your ass… in a nice way.

American professional tennis player
Sports

Capece is kaput.

(1923 – 2001) American football coach
Football Sports

Talking to a golf ball won't do you any good, unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off. 


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

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

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

I can airmail the golf ball, but sometimes I don't put the right address on it.

American professional golfer
Golf 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