Subject: Sports (Page 122)

I can tell you it’s a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right through.

New Zealand rugby player & commentator
Misspokements Sports

Behind every good decathlete, there's a good doctor.

American Olympic decathlon champion
Misspokements Sports

If I had cleared the trees and drove the green, it would've been a great shot.

(1912 – 2002) professional golfer
Golf Sports

[boxing promoter] Bob Arum is one of the worst people in the western hemisphere. I don't know the eastern hemisphere very well, but I suspect he'd be one of the worst people there too, if he went.

boxing manager & trainer
Boxing Insults Sports

Golf: A pastime that gives people cooped up in the office all week a chance to lie and cheat outdoors.

Definitions Golf Sports

A fast body-contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.


(1897 – 1976) American novelist, short story & sports writer
Hockey Sports

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child; just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

(1932 – 2009) author, poet & critic
Golf Honesty Insults Intelligence Sports

The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running.

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

The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name… and they say golf is a quiet game.

Golf Sports

I told them sandwiches.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Entertainment Food/Drink Sports Television

Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.

(1958 – ) Canadian hockey player & announcer
Hockey Sports Work

I’ve never been swimming, and that’s because it’s never been more than half an hour since I last ate.

(1967 – ) American comedian, actor, radio personality & author
Activities Eating Food/Drink Sports

No comment.

professional basketball player
Misspokements Sports

I love boxing. Where else do two grown men prance around in satin underwear, fighting over a belt? … the one who wins gets a purse… they do it in gloves. It's the accessory connection I love.

American comedian
Boxing Sports

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

professional football player & coach
Beliefs Football Sports

Running a ball club is like raising kids who fall out of trees.

American baseball manager
Baseball Sports

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

(1770 – 1850) English Romantic poet
Golf Sports

Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.

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

Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.

American football player
Football Sports

Putting an ex-fighter in the business world is like putting silk stockings on a pig.

boxing manager, trainer & cornerman
Boxing Occupations Sports

You only have to bat 1.000 in two things—flying and heart transplants; everything else, you can go four in five.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator
Sports