Subject: Sports (Page 123)

Baseball is a game which consists of tapping a ball with a piece of wood, then running like a lunatic.

Baseball Sports

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(1922 – 2014) American baseball player & announcer
Baseball Misspokements Sports

For those of us who are baseball fans and agnostics, the [Baseball] Hall of Fame is as close to a religious experience as we may ever get.

American author
Baseball Sports

There's a deep fly ball… Winfield goes back, back… his head hits the wall… it's rolling towards second base.

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

Baseball owners have moral scruples against taking any man’s dollar when there is a chance to take a dollar and a quarter.

(1905–1982) American sportswriter
Baseball Money Sports

We can’t win at home. We can’t win on the road. I don’t know where else we can play.

Canadian hockey coach, general manager & commentator
Hockey Sports

I always thought the record would stand until it was broken.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Baseball Sports Yogi-isms

The Royal Hong Kong Club caddies hit the nail on the head; their term for golf – "Hittee ball, say damn."

Golf Sports

I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English.

(1935 – ) Puerto Rican professional golfer
Golf Language Sports

There is no movement in the golf swing so difficult that it cannot be made even more difficult by careful study and diligent practice.

Anglo-Irish golfer
Golf Sports

I have a lifetime contract. That means I can't be fired during the third quarter if we're ahead and moving the ball.

(1937 – ) football coach, sportscaster, author & speaker
Football Sports

The only man I've ever known who could strut sitting down.

(1860 – 1931) American baseball writer & humorist
Baseball Sports

The kid looks good in his first game.

(1928 – ) Canadian professional ice hockey player
Hockey Sports

I’ve won at every level, except college and pro.

American basketball player
Basketball Misspokements Sports

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

(1926 – ) English sports commentator
Colemanballs Misspokements Sports

I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league.

Australian football player
Football Misspokements Sports

To Dallas Cowboys President Tex Schramm: You're one of the two most efficient organizations in the 20th century.

Schramm: What's the other?

Cook: The Third Reich.

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

Hmm, 600 games? What does it mean? It means I’m that much closer to getting fired.

Canadian hockey player & coach
Hockey Sports

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing – but none of them serious.

English professional boxer
Boxing Misspokements Sports

Muhammad Ali was on a plane when a stewardess asked him to fasten his seat belt. Ali told the lady: Superman don't need no seat belt.
The stewardess told the champ: Superman don't need no plane!

(1942 – ) American boxing champion
Boxing Sports

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

skier
Misspokements Sports