Subject: Sports (Page 120)

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

American basketball coach & executive
Education Football School Sports

I could stand up in the seat and not hit my head.

American auto racer
Auto racing Autos Sports Things

I threw the kitchen sink at him, but he went to the bathroom and got his tub.


Sports

Cricket is baseball on valium.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor
Baseball Sports

You used to think if the score was 5-0, he'd hit a five-run home run.

professional baseball player
Baseball Sports

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

American basketball player
Basketball Sports

There is water in every lane, so it is OK.

Australian swimmer
Sports

Earnie Shavers could punch you in the neck and break your ankle.

(1950 – ) American boxer & actor
Boxing Sports

Mike Tyson dropped me and when I looked up, the count was on five. I said to myself, ‘Damn, whatever happened to one to four.’

American boxer
Boxing Sports

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts; our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

(1919 – 2000) Canadian prime minister & politician
Canada Hockey Places Science/Weather Sports

The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field… no, wait a minute… it’s ball one… low and outside.

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

If hockey fights were fake, I'd be in more of them.

professional hockey player
Fights Hockey Sports

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

American football coach
Activities Education Football Misspokements School Sports

You can’t lose an old golf ball.

Golf Murphy’s Laws Sports

I'm not into sports. If someone told me I had athlete's foot, I'd say that's not my foot!

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian
People Self 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

Frank Bruno has a chin of such pure Waterford crystal; it gives rise to the old adage that people who live in glass jaws shouldn't throw punches. The biggest danger in fighting Bruno is that you might get hit by flying glass.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
Boxing Sports

Biologically, I'm 10; chronologically, I'm 33, but in hockey years, I'm 66.


Age Hockey Sports

You're a liar. There ain't no “Hotel Episode” in Detroit!

professional baseball player
Misspokements Sports

George Chuvalo's best punch is a left cheek to the right glove.

American sportswriter
Boxing Sports

George Foreman can knock down an oak tree, but oak trees don't move.

American boxing trainer
Boxing Sports